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Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5

Board components .................................................................................................................................... 5

SAS/SATA connectors on the front of the board .................................................................................. 5

SAS/SATA connectors on the back of the board.................................................................................. 6

Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 6

Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 8

Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 8

Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................ 8

Installing the controller hardware .................................................................................................. 10

Before beginning the installation ............................................................................................................... 10

Preparing the server................................................................................................................................. 10

Installing the controller board.................................................................................................................... 10

Connecting storage devices ...................................................................................................................... 11

Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 12

Methods for updating the firmware ............................................................................................................ 12

Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 13

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 13

Comparing the utilities ............................................................................................................................. 13

Using ORCA........................................................................................................................................... 14

Using ACU ............................................................................................................................................. 15

Using CPQONLIN................................................................................................................................... 15

Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................ 15

Expanding an array....................................................................................................................... 16

Adding or configuring spare drives.................................................................................................. 16

Migrating RAID level and stripe size online ....................................................................................... 17

Setting the boot controller and controller order ............................................................................... 18

Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 18

Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................ 18

Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 19

Installing device drivers ............................................................................................................................ 19

Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 19

Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 20

Installing or replacing a battery................................................................................................................. 20

Installing a battery ......................................................................................................................... 20

Replacing a battery ....................................................................................................................... 21

Upgrading the cache ............................................................................................................................... 22

Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives ..................................................................................... 24

Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 24

Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 25

Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 26

Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 26

Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 26

Replacing hard drives .............................................................................................................................. 27

Factors to consider before replacing hard drives................................................................................ 27

Automatic data recovery (rebuild) .................................................................................................... 27

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