Page 1 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide: ® • Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 ® • Intel IT/IR RAID ® • Intel Integrated Server RAID ® • Intel RAID Controllers using the ® Intel RAID Software Stack 3 Revision 19.0 April, 2012...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
4K Sector Drive Support ....................25 Larger than 2TB Drive Support ..................26 Power Save settings ....................26 Shield State .........................26 Array Purpose ......................27 Chapter 3: RAID Utilities ..................29 ® Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 BIOS Configuration Utility ......29 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 4 IM and IME Configuration Overview ..................49 Features ........................49 Creating IM and IME Volumes .................... 50 Creating an IM Volume ....................51 Creating an IME Volume ..................... 52 Creating a Second IM or IME Volume ................. 53 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 5 Creating RAID 0, 1, 5, or 6 using Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 (detailed) ......73 ® Creating RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 using Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 ....77 Setting Drive Parameters .....................82 Creating a Hot Spare ......................83 Viewing Event Details ......................86...
Page 6 Flashing the Firmware ....................144 Enabling RAID Premium Features ................... 144 Enabling Full Disk Encryption feature ............... 144 Enabling Snapshot feature ..................153 Enabling Super Sized Cache ..................163 Appendix A: Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration ....167 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 7 Appendix B: Events and Messages ..............175 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
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Page 9 ® Figure 40. Intel RAID Web Console 2 – Customer Information Screen ........ 91 Figure 41. Setup Type Screen ....................91 ® Figure 42. Intel RAID Web Console 2 – Select Server Screen ..........98 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 10 Figure 84. Virtual Drive Properties..................135 Figure 85. Enclosure Information..................136 Figure 86. Battery Backup Unit Information ................137 Figure 87. Battery Backup Unit Operations ................138 Figure 88. Group Show Progress Window................139 Figure 89. Selecting Initialize ....................140 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 11 Figure 133. Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0 ..............171 Figure 134. Virtual Drive Settings Window................172 Figure 135. New Virtual Drive 0 .................... 173 Figure 136. Create Virtual Drive Summary Window.............. 173 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 12 Figure 137. Option to Create Additional Virtual Drives ............174 Figure 138. Option to Close the Configuration Wizard ............174 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 13 Table 11. RAID Levels and Capacity ..................22 Table 12. Factors to Consider for Array Configuration ............27 ® Table 13. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 Toolbar Icon Descriptions .........64 Table 14. MFI Messages .......................176 Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide xiii...
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Page 15: Chapter 1: Overview
Overview ® The software described in this document is designed for use with Intel RAID controllers, and ® with on-serverboard RAID solutions that use the Intel RAID Software Stack 3 (driver package names begin with “ir3”), Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (driver package ®...
Page 16 ® Systems using the Intel RAID Controller SROMBSAS18E provide XOR RAID modes ® 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 when the optional Intel RAID Activation Key AXXRAK18E and a DDR2 400 MHz ECC DIMM are installed. ® Systems using the Intel RAID Controller SROMBSASFC or SROMBSASMP2 ®...
Page 17: Software
— For Intel Integrated Server RAID, press <Ctrl> + <G> during the server boot to enter the RAID BIOS Console II. • ® Intel RAID Controller Drivers: Intel provides software drivers for the following operating systems. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 18: Raid Terminology
Linux Enterprise Server 11(with service packs; X86 and X86-64) — VMWare* ESX 4i ® Note: Only the combinations of controller, driver, and Intel Server Board or System listed in the Tested Hardware and Operating System List (THOL) were tested. Check the supported operating system list for both your RAID controller and your server board to verify operating system support and compatibility.
Page 19: Hot Spare
® selection is made by users. As part of JBOD implementation for Intel RAID Controller RS2WC080 and RS2WC040, all new drives that are hot-plugged will automatically become JBOD.
Page 20: Enclosure Management
Performance Performance improvements come from multiple areas including disk striping and disk spanning, accessing multiple disks simultaneously, and setting the percentage of processing capability to use for a task. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 21: Disk Striping
Setting resource to 100% gives total priority to the rebuild. Setting it at 0% means the rebuild will only occur if the system is not doing anything else. The default rebuild rate is 30%. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 22 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 23: Chapter 2: Raid Levels
• RAID IME: Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) which supports mirrored arrays with ® three to ten disks, plus hot-spare disks. This is implemented in Intel IT/IR RAID. • RAID 10: A combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, consists of striped data across mirrored spans.
Page 24: Selecting A Raid Level
Provides increased data throughput for large files. No capacity loss penalty Strong Points for parity. Does not provide fault tolerance or high bandwidth. If any drive fails, all data Weak Points is lost. 1 to 32 Drives ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 25: Raid 1 - Disk Mirroring/Disk Duplexing
I/O transactions simultaneously. RAID 5 addresses the bottleneck issue for random I/O operations. Because each drive contains both data and parity, numerous writes can take place concurrently. Table 3 provides an overview of RAID 5. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 26: Raid 6 - Distributed Parity And Disk Striping
These rebuilds do not occur at the same time. The controller rebuilds one failed drive at a time. Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 27: Raid Ime
Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) volume with three mirrored disks. Each mirrored stripe is written to a disk and mirrored to an adjacent disk. This type of configuration is also called RAID 1E. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 28: Raid 10 - Combination Of Raid 1 And Raid 0
The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter, which is set during the creation of the RAID set. RAID 10 supports up to eight spans. Table 6 provides an overview of RAID 10. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 29: Raid 50 - Combination Of Raid 5 And Raid 0
Though multiple drive failures can be tolerated, only one drive failure can be tolerated in each RAID 1 level array. Table 7 provides an overview of RAID 50. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 30: Raid 60 - Combination Of Raid 0 And Raid 6
RAID 60 supports up to 8 spans and tolerates up to 16 drive failures, though less than total disk drive capacity is available. Each RAID 6 level can tolerate two drive failures. Table 8 provides an overview of RAID 60. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 31: Table 8. Raid 60 Overview
Note: When only three hard drives are available for RAID 6, the situation has to be that P equals Q equals original data, which means that the three hard drives have the same original data, which can afford two disk failures. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 32: Figure 8. Raid 60 Level Virtual Drive
RAID 60 Figure 8. RAID 60 Level Virtual Drive ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 33: Raid Configuration Strategies
In RAID 5, this method is applied to the entire drive or stripes across all disk drives in an array. Using distributed parity, RAID 5 offers fault tolerance with limited overhead. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 34: Maximizing Performance
1 or With RAID 1 or IME (mirroring), each drive in the system must be duplicated, which requires more time and resources than striping. Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 35: Maximizing Storage Capacity
(RAID 1 or IME) or distributed parity (RAID 5 or RAID 6). RAID 5, which provides redundancy for one drive failure without duplicating the contents of entire disk drives, requires less space then RAID 1. Table 11 explains the effects of the RAID levels on storage capacity. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 36: Table 11. Raid Levels And Capacity
However, it requires extra capacity because a RAID 60 virtual disk has to generate two sets of parity data for each write operation. This makes RAID 60 more expensive to implement. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 37: Raid Availability
RAID controller finds existing RAID configuration on the new drives. Since these drives cannot be configured directly, avoid deleting data on the existing RAID by mistake. Use “Scan for Foreign Configuration” option in RAID Web Console 2, or use “Scan Devices” option in ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 38: Copyback
Each type of data stored in the disk subsystem has a different frequency of read and write activity. If you know the data access requirements, you can more successfully determine a strategy for optimizing the disk subsystem capacity, availability, and performance. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 39: Dimmer Switch Feature
Additionally, controller cache tuning has resulted in improvements to configurations leveraging write back mode. ® Level 2 Fast Path enabled automatically with Intel RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD or AXXRPFKSSD2 installed. Level 2 Fast Path is SSD-centric. This is where the Premium Feature kicks in by supporting full optimization of SSD Virtual Disk groups.
Page 40: Larger Than 2Tb Drive Support
4K sector support on all new products, beginning with those ® designed to utilize the LSI 2208 and LSI2308 SAS products. Currently shipping Intel RAID and SAS products will support 4K sector drives running in legacy 512b sector mode.
Page 41: Array Purpose
RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60 Physical disk performance and RAID 0, RAID 10 throughput Hot spares (extra physical disks required) RAID 1, RAID IME, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
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Page 43: Chapter 3: Raid Utilities
Intel IT/IR RAID Controller, with one or two optional global hot-spare ® disks. All disks in an IM/IME volume must be connected to the same Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. Although you can use disks of different size in IM and IME volumes, the smallest disk in the volume will determine the logical size of all disks in the volume.
Page 44: Intel Raid Bios Console 2 Configuration Utility For Intelligent Raid
® configuration and management of RAID arrays. The Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 utility ® resides in the controller firmware and is independent of the operating system. The Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 configuration utility lets you: ® • Select an Intel RAID controller •...
Page 45: Intel Raid Web Console 2 Configuration And Monitoring Utility
RAID Web Console 2 is an operating system-based, object-oriented GUI utility ® that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network. The Intel RAID Web Console 2 runs on each of the supported Microsoft Windows* and Linux operating systems.
Page 46: Drive Hierarchy Within The Raid Firmware
Drive Hierarchy within the RAID Firmware ® The Intel Integrated RAID firmware is based on three fundamental levels. Virtual drives are created from drive arrays that are created from physical drives. • Level 1 consists of the physical drives (hard drives and removable hard disks). The firmware identifies each drive by its physical ID and maps it to a virtual address.
Page 47: Fault Tolerant Features
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) device to prevent data loss during power outages. • Battery life is about three years. You should monitor the battery health and replace when needed. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 48: Cache Options And Settings
RAID level migration and online capacity expansion are completed in the background. ® • Patrol Read is a user definable option available in the Intel RAID Web Console 2 that performs drive reads in the background and maps out any bad areas of the drive.
Page 49: Error Handling
LEDs, the flashing of LEDs, or audible alarms. Audible Alarm ® The following list of beep tones is used on Intel Intelligent RAID Controllers. These beeps usually indicate that a drive has failed.
Page 50 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 51: Chapter 4: Intel ® Raid Drivers
Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. See the Readme file that accompanies the download for updated information. For operating systems that are not listed here, but are listed at the above Intel Web site see Readme file that accompanies the download for installation steps.
Page 52: Installation In An Existing Microsoft Windows* Operating System
4. Insert the disk with driver image. 5. Select Yes. ® 6. Scroll down to select Intel RAID adapter driver. The utility locates and loads the driver for your device. 7. Follow the Red Hat* Linux installation procedure to complete the installation.
Page 53: Raid Driver Installation For Suse* Linux
Installation in a New Novell Netware* System Follow the instructions in the Novell Netware* Installation Guide to install Novell Netware in ® the server. Perform the following steps to install Novell NetWare using your Intel RAID controller as a primary adapter.
Page 54: Installation In An Existing Novell Netware* System
Perform the following steps to add the Novell NetWare* driver to an existing Installation. Note: Drivers for Novell Netware* are not available on the CD-ROM. The latest drivers are available at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ or from your CDI account. 1. Type nwconfig at the root prompt and press <Enter>. The Configuration Options screen loads.
Page 55: Chapter 5: Intel ® Embedded Server Raid Bios Configuration Utility
• View and set adapter properties, including consistency check and auto-resume ® SATA and SAS systems use different versions of the Intel Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility, but both versions use the same keystrokes and contain identical menus. The utility menus show limited help at the bottom of the screen and selections are chosen with the arrow keys and the space bar.
Page 56: Creating, Adding Or Modifying A Virtual Drive Configuration
To create, add, or modify a virtual drive configuration, follow these steps: 1. Boot the system. ® 2. Press <Ctrl> + <E> when prompted to start the Intel Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility. 3. Select Configure from the Main Menu.
Page 57: Raid Level
18. After the initialization is complete, press the <Esc> key to return to the previous menu. Pressing the <Esc> key closes the current menu. If a process is running when you press the <Esc> key, you are given the following options: ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 58: Setting The Write Cache And Read Ahead Policies
A global, but not dedicated, hot-spare drive can be created to automatically replace a failed drive in a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array. For new arrays, you should create the global hot-spare during the configuration process. See “Creating, Adding or Modifying a Virtual Drive Configuration” on page ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 59: Adding A Hot-Spare Drive
In a pre-boot environment, auto rebuild starts only when you enter the BIOS utility. Note: Hot-plug support is not available in the pre-boot environment. For the system ® BIOS or the Intel Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility to detect the physical drive, insert the drive when the system is off.
Page 60: Checking Data Consistency
® The Auto Rebuild and Auto Resume options are available in the Intel Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration utility from the menu that is displayed after you select Objects | Adapter. Checking Data Consistency The Check Consistency feature can be used on RAID 1 or RAID 10 drives to verify the data consistency between the mirrored drives.
Page 61: Forcing A Drive Online Or Offline
To clear a storage configuration, follow these steps: 1. On the Main Menu, select Configure | Clear Configuration. 2. When the message appears, select Yes to confirm. All virtual drives are deleted from the configuration. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
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Page 63: Chapter 6: Intel It/Ir Raid Configuration
Intel IT/IR RAID Controller, with one or two optional global hot-spare ® disks. All disks in an IM/IME volume must be connected to the same Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. Although you can use disks of different size in IM and IME volumes, the smallest disk in the volume will determine the logical size of all disks in the volume.
Page 64: Creating Im And Ime Volumes
In addition, one or two hot spares can be created for the IM/IME volume(s). Note: If a disk in an IM/IME volume fails, it is rebuilt on the global hot spare if one is available. Intel recommends that you always use hot spares with IM/IME volumes. ®...
Page 65: Creating An Im Volume
7. [Optional] Add one or two global hot spares by moving the cursor to the hot spare column and pressing the <+> or <-> keys, or the space bar. Figure 11 shows an IM volume configured with one global hot-spare disk. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 66: Creating An Ime Volume
To create an IME volume with the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility, follow these steps: ® 1. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to select an Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. 2. Press <Enter> to load the Adapter Properties screen, shown in Figure 3.
Page 67: Creating A Second Im Or Ime Volume
“Creating an IME Volume“ on page 52 to create a second volume. Option 2: ® 1. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to select an Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. 2. Press <Enter> to go to the Adapter Properties screen, shown in Figure 3.
Page 68: Figure 12. Manage Array Screen
2. Select Delete Hot Spare and then press <C>. If there are two hot spares, select one to delete. 3. Select Save changes then exit this menu to commit the changes. The configuration utility pauses while the global hot spare is removed. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 69: Other Configuration Tasks
This option is only available when the selected array is currently inactive. To activate a selected array, follow these steps: 1. Select Activate Array on the Manage Array screen. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 70: Deleting An Array
Topology screen. The LEDs flash on all disk drives in the volume. Note: The LEDs on the disk drives will flash as described above if the firmware is correctly configured and the drives or the disk enclosure supports disk location. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 71: Selecting A Boot Disk
You can use the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility to create one or two IS ® volumes, with up to a total of 12 drives, on an Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. Each volume can have from two to ten drives. Disks in an IS volume must be connected to the same ®...
Page 72: Creating Is Volumes
You can configure an ® IM/IME volume and an IS volume on the same Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. 1. On the Adapter List screen of the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility, use the arrow keys to select a RAID adapter.
Page 73: Creating A Second Is Volume
3. Continue with Step 4 of “Creating IS Volumes,” to create a second IS volume. Option 2: Perform the following steps: ® 1. On the Adapter List screen, use the arrow keys to select an Intel IT/IR RAID Controller. 2. Press <Enter> to go to the Adapter Properties screen, shown in Figure ®...
Page 74: Other Configuration Tasks
Caution: Once a volume has been deleted, it cannot be recovered. Before deleting an array, be sure to back up all data on the array that you want to keep. To delete a selected array, follow these steps: 1. Select Delete Array on the Manage Array screen. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 75: Locating A Disk Drive, Or Multiple Disk Drives In A Volume
<Alt> + <B>. This controller will no longer have a disk designated as boot. 5. To change the boot disk, move the cursor to the new boot disk and press <Alt> + <B>. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 76 The boot designator will move to this disk. Note: The firmware must be configured correctly for the <Alt> + <B> feature to work. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 77: Chapter 7: Intel ® Raid Bios Console 2 Utility
RAID BIOS Console 2 utility. The steps are as follows: 1. Power on the system. ® 2. Press <Ctrl>+<G> to start the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 utility. Note: Some server boards have a BIOS SETUP option called "Port 60/64 Emulation" (or with other similar name).
Page 78: Detailed Configuration Steps Using The Intel
® Detailed Configuration Steps using the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 ® Start the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 Utility 1. When the system boots, hold down the <Ctrl> key and press the <G> key when the following is displayed: Press <Ctrl><G>...
Page 79: Figure 15. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 Menu
Main Screen ® From the main screen, you can scan the devices connected to the controller, select an Intel RAID controller, and switch between the Physical Drives view and Virtual Drives view. The main screen also provides access to the following screens and tools: •...
Page 80: Figure 16. Intel ® Raid Bios Console 2 - Controller Selection
When you select the Controller Selection option on the main screen, the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 utility displays a list of the Intel RAID controllers in the system. The Controller Properties screen allows you to view and configure the software and hardware of the selected controller.
Page 81: Figure 18. Additional Controller Properties
100 to control the rate at which a consistency check is done. • Reconstruction Rate: Enter a number between 0 and 100 to control the rate at which the reconstruction of a virtual drive occurs. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 82 When you select the Scan Devices option on the Main screen, the Intel RAID BIOS Console ® 2 checks the physical and virtual drives for any changes of the drive status. The Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 displays the results of the scan in the physical and virtual drive descriptions.
Page 83 RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60. If a difference in ® the data is found, the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 assumes that the data is accurate and automatically corrects the parity value.
Page 84: Setting Up A Raid Array Using The Configuration Wizard
1. Start the Configuration Wizard by selecting the Configuration Wizard icon on the ® Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 main screen. ® Figure 19. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 - Configuration Types 2. Select New Configuration and click Next. 3. Then select Virtual Drive Configuration and click Next. ®...
Page 85: Figure 20. Selecting Configuration
Figure 20. Selecting Configuration ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 86: Figure 21. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Configuration Methods
4. Choose the configuration method and click Next. ® Figure 21. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 - Configuration Methods The following configuration methods options are provided: — Automatic Configuration There are two options in Redundancy. Redundancy When Possible or No Redundancy.
Page 87: Raid Bios Console 2 (Detailed)
® Creating RAID 0, 1, 5, or 6 using Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 (detailed) This section describes the process to set up RAID modes using the custom configuration options. 1. When the server boots, hold the <Ctrl> key and press the <G> key when the following is displayed: Press <Ctrl><G>...
Page 88: Figure 23. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Set Array Properties
For information about setting these parameters, see “Setting Drive Parameters” on page ® Figure 23. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 - Set Array Properties 11. Click Accept to accept the changes, or click Reclaim to delete the changes and return to the previous settings.
Page 89: Figure 24. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Confirm Configuration
® Figure 24. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 - Confirm Configuration 13. Click Accept as necessary in the screens that follow. You are prompted to save the configuration and then to initialize the virtual drive. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 90: Figure 25. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Initialization Speed Setting
RAID BIOS Console 2 - Initialization Speed Setting 16. Click Home to return to the main configuration screen. ® 17. Select an additional virtual drive to configure or exit the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 configuration utility and reboot the system.
Page 91: Creating Raid 10, Raid 50, And Raid 60 Using Intel
® Creating RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 using Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 require setting up multiple RAID arrays/disk groups. 1. When the server boots, hold the <Ctrl> key and press the <G> key when the following is displayed: Press <Ctrl><G>...
Page 92: Figure 27. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Spanning Multiple Arrays
13. Set the drive size to a number in MB that is a size greater then the size of the RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 6 size listed in the disk group. ® Figure 27. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Spanning Multiple Arrays 14. Click Next if the application does not automatically progress to the next screen.
Page 93: Figure 28. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Viewing Completed Settings
(RAID 1 for RAID 10, or RAID 50 or RAID 60). ® Figure 28. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Viewing Completed Settings 15. Click Accept to save the configuration. 16. When asked to save the configuration, click Yes.
Page 94: Figure 29. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Initialization Settings
RAID BIOS Console 2 – Initialization Settings ® 19. Click Home at the Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 screen to return to the main screen. The RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 virtual drives are displayed. The following figure shows the RAID 10 virtual drives.
Page 95: Figure 31. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Raid 10 Properties Screen
® Figure 31. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – RAID 10 Properties Screen ® Figure 32. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – RAID 50 Properties Screen ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 96: Setting Drive Parameters
— Cached IO: All reads are buffered in cache memory. — Direct IO: Reads are not buffered in cache memory. Data is transferred to cache and to the host concurrently. If the same data block is read again, it comes from cache memory. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 97: Creating A Hot Spare
To create a hot spare, follow these steps: 1. On the main screen, select the drive that should be used as the hot spare. ® Figure 33. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Choosing a Hot Spare Drive 2. Select the disk group.
Page 98: Figure 34. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Setting A Hot Spare Drive
— Click Make Global HSP if you want to create a global hot spare for all disk groups. ® Figure 34. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Setting a Hot Spare Drive 4. Click Go to create the hot spare.
Page 99: Figure 36. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Main Screen Showing Hot Spare Drive
® Figure 36. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Main Screen showing Hot Spare Drive ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 100: Viewing Event Details
1. On the Main screen, select Events from the menu at the left. The Events screen appears. ® Figure 37. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Event Information Screen 2. Select the component to display from the Event Locale list.
Page 101: Figure 38. Intel Raid Bios Console 2 - Selecting Events To View
® Figure 38. Intel RAID BIOS Console 2 – Selecting Events to View 5. Click Go. In the following example, virtual drive events for informational messages were selected, starting with the event at sequence 120. The events screen displays the event information for sequence number 120 in the right pane.
Page 102 6. Click Next to view the next message. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 103: Chapter 8: Intel ® Raid Web Console 2
RAID Web Console 2 graphical user interface (GUI) makes it easy to create and manage storage configurations. Note: Depending on different version of Intel(R) RAID Web Console 2, the actual screen displayed could be different from this section. This section is for reference only.
Page 104: Maintenance Functions
Hardware and Software Requirements ® The hardware requirements for Intel RAID Web Console 2 software are as follows. ® ® • PC-compatible computer system with at least one Intel Xeon architecture processor ® ® or an Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) 64-bit processor •...
Page 105: Figure 40. Intel ® Raid Web Console 2 - Customer Information Screen
® Figure 40. Intel RAID Web Console 2 – Customer Information Screen 4. Enter your user name and organization name. At the bottom of the screen, select an installation option: — If you select All users, any user with administrative privileges can view or change the RAID configurations.
Page 106: Installing The Intel ® Raid Web Console 2 On Linux Or Suse* Linux Enterprise Server
ServerInstall.sh and choose setup type "4". For the noninteractive (silent) mode, run ./ServerInstall.sh -x. ® ® In order to manage Intel RAID Web Console 2 on a VMWare system, install Intel RAID Web Console 2 Client from a remote system. ® Uninstalling Intel RAID Web Console 2 for VMWare ®...
Page 107: Installing Intel Raid Web Console 2 Support On The Vmware Esx
RAID Web Console 2 Framework service, run the following command: /etc/init.d/vivaldiframeworkd stop ® It is recommended that you stop the Monitor service before you stop the Intel RAID Web Console 2 Framework service. To stop the Monitor service run the following command: /etc/init.d/mrmonitor stop...
Page 108 Differences in Intel RAID Web Console 2 for VMware ESXi ® The following are some of the differences in the Intel RAID Web Console 2 utility when you manage a VMWare server. 1. The following limitations apply to the system information exposed through the application: —...
Page 109 ® For networks that has DNS configured, the "hosts" file in the machine on which Intel RAID Web Console 2 is installed must be edited as follows: — When you do the initial configurations for the VMWare host, provide the correct DNS server IP address.
Page 110 ® Running Intel RAID Web Console 2 on VMWare ESX 3.5i U2 ® If you are using VMWare ESX 3.5i U2, perform the following steps to make Intel RAID Web Console 2 work: 1. Open the maintenance console/shell in ESX3.
Page 111 /etc/init.d/sfcbd status Note: The updated Storelib library in the /lib directory does not persist across reboots. Each time you restart the VMWare host, you have to follow this procedure to replace the Storelib library. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 112: Starting The Intel ® Raid Web Console 2
Note: To access systems on a different subnet, type in the box in middle-left side of the screen the IP ® address of a system in the desired subnet where Intel RAID Web Console 2 is running and click Discover Host. If you check the Connect to remote framework box, you can also access a standalone ®...
Page 113: Figure 43. Intel Raid Web Console 2 - Login Screen
RAID Web Console 2. In Linux, you can use the username root and appropriate password ® to log on to Intel RAID Web Console 2. If you do not know the password, contact the server system administrator to obtain the password.
Page 114: Figure 44. Intel Raid Web Console 2 Dashboard
® Figure 44. Intel RAID Web console 2 dashboard The information displayed on this Dashboard screen provides an overview of the RAID ecosystem on the selected server system. Some frequently used functions are listed in the Dashboard tab, such as Create Virtual Drive etc.
Page 115: Physical/Virtual View Panel
® Figure 45. Intel RAID Web Console 2 – Main Screen The information on the screen in Figure 45 shows the connected devices such as RAID controllers, physical devices, battery and so on. The following subsections describe this screen in more detail.
Page 116: Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel
The Properties tab displays information about the selected device. Note: Depending on different Intel(R) RAID Web Console 2 versions, Operations and Graphical tabs may not exist, or only exist in old version utility. The screen displays in following sections show all these ®...
Page 117: Event Log Panel
The Operations tab lists the operations that can be performed on the device selected in the left ® panel. This tab is available only when you are logged in to Intel RAID Web Console 2 in Full-access mode. Options available for controllers include: enabling or silencing the alarm, flashing the firmware, and so on.
Page 118: Menu Bar/Manage Menu
The Log menu includes options for saving, clearing, and loading the message log. File Menu/Tool Menu The Tools menu includes options for configuring alerts. File Menu/Help Menu ® The Help menu provides access to the online help file and Intel RAID Web Console 2 version.information. Drive Configuration Tasks ®...
Page 119: Create Virtual Drive
1. Perform either of the following steps: ® — Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window and select Create Virtual Drive — Select the controller node and select Go To -> Controller -> Create Virtual Drive in...
Page 120: Figure 48. Virtual Drive Creation Menu
Figure 48. Virtual Drive Creation Menu The dialog box for the configuration mode (simple or advanced) appears, as shown in Figure 49 Figure 49. Virtual Drive Creation Mode ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 121: Figure 50. Create Virtual Drive Screen
6. Select the capacity for the virtual drives. Each virtual drive has the same capacity. 7. Click Next. The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears, as shown in Figure 51. This window shows the selections you made for simple configuration. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 122: Figure 51. Create Virtual Drive - Summary Window
50. If you select No, the utility asks whether you want to close the wizard, as shown in Figure 10. If you selected No in step 9, select Yes or No to indicate whether to close the wizard. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 123: Creating A Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
1. Perform either of the following steps: ® — Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window and select Create Virtual Drive — Select the controller node and select Go To -> Controller -> Create Virtual Drive in...
Page 124: Figure 54. Virtual Drive Creation Menu
Figure 54. Virtual Drive Creation Menu The dialog box shown in Figure 55 appears. Figure 55. Virtual Drive Creation Mode ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 125: Figure 56. Create Drive Group Settings Screen
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to the drive group. The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0, as shown in Figure 57 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 126: Figure 57. Span 0 Of Drive Group 0
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to the drive group. e. The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in Figure 58 Figure 58. Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 127: Figure 59. Virtual Drive Settings Window
60. The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are now available. Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 128: Figure 60. New Virtual Drive 0
The new storage configuration will be created and initialized. Note: If you create a large configuration using drives that are in powersave mode, it could take several minutes to spin up the drives. A progress bar appears as the ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 129: Figure 62. Option To Create Additional Virtual Drives
If you select Yes, the configuration procedure closes. If you select No, the dialog box closes and you remain on the same page. Figure 63. Option to Close the Configuration Wizard ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 130: Creating A Spanned Disk Group
Creating a Spanned Disk Group Spanning allows you to configure multiple arrays as a single virtual disk. Spanned arrays ® provide additional levels of data redundancy and storage capacity. The Intel RAID Web Console 2 supports three types of spanned arrays or disk groups: •...
Page 131: Creating Hot Spares
To create a global hot spare, follow these steps: ® 1. In the left panel of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window, right-click the icon of disk drive that is not assigned to a storage configuration. If it is assigned to a storage configuration, a check mark is displayed on the disk drive icon.
Page 132: Figure 65. Assign Dedicated Hotspare
Figure 65. Assign Dedicated Hotspare 3. Select the array or disk group to which the hotspare will be dedicated from the list in the pop-up window. Figure 66. Select Hotspare Drive ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 133: Setting Adjustable Task Rates
The higher the number, the faster the patrol read occur.s However, if a higher number is selected, the system I/O rate may be slower. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 134: Adding A Drive To A Virtual Disk
Adding a Drive to a Virtual Disk ® You can use Intel RAID Web Console 2 to increase the capacity of an existing virtual disk by adding physical disk drives to it. In order to do this, you must be logged on to the system in All Access mode.
Page 135: Figure 68. Starting Modify Drive Group
Note: Depending on current RAID level, the targeted migrated RAID level and the available Unconfigured Good drive numbers, pop-up window may appear to allow selection among Add drives, Remove drives, and Migrate RAID level. The following screen appears: ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 136: Figure 70. Selecting Drives To Add
5. When everything is acceptable, click Finish to accept the new configuration. A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. Select Manage -> Show Progress. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 137: Removing A Drive Or Changing The Raid Level Of A Virtual Disk
Virtual Disk ® You can use Intel RAID Web Console 2 to remove a physical disk drive from a virtual disk. In order to do this, you must be logged on to the system in All Access mode.
Page 138: Changing Virtual Disk Properties
1. Select a virtual disk (or drive) icon in the left panel and then select Go To -> Virtual Drive -> Set Virtual Drive Properties. Alternatively, click the Properties panel and then click Set Virtual Disk Properties. Figure 74 shows the Set Virtual Disk Properties screen. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 139: Deleting A Virtual Disk
3. In the menu, select the Go To -> Virtual Drive and click Delete Virtual Drive. 4. When the warning message displays, click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the virtual disk. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 140: Managing Configurations
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 Intel RAID Web Console 2 window. 2. Select Go To -> Controller -> Save Configuration.
Page 141: Figure 76. Save Configuration Dialog Box
The Save dialog box displays as shown in Figure Figure 76. Save Configuration Dialog Box 3. In the dialog box, type a name for the configuration file. 4. Click Save to save the configuration file, or accept the default name: hostname.cfg ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 142: Clearing A Configuration From A Controller
To clear a configuration from a controller, follow these steps: ® 1. Select a controller icon in the left panel of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window. 2. Select Go To -> Controller -> Clear Configuration.
Page 143: Adding A Configuration From A File
To add a saved configuration, follow these steps: ® 1. Select a controller icon in the left panel of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window. 2. Select Go To -> Controller -> Load Configuration. Figure 78. Add Saved Configuration A Warning message displays.
Page 144: Monitoring System Events And Devices
When an “event” occurs—such as the completion of a consistency check or the removal of a physical drive—an event message displays in the log ® at the bottom of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 screen, as shown in Figure 79.
Page 145: Monitoring Controllers
Monitoring Controllers ® When Intel RAID Web Console 2 is running, you can see the status of all controllers in the left panel. If the controller is operating normally, the controller icon looks like this: . If the controller has failed, a small red circle is displayed to the right of the icon.
Page 146: Monitoring Disk Drives And Other Physical Devices
Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices ® When the Intel RAID Web Console 2 is running, you can see the status of all physical disk drives and other physical devices in the left panel. If the physical drive is operating normally, the controller icon looks like this: .
Page 147: Figure 82. Locating A Physical Drive
The LED on the physical disk drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location. Note: LEDs on global or dedicated hot-spare drives do not blink. 4. To stop the disk drive light from blinking, click Stop Locating Drive. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 148: Figure 83. Patrol Read Configuration
6. Enter the Interval at which the Patrol Read will run. 7. If Run Patrol Read non-stop check box is selected, Patrol Read will run continuously. 8. Click OK to enable these Patrol Read options. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 149: Monitoring Virtual Disks
Monitoring Virtual Disks ® When the Intel RAID Web Console 2 is running, you can see the status of all virtual disks. If a virtual disk is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If the virtual disk is running in degraded mode—for example, if a physical disk has failed—a small yellow circle is...
Page 150: Monitoring Battery Backup Units
The display in the Dashboard tab also includes enclosure information in the Properties part. Monitoring Battery Backup Units ® When Intel RAID Web Console 2 software is running, you can monitor the status of all of the BBUs connected to controllers in the server. If a BBU is operating normally, the icon looks like this: .
Page 151: Battery Learn Cycle
Setting Learn Cycle Properties To set the learn cycle properties, perform the following steps: 1. Click the Physical tab to open the physical view. 2. Select the BBU icon in the left panel. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 152: Figure 87. Battery Backup Unit Operations
3. Click the Go To -> BBU tab. The BBU operations appear, as shown in Figure 87 (Depending on different utility version, the BBU operation also may appear in a new pop-up window). 4. Click Start Learn Cycle and click OK. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 153: Monitoring Rebuilds And Other Processes
Start Learn Cycle. Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes ® The Intel RAID Web Console 2 allows you to monitor the progress of rebuilds and other lengthy processes in the Group Show Progress window, shown in Figure 88.
Page 154: Maintaining And Managing Storage Configurations
Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations ® This section explains how to use Intel RAID Web Console 2 to maintain and manage storage configurations. You must log on to the system in Full Access mode to complete these maintenance and management tasks. This following maintenance and management functions can be done: •...
Page 155: Running A Consistency Check
“Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes” on page 139. Note: You can also run a consistency check by selecting the virtual disk icon in the left panel and right- click the option Start Consistency Check. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 156: Scanning For New Drives
RAID Web Console 2 normally detects newly installed disk drives and other ® storage devices and displays icons for them on the main screen. If the Intel RAID Web Console 2 does not detect a new drive, you can use the Scan for Foreign Configuration option to find it.
Page 157: Removing A Drive
Follow these steps to remove a drive safely: 1. Click the icon of the drive in the left panel and right-click it. 2. Select Make Drive Offline. 3. Right-click again and select Mark Drive as Missing. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 158: Flashing The Firmware
RAID controller with Intel RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKDE or AXXRPFKDE2 installed. This feature also requires that Self-Encrypting ® Drives (SEDs) are connected to the RAID controller. Refer to Intel RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD, AXXRPFKDE, and AXXRPFKSNSH Installation Guide (E88588-00x), or ®...
Page 159: Figure 93. Check Controller Security Status
RAID controller is Drive Security capable. Figure 93. Check Controller Security status 2. Select the physical drive and choose Physical tab in the left panel of Intel® RAID Web Console 2. Check Drive Security Properties in the right panel to see whether the RAID controller is Full Disk Encryption capable.
Page 160: Figure 94. Check Drive Security Status
Figure 94. Check Drive Security status 3. Right-click on the controller and select Enable Drive Security. Figure 95. Enable Drive Security 4. In the Security Wizard, click Next. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 161: Figure 96. Start Security Wizard
Figure 96. Start Security Wizard 5. Create the required Security key Identifier. Use the default suggestion, or create your own, then click Next. Figure 97. Enter Security Key Identifier ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 162: Figure 98. Enter Security Key
6. Create the required Security key. Use the default suggestion, or create your own, then click Next. Figure 98. Enter Security Key 7. Create an optional Pass Phrase for additional security, then click Next. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 163: Figure 99. Enter Pass Phrase
Figure 99. Enter Pass Phrase 8. Accept the confirmation to complete the wizard and enable drive security, then click Finish. Figure 100. Confirm Enable Drive Security ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 164: Figure 101. Check Drive Security Enabled Status
9. Controller properties now indicate Drive security enabled is Yes. Figure 101. Check Drive Security Enabled status 10. Select Unconfigured Good drives and select Drive security method, here FDE to create the virtual drive. Figure 102. Select Full Disk Encryption ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 165: Figure 103. Create Raid Virtual Drive With Fde Enabled
RAID virtual drive, and mark all SEDs as Unconfigured Good physical drives. Then select one SED, right- click it and select Instant Erase. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 166: Figure 104. Instant Secure Erase
Figure 104. Instant Secure Erase 13. Accept confirmation to permanently erase disk drive. Figure 105. Confirm Secure Erase ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 167: Enabling Snapshot Feature
® This feature is supported by Intel RAID RAID controller with Intel RAID Premium Feature ® Key AXXRPFKSNSH or AXXRPFKSNSH2 installed. Refer to Intel RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD, AXXRPFKDE, and AXXRPFKSNSH Installation Guide ® (E88588-00x), or Intel RAID Premium Feature Keys AXXRPFKSSD2, AXXRPFKDE2, and AXXRPFKSNSH2 Installation Guide (G29824-00x) for physical installation of the Premium Feature Key.
Page 168: Figure 106. Enable Megaraid Recovery
4. Enter the capacity to use in the Snapshot Repository for changes to the base virtual drive. The available capacity is the largest free block of capacity on the snapshot repository virtual drive. Figure 107. Enter the Capacity for Snapshot Respository ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 169: Figure 108. Confirm Enable Snapshot
The existing snapshots are lost when the feature is disabled. Repository virtual drives will be lost if you disable snapshots. In future development, users will be able to grow the size of the repository dynamically, without losing snapshots. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 170: Figure 109. Snapshot Base Is Shown
10. Click the Logical view on the main menu screen. Click the Snapshot Base virtual drive in the left frame. Click the Snapshots tab in the right frame. Figure 110. Enter Snapshot Name 11. Enter the snapshot name in the Enter snapshot name field. Click Create Snapshot. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 171: Figure 111. Create Snapshot
Snapshot Base details and any existing snapshots). Click Create View. Figure 112. Create View 14. Enter the name of the view in the Enter View name field and the capacity to set aside in the snapshot. Click OK. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 172: Figure 113. Set Megaraid Recovery Properties
Click Go To -> Virtual Drive -> Set MegaRAID Recovery Properties on the menu bar; Check the box to the properties selections you desire and click OK. Figure 113. Set MegaRAID Recovery Properties 21. Follow these steps to Disable MegaRAID Recovery: ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 173: Figure 114. Disable Megaraid Recovery
Snapshot Repository, the rolling back steps can help recover the operating system into a previous status. 24. Reboot the server system and press <Ctrl> + <G> to start the RAID BIOS Console 2 Utility. When you see the screen below, press Start. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 174: Figure 116. Adapter Selection
25. In the home page, from the Logical View in the right panel, click the Snapshot Base which has the operating system installed. Figure 117. Selecting Snapshot Base 26. In the new screen, select Adv Opers (which means Advanced Operations), and click ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 175: Figure 118. Selecting Advanced Operations
Figure 118. Selecting Advanced Operations 27. In the Advanced Operations screen, select Rollback. Figure 119. Selecting Rollback ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 176: Figure 120. Selecting A Snapshot
30. The screen should go back to the display below. Click Home to go back to home page. Then exit the RAID BIOS Console 2 Utility and reboot the server system. You should be able to enter the operating system into a selected previous status. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 177: Enabling Super Sized Cache
® AXXRPFKSSD2 installed. Refer to Intel RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD, ® AXXRPFKDE, and AXXRPFKSNSH Installation Guide (E88588-00x), or Intel RAID Premium Feature Keys AXXRPFKSSD2, AXXRPFKDE2, and AXXRPFKSNSH2 Installation Guide (G29824-00x) for physical installation of the Premium Feature Key. Super Size Cache (SSC) using Solid State Devices (SSD) as controller cache allows for very large data sets to be present in that cache to improve overall application performance.
Page 178: Figure 123. Create Ssc From Dashboard
SSD drive. Click Add > -> Create SSC Drive Group -> Next. Figure 124. Create SSC Drive Group 3. The Create Super Sized Cache Drive screen appears. Click Create to create a SSC drive group. Click Next. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 179: Figure 125. Create Sscd Name
4. Create Super Sized Cache screen appears. Click Finish to confirm the information and create the Super Sized Cache Disk (SSCD). Figure 126. SSC Summary 5. You can see Super Sized Cache Drive Group in the logical view. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 180: Figure 127. Sscd Status Shown
Click Go To -> Virtual Drive -> Delete Virtual Drive on the menu bar. Figure 128. Delete SSCD 7. A confirmation dialog box appears. Check the box next to the Confirm field and click Yes. The SSCD is deleted. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 181: Appendix A: Creating A Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
1. Perform either of the following steps: ® — Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 window and select Create Virtual Drive — Select the controller node and select Operations->Create Virtual Drive in the menu...
Page 182: Figure 130. Virtual Drive Creation Mode
Figure 130. Virtual Drive Creation Mode 2. Click Advanced and press Next. The Create Drive Group Settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 131. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 183: Figure 131. Create Drive Group Settings Screen
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to the drive group. The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0, as shown in Figure 132 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 184: Figure 132. Span 0 Of Drive Group 0
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to the drive group. e. The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in Figure 133 ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 185: Figure 133. Span 0 And Span 1 Of Drive Group 0
The Virtual drive settings window appears, as shown in Figure 134. The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear. The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 186: Figure 134. Virtual Drive Settings Window
135. The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are now available. Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 187: Figure 135. New Virtual Drive 0
Figure 136. Create Virtual Drive Summary Window 7. Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration. The new storage configuration will be created and initialized. ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 188 If you select Yes, the configuration procedure closes. If you select No, the dialog box closes and you remain on the same page. Figure 138. Option to Close the Configuration Wizard ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 189 ® the log displayed at the bottom of the Intel RAID Web Console 2 screen. The messages are also logged in the Microsoft Windows* Application log (Event Viewer). Error event levels are: •...
Page 190: Table 14. Mfi Messages
Flash chip type unknown Critical Flash command set unknown Critical Flash verify failure Info Flush rate changed to %d seconds Info Hibernate command received from host Info Event log cleared Info Event log wrapped ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 191 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable double medium errors (%s at %lx on %s) Critical Consistency Check failed on %s Fatal Consistency Check failed with uncorrectable data on %s Warning Consistency Check found inconsistent parity on %s at strip %lx ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 192 PD %s is not supported Warning Patrol Read corrected medium error on %s at %lx Progress Patrol Read progress on %s is %s Fatal Patrol Read found an uncorrectable medium error on %s at %lx ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 193 SAS topology error: Out of route entries Critical SAS topology error: Index not found Critical SAS topology error: SMP function failed Critical SAS topology error: SMP CRC error Critical SAS topology error: Multiple subtractive ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 194 Battery relearn will start in 4 days Info Battery relearn will start in 2 day Info Battery relearn will start in 1 day Info Battery relearn will start in 5 hours Info Battery removed ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 195 Enclosure (SES) hotplug on %s was detected, but is not supported Info Clustering enabled Info Clustering disabled Info PD too small to be used for auto-rebuild on %s Info BBU enabled; changing WT virtual disks to WB ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 196 NVRAM mismatch occurred Warning SAS wide port %d lost link on PHY %d Info SAS wide port %d restored link on PHY %d Warning SAS port %d, PHY %d has exceeded the allowed error rate ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 197 Warning Battery requires reconditioning; please initiate a LEARN cycle Warning VD %s disabled because RAID-5 is not supported by this RAID key Warning VD %s disabled because RAID-6 is not supported by this controller ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 198 Critical CopyBack failed on PD %s due to source %s error Warning Early Power off warning was unsuccessful Info BBU FRU is %s Info %s FRU is %s Info Controller hardware revision ID %s ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 199 Automatic learn is not enabled Info Drive security key created Info Drive security key backed up Info Drive security key from escrow, verified Info Drive security key changed Warning Drive security key, re-key operation failed ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 200 Controller requests a host bus rescan Info Controller repurposed and factory defaults restored Info Drive security key binding updated Critical Controller encountered a fatal error and was reset Info Snapshots enabled on %s (Repository %s) ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 201 %s is no longer using CacheCade %s Snapshot deleted due to resource constraints for %s in snapshot Critical repository %s Warning Auto Snapshot failed for %s in snapshot repository %s Warning Controller reset on-board expander ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 202 Diagnostics failed for %s Info Server Power capability Diagnostic Test Started Info Drive Cache settings enabled during rebuild for %s Info Drive Cache settings restored after rebuild for %s Info Drive %s commissioned as Emergency spare ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 203 Battery charging was suspended due to high battery temperature Info NVCache firmware update was successful Warning NVCache firmware update failed Fatal %s access blocked as cached data in CacheCade is unavailable Info CacheCade disassociate started on %s ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...
Page 204 Critical SSD Life is exhausted on Slot 65533 Warning SSD Life is at warning level on Slot 65534 Info SSD throttling is now removed on Slot 65535 Info SSD is being throttled on Slot ® Intel RAID Software User’s Guide...

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Intel SC5650BCDP Software User's Manual

Chapter 1: Overview

Chapter 2: RAID Levels

Chapter 3: RAID Utilities

Chapter 4: Intel ® RAID Drivers

Chapter 5: Intel ® Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration Utility

Chapter 6: Intel IT/IR RAID Configuration

Chapter 7: Intel ® RAID BIOS Console 2 Utility

Chapter 8: Intel ® RAID Web Console 2

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