Operating System Support
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Windows Server 2008* R2, Windows 7*, Windows Server 2003*, Windows Vista*,
Windows XP*
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Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.0
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SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
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VMWare* ESX 4.0
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Solaris* 10
The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the
Tested operating system list for your server board at
http://www.intel.com/support/go/motherboards/server/index.htm.
To make sure the RAID module supports your operating system, see also the Tested
Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel
RMS2MH080.
Usability
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Small, thin cabling with serial point-to-point 6.0 Gbps data transfer rates.
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Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives.
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Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
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Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
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User defined stripe size per drive: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 KB.
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Advanced array configuration and management utilities provide:
— Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive.
— Online RAID level migration (upgrade of RAID mode may require OCE)
— Drive migration
— Drive roaming
— No reboot necessary after expansion
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Upgradeable Flash ROM interface.
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Allows for staggered spin-up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption.
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User specified rebuild rate (percent of system resources to use from 0-100%).
Caution: Exceeding 50% rate may cause operating system errors due to waiting for
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Background operating mode can be set for Rebuilds, Consistency Checks,
Initialization (auto restarting Consistency Check on redundant volumes), Migration,
OCE, and Patrol Read.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2MH080 Hardware User's Guide
See
Appendix A: Drive Roaming and Drive Migration Install
OCE and RAID migration.
controller access.
®
Integrated RAID Module
for limitations on
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