Table Of Contents - HP D5970A - NetServer - LCII Installation And Configuration Manual

Contents
1 Introduction..................................................................................................1
HP NetRAID Series Adapters.........................................................................1
Features of the HP NetRAID Series Adapters ................................................2
Channels and Devices ...............................................................................2
Adapter Hardware and Battery-backed Cache............................................5
SCSI Termination and Firmware ................................................................6
New Features of HP NetRAID Series Adapters ..........................................7
Physical Disk Roaming and Data Migration................................................8
Fault-Tolerance and Management Features...............................................8
Changing Capacity and RAID Levels .........................................................9
About This Guide ...........................................................................................9
Other Information Sources ........................................................................... 10
Tools You May Need.................................................................................... 10
2 RAID Overview ........................................................................................... 13
RAID Overview ............................................................................................ 13
Physical Drive.......................................................................................... 13
Arrays ...................................................................................................... 13
Hot Spare ................................................................................................ 14
Logical Drive............................................................................................ 14
Understanding RAID Levels ......................................................................... 15
Arrays with No Redundancy: RAID Level 0 .............................................. 16
Non-spanned Arrays with Redundancy: RAID Levels 1, 3, and 5.............. 17
Spanned Arrays: RAID Levels 10, 30, and 50 .......................................... 20
3 Installation and Configuration Overview .................................................. 27
4 Planning ..................................................................................................... 29
Overview ..................................................................................................... 29
Step A. Plan Your Hardware ........................................................................ 29
Gather Information................................................................................... 29
Sample Worksheet A ............................................................................... 30
Multiple Adapters ..................................................................................... 31
Slot Selection and Boot Order.................................................................. 31
Channels ................................................................................................. 32
Step B. Plan Arrays and Logical Drives........................................................ 33
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