Protocol Support; Operating System Support; Usability - Intel AXXRMS2AF080 Hardware User's Manual

Protocol Support

Each port on the SAS controllers supports SAS devices, SATA II devices, or both using
SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA II as follows:
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Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) to enable communication with other SAS devices.
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SATA II Protocol to enable communication with other SATA II devices.
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Serial Management Protocol (SMP) to share topology management information
with expanders.
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Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATA II through expander interfaces..

Operating System Support

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Windows Server 2008* R2, Windows 7*, Windows Server 2003*, Windows Vista*
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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
RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080.

Usability

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Small, thin cabling with up to 6.0 Gb/s serial, point-to-point 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, 10, and 50.
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Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
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User-defined strip size per drive: 8, 16, 32, or 64 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
Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Hardware User's Guide
See Appendix A: Drive Roaming and Drive Migration Install
OCE and RAID migration.
®
Integrated RAID Module
for limitations on
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