Table Of Contents - Asus PIKE II 3008 Series User Manual

Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................................... iv
PIKE II 3008 Series specifications summary ........................................................... vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! .................................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................................. 1-3
1.3.1
1.4 System requirements ................................................................................. 1-5
1.5 Card installation ......................................................................................... 1-6
Chapter 2: RAID Configuration
2.1 Setting up RAID .......................................................................................... 2-2
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.2 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility ........................................................... 2-3
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.2.6
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager ................................................................... 2-37
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
2.3.5
2.3.6
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................................. 3-2
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.3
ASUS contact information ..................................................................................... 3-16
Switch settings ............................................................................ 1-4
RAID definitions .......................................................................... 2-2
Installing hard disk drives ............................................................ 2-2
RAID 1 volume ............................................................................ 2-4
RAID 1E/10 volume................................................................... 2-10
RAID 0 volume .......................................................................... 2-16
Managing the RAID Volumes .................................................... 2-22
Viewing SAS topology ............................................................... 2-33
Global Properties ...................................................................... 2-34
Hardware and Software Requirements ..................................... 2-37
Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware on
Microsoft Windows OS .............................................................. 2-37
Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for
Linux.......................................................................................... 2-41
Linux Error Messages ............................................................... 2-42
Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ....................... 2-43
MegaRAID Storage Manager Window ...................................... 2-45
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Windows Server 2012 R2 OS .................................................... 3-2
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 5.x .............................................. 3-6
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 6.x .............................................. 3-9
SUSE Linux OS 11.................................................................... 3-13
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