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Supero AOC-USAS-L4i User Manual

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  • Page 1 BAR CODE AOC-USAS-L4i AOC-USAS-L4iR USER'S GUIDE Rev. 1.0b...
  • Page 2 Manual Revision 1.0b Release Date: October 17, 2007 Unless you request and receive written permission from SUPER MICRO COMPUTER, you may not copy or otherwise reproduce/distribute any part of this document. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Other products and companies referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or mark holders.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1-3 An Important Note to Users ... 1-1 Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors 2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers ... 2-1 AOC-USAS-L4i Front Connectors ... 2-1 2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions ... 2-2 2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions ... 2-3 Chapter 3 Driver Installation 3-1 Performing a Quick Configuration ...
  • Page 4 Add-on Card User's Guide 3-11 Clearing a Storage Configuration ... 3-16 Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager SoftwareOverview and Installation 4-1 Overview ... 4-1 Creating Storage Configurations ... 4-1 Monitoring Storage Devices ... 4-2 Maintaining Storage Configurations ... 4-2 4-2 Hardware and Software Requirements ... 4-2 4-3 Installation ...
  • Page 5 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration ... 6-18...
  • Page 6 Add-on Card User's Guide Notes...

  • Page 7: Overview

    Overview This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's AOC-USAS-L4i and/or the AOC- USAS-L4iR add-on cards to their system. Product Features The AOC-USAS-L4i and the AOC-USAS-L4iR add-on cards offer the following features: •...

  • Page 8: Contacting Supermicro

    Add-on Card User's Guide Contacting SuperMicro Headquarters Address: SuperMicro Computer, Inc. 980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: marketing@supermicro.com (General Information) support@supermicro.com (Technical Support) Web Site: www.supermicro.com Europe Address: SuperMicro Computer B.V. Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Tel:...

  • Page 9: Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines

    Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components. 1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent dam- age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully.
  • Page 10 Add-on Card User's Guide Notes...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Led Indicators And Connectors

    LED Indicators and Connectors 2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers BAR CODE Front Connectors #1. Internal SAS Connector #2. I-Button #3. Front Panel LED Connector #4. External SAS Connector Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 2 Buzzer...

  • Page 12: Front Connector And Pin Definitions

    Add-on Card User's Guide 2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions #1. Internal SAS Connector The Internal SAS port (J3) connects to the backplane allowing the motherboard to access the hard drives and RAID capabili- ties. This connector supports up to 4 HDD ports.

  • Page 13: Front Jumper Locations And Pin Definitions

    Enabling RAID5 The SWR5 jumper is used to enable RAID 5 for the AOC-USAS-L4iR card only. Safety Information and Technical Specifications Jumper Settings Enables or Disables Software Raid 5 AOC-USAS-L4iR only. Leave disabled for AOC-USAS-L4i SWR5 Connector Pins Jumper Setting...

  • Page 14: Led Indicators

    Add-on Card User's Guide LED INDICATORS BAR CODE Front Pane LEDs STATE LED1 Flashing LED2 Flashing LNP0 LNP1 LNP2 LNP3 LNP4 LNP5 LNP6 LNP7 Flashing Flashing Flashing Flashing Flashing Flashing Flashing Flashing SPECIFICATION SAS Port Activity Heartbeat and Fault Fault in HHD #0 Fault in HHD #1 Fault in HHD #2 Fault in HHD #3...

  • Page 15: Raid Minimum Drive Requirements

    RAID Minimum Drive Requirements Use the following chart to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment. RAID RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5* RAID 10 * Raid 5 is supported by the AOC-USAS-L4iR add-on card. Safety Information and Technical Specifications Minimum Hard Drives 4 (2 RAID 1 Arrays)
  • Page 16 Add-on Card User's Guide Notes...

  • Page 17: Chapter 3 Driver Installation

    Driver Installation The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) is used to configure disk arrays and logical drives and to do other configuration tasks in a pre-bootenvironment. 3-1 Performing a Quick Configuration This section provides high level instructions for quickly configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU.

  • Page 18: Configuring Arrays And Logic Drives

    Add-on Card User's Guide 3-2 Configuring Arrays and Logic Drives This section provides detailed instructions for configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU. LSI recommends that you use drives with the same capacity when you create a storage configuration. If you use drives with different capacities in one array, the CU limits each drive to the capacity of the smallest drive.

  • Page 19: Using Easy Configuration

    Note: When you start the MegaRAID BIOS CU by pressing Ctrl-H the Configuration Manager Module of the BIOS allocates three segments of memory using either PMM or conventional memory: these are the Destination Segment, Scratch Segment, and Read Write Buffer Segment. If the three segments are not available the BIOS hooks INT19h and loads the CU at the fixed segments 5000:0 (Destination Segment), 6000:0 (Scratch Segment) and 7000:0 (Read Write Buffer Segment) after POST.

  • Page 20: Using New Configuration And View/Add Configuration

    Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 3-2: Logical Drive Configuration 8. Highlight RAID and press Enter. The available RAID levels for the current logical drive are displayed. 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter. 10. (Optional) Change the drive’s default Write Cache and Read Ahead policies (see Section 3-3, “Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies”).
  • Page 21 Follow these steps to configure a disk array using the New Configuration or View/ Add Configuration option: 1. Select Configuration→ New Configuration or Configuration→ View/Add Configu- ration from the Management Menu. If you selected New Configuration, select Yes to proceed. (This confirms that you are erasing the existing storage configuration.) The CU displays an array selection window.

  • Page 22: Creating A Global Hotspare Drive

    Add-on Card User's Guide 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter. 10. (Optional) Set the logical drive size by highlighting Size and Enter. The minimum valid logical drive size is 64 Mbytes. An error will appear if you try to create a logical drive that is smaller 64 Mbytes.

  • Page 23: Initializing Logical Drives

    3. Select an unconfigured drive or Ready drive from the list, and press Enter. 4. When the Physical Drive Property menu appears, select Make Hot Spare and press Enter. 5. Select Yes from the pop-up menu to create the hotspare drive. Note: To remove a hotspare drive, perform steps 1 and 2 above, select the HOTSP disk, press Enter, select Force Offline, and press Enter.
  • Page 24 Add-on Card User's Guide 5. After the initialization is complete, press Esc to return to previous menus. If you press Esc while initialization is in progress, the following options appear: – Stop: (Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter: Management Menu→...

  • Page 25: Setting The Hard Disk Write Cache And Read Ahead Policies

    4. Select Yes at the prompt and press Enter. The CU displays a bar graph showing the initialization progress. 5. When initialization completes, press Esc to return to the previous menu. If you press Esc while initialization is in progress, the Stop, Continue, and Abort options are available, as explained earlier in this section.

  • Page 26: Rebuilding A Drive

    Add-on Card User's Guide 3. Use the arrow key to select Off or On for Disk WC (DWC) or Read Ahead. 4. When you see the prompt Change DWC or Change Read Ahead, use the arrow key to select Off or On, then press Enter to change the cache setting. The settings are changed for all logical drives defined on the array.

  • Page 27: Hot Plug Support

    4. When rebuild is complete, the CU displays the message: Rebuilding of Drive X Completed Successfully. Press Esc. (X = the ID of the rebuilt drive.) 5. Press Esc to display the Management Menu. The state of the rebuilt disk drive changes from FAIL to ONLIN. If you press Esc while the rebuild is running, the following options display: •...

  • Page 28: Checking Data Consistency

    Add-on Card User's Guide • CU menus such as Select Boot Drive, Select Adapter, and Logical Drive menus will completely or partially close when a drive is inserted or removed. • If a Rebuild is in progress when you insert or remove a drive, the CU will first display the message Rebuilding Of Drive Not Complete! Press Esc..

  • Page 29: Viewing And Changing Device Properties

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications 4. Press F10. 5. At the prompt, select Yes to start the Check Consistency process and press Enter. A graph shows the progress of the Check Consistency operation until it is complete. If the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds any data inconsistencies while comparing the source and target drives, it fixes the inconsistency by writing the source data to the target drive.

  • Page 30: Viewing And Changing Adapter Properties

    Add-on Card User's Guide Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties To view or change adapter properties, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Objects→ Adapter. 2. Select an adapter from the list. The following list of adapter properties appears: 1.

  • Page 31: Viewing And Changing Logical Drive Properties

    Viewing and Changing Logical Drive Properties To view or change logical drive properties, follow these steps: 1. On the Management Menu, select Objects → Logical Drive. 2. Select View/Update Parameters. The only logical drive properties you can change are Disk WC (Disk Write Cache) and Read Ahead (see Section 3-3, “Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies”).

  • Page 32: Configuring A Bootable Logical Drive

    Add-on Card User's Guide 3-9 Configuring a Bootable Logical Drive The default boot logical drive is LD 0. If you change the boot drive to another logi- cal drive, the BIOS and the CU will preserve this change. However, if you delete the new boot logical drive, you must be sure to configure another logical drive for booting.

  • Page 33: Megaraid Storage Manager Software Overview And Installation

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation MegaRAID Storage Manager software is a configuration and monitoring utility used with the Embedded MegaRAID Software. This chapter provides a brief overview of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software and explains how to install it on the supported operating systems.

  • Page 34: Monitoring Storage Devices

    Add-on Card User's Guide You can use the Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration mode to automatically create the best possible configuration with the available hardware. You can use the Guided Configuration mode, which asks you a few brief questions about the configu- ration, and then creates it for you.

  • Page 35: Installation

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications 4-3 Installation This section explains how to install (or reinstall) MegaRAID Storage Manager soft- ware on your workstation or server for the supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, and SUSE Linux. 5.3.1 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or...
  • Page 36 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 4.1: Customer Information Screen 4. Enter your user name and organization name. In the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: – If you select All users, any user with administrative privileges can use this version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software to view or change storage configura- tions.
  • Page 37 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 4.2: Customer Information Screen 7. Select one of the Setup options. The options are fully explained in the screen text. – Normally, you would select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server. –...

  • Page 38: Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software For Linux

    Add-on Card User's Guide If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers, and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet (that is, servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software), you cannot connect to a remote server unless you first edit the startupui.bat file.

  • Page 39: Linux Error Messages

    Linux Error Messages One or more of the following messages may appear while you are installing Mega- RAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system: • More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software has been in- stalled. This message indicates that the user has installed more than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software.
  • Page 40 Add-on Card User's Guide Notes...

  • Page 41: Megaraid Storage Manager Window And Menus

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 5 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This chapter explains how to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and de- scribes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and menus. 5-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and view the main window: 1.
  • Page 42 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 5-1: Select Server Window If the circle in the server icon is yellow instead of green, it means that the server is running in a degraded state—for example, because a disk drive used in a virtual disk has failed.
  • Page 43 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 5-2: Select Server Window 3. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu. – Select Full Access if you need to both view the current configuration and change the configuration. – Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the configuration. 4.

  • Page 44: Megaraid Storage Manager Window

    Add-on Card User's Guide 5-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, which is shown in Figure 5-3. The following topics describe the panels and menu options that appear in this window.

  • Page 45: Physical/Logical View Panel

    Physical/Logical View Panel The left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays either the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the devices in it, depending on which tab is selected. • The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system. At the top of the hierarchy is the system itself.

  • Page 46: Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel

    Add-on Card User's Guide Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel The right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window has either two or three tabs, depending on what kind of device is selected in the left panel. • The Properties tab displays information about the selected device. For example, if a controller icon is selected in the left panel, the Properties tab lists information such as the controller name and the device port count.

  • Page 47: Menu Bar

    Menu Bar Here are brief descriptions of the main selections on the MegaRAID Storage Man- ager menu bar. File Menu The File menu has an Exit option for exiting from the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. It also has a Rescan option for updating the display in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.

  • Page 48: Log Menu

    Add-on Card User's Guide Log Menu The Log menu includes options for saving and clearing the message log. Help Menu On the Help menu you can select Help -> Help to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager software online help file. You can select Help -> About to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software.

  • Page 49: Chapter 6 Configuration

    You use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to create and modify storage configurations. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 storage configurations are supported. Important: LSI recommends that you do not use both SAS and SATA drives in the same array. Using different drive interfaces in this way could cause unpredict- able behavior, decreased performance, an increased error count, and decreased MTBF.
  • Page 50 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-1: First Screen Configuration Wizard The menu lists three configuration modes: • Auto Configuration automatically creates an optimal configuration from the avail- able disk drives. • Manual Configuration gives you the greatest level of control in creating a new virtual disk.

  • Page 51: Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications The following subsections explain how to use the Configuration Wizard to create storage configurations: • “Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters” • “Using Auto Configuration” • “Using Guided Configuration” • “Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0” • “Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1” •...

  • Page 52: Using Auto Configuration

    Add-on Card User's Guide Using Auto Configuration Auto Configuration is the quickest and simplest way to create a new storage configu- ration. When you select Auto Configuration mode on the first Configuration Wizard screen, the Configuration Wizard creates the best configuration possible using the available physical disks.

  • Page 53: Using Guided Configuration

    2. Select an initialization option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window: – No Initialization: The new configuration is not initialized, and the existing data on the disks is not overwritten. – Fast Initialization: MegaRAID Storage Manager software quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 8 Mbyte regions of the new virtual disk.
  • Page 54 Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-3: First Guided Conguration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Guided Configuration mode: 1. Select a redundancy option at the top of the Guided Configuration window: – Redundancy Only: Create a configuration only if redundancy (RAID 1) is pos- sible.
  • Page 55 Safety Information and Technical Specifications 3. Select a maximum number of virtual disks to be created. The Configuration Wizard may not be able to create as many virtual disks as you want, depending on the current configuration and the number of virtual disks that have already been created.

  • Page 56: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 0

    Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0 Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Figure 6-5 shows the first screen that appears when you select Manual Configura- tion.
  • Page 57 Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 6-6: Manual Configuration - Defining a Virtual Disk The Arrays with Free Space menu lists the new array that you just defined, plus any existing arrays with holes (free space) that could be used for a new configuration. 4.

  • Page 58: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 1

    Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1 Follow these steps to create a RAID 1 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard: 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, shown in Figure 6-5, select two avail- able drives in the left panel.
  • Page 59 4. To remove a hotspare from an array, select it in the right panel and click Remove HotSpare. 5. Click Next. The next Configuration Wizard window appears, as shown in Figure 6.6. The Arrays with Free Space menu lists the new array(s) that you just defined, plus any existing arrays with holes (free space) that could be used for a new configura- tion.

  • Page 60: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 5

    Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 5 Follow these steps to create a RAID 5 storage configuration using the Manual Con- figuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Remember that RAID 5 requires: • AOC-USAS-L4iR card with the enabled SWR5 jumper enabled •...

  • Page 61: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 10

    Safety Information and Technical Specifications 9. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Sum- mary window appears. 10. Review the configuration shown in the Virtual Disk Summary window. If you want to change something, click Back and change the configuration parameters. 11.

  • Page 62: Adding Hotspare Disks

    Add-on Card User's Guide 10. Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk. Note: Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined. 11. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Sum- mary window appears.

  • Page 63: Changing Adjustable Task Rates

    6-3 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Follow these steps if you need to change the adjustable rates for rebuilds and other system tasks that run in the background: Note: LSI recommends that you leave the adjustable task rates at their default set- tings to achieve the best system performance.

  • Page 64: Changing Virtual Disk Properties

    Add-on Card User's Guide 6-4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties You can change a virtual disk’s Read Policy, Write Policy, and other properties at any time after the virtual disk is created. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.

  • Page 65: Saving A Storage Configuration To Disk

    6-6 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk You can save an existing controller configuration to a file so you can apply it to another controller. To save a configuration file, follow these steps: 1. Select a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.

  • Page 66: Adding A Saved Storage Configuration

    Add-on Card User's Guide 6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration When you replace a controller, or when you want to duplicate an existing stor- age configuration on a new controller, you can add a saved configuration to the controller. Caution: When you add a saved configuration to a replacement controller, be sure that the number and size of the physical disks connected to the controller are exactly the same as when the configuration was saved.

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