Table Of Contents - Asus PIKE 2008 User Manual

Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 2008 specifications summary .......................................................... vi
Chapter 1:
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents ......................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 System requirements ................................................................... 1-3
1.5 Card installation ........................................................................... 1-4
Chapter 2:
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 ..................................................... 2-23
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
2.3.5
2.3.6
Chapter 3:
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
Product introduction
RAID configuration
RAID definitions .............................................................. 2-2
Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 2-2
RAID 1 volume ................................................................ 2-4
RAID 1E/10 volume ........................................................ 2-8
RAID 0 volume .............................................................. 2-10
Managing Arrays ........................................................... 2-12
Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-19
Global Properties .......................................................... 2-20
Hardware and Software Requirements ......................... 2-23
Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware
on Microsoft Windows OS ............................................. 2-23
Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for Linux ..2-27
Linux Error Messages ................................................... 2-28
Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ........... 2-29
MegaRAID Storage Manager Window .......................... 2-31
Driver installation
Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2
Windows Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11
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