Using The Megaraid Cachecade Pro 2.0 Software - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Figure 218 CacheCade Virtual Drive Summary Dialog
9. Click Finish.
A confirmation message displays after the CacheCade virtual drive is successfully created.
The CacheCade drive icon appears next to the RAID controller in the left frame, in the MegaRAID Storage Manager
main window.
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Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software

The MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 software provides you with read and write caching capability.
Perform the following steps to use the CacheCade Pro 2.0 software:
1. Perform one of these actions:
Right-click on a controller in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window
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and select Create CacheCade SSD Caching.
Select a controller and select Go To > Controller > Create CacheCade SSD Caching in the menu bar.
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The CacheCade SSD Caching wizard appears, as shown in the following figure.
NOTE The MegaRAID firmware has the provision to monitor I/O
performance; changes have been made to accommodate the
CacheCade Pro 2.0 software statistics. The CacheCade Pro 2.0 software
metrics are captured for each logical drive that has CacheCade
enabled. The CacheCade Pro 2.0 software gathers information about
the cache windows allocated for a logical drive, the number of new
windows allocated in this metrics collection period, the number of
windows that are actively used, and the window hit rates.
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Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software
Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software