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  • Page 1 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Revison 1.0...
  • Page 2 Please Note: For the most up-to-date version of this manual, please see our web site at www.supermicro.com. Super Micro Computer, Inc. (“Supermicro”) reserves the right to make changes to the product described in this manual at any time and without notice. This product, including software, if any, and documentation may not, in whole or in part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any medium or machine without prior written consent.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines ............1-1 1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines ..............1-1 1-2 General Safety Guidelines ............... 1-1 1-3 An Important Note to Users ............. 1-1 Chapter 2 Connectors, Jumpers and Indicators ....2-1 2-1 Front Connectors and Pin Definitions ..........
  • Page 4 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties ........4-13 Viewing Physical Drive Properties ............4-14 4-8 Forcing Drives Online or Offline ............ 4-14 4-9 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Drive ..........4-14 4-10 Deleting a Virtual Drive ..............
  • Page 5 6-7 Deleting a Virtual Disk ..............6-20 6-8 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk ........6-21 6-9 Clearing a Storage Configuration from a Controller ....6-21 6-10 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration ........6-22 Chapter 7 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced ..........
  • Page 6 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 8-4 Integrated Striping Firmware ............8-3 Metadata Support..................8-3 SMART Support ..................8-3 Disk Write Caching ................. 8-3 8-5 Fusion-MPT Support ................. 8-3 8-6 IS Configuration Overview ............... 8-3 8-7 Creating IS Volumes ................. 8-4 8-8 Creating a Second IS Volume ............

  • Page 7: About This Manual

    Preface About this Manual This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's AOC-USASLP-L8i add-on card to their system. Product Features The AOC-USAS-L8i add-on card offers the following features: • UIO Form Factor •...
  • Page 8 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Contacting SuperMicro Headquarters Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc. 980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: marketing@supermicro.com (General Information) support@supermicro.com (Technical Support) Web Site: www.supermicro.com Europe Address: Super Micro Computer B.V.

  • Page 9: Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines

    Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing or handling the AOC-USASLP-L8i add-on card. ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent damage to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully.
  • Page 10 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Connectors, Jumpers And Indicators

    Connectors, Jumpers and Indicators Front Connectors and Pin Definitions Connectors are used to attach the add-on card to the system’s mainboard. Figure 2-1. AOC-USASLP-L8i Add On Card Front Connectors and Jumpers Table 2-1 lists the add-on card’s front connectors. Table 2-1. Front Connectors and Pin Definitions...

  • Page 12: Front Jumper Locations And Pin Definitions

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions Figure 2-2. Jumper Locations SWR5 To modify the operation of the backplane, jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings. Jumpers create shorts between two pins to change the function of the connector.

  • Page 13: Raid Minimum Drive Requirements

    Table 2-3 to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment in SR mode for the AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card. Use Table 2-4 determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment in IR mode for the AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card.
  • Page 14 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes...

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Raid Modes, Firmware And Drivers

    SR (Software RAID): In this mode you must buy the I-Button feature from SuperMicro to enable RAID level 5 use. First you must create RAID level 0, 1, 5 or 10 from the MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility in order for the OS to see the hard disk drives (this can be done via MSM too, so necessary need to be done in MegaRAID Configuration Utility).

  • Page 16: Getting Firmware Downloads

    The new firmware is now flashed to your system’s BIOS. Downloading RAID Mode Drivers To obtain drivers go to the SuperMicro FTP site and down the appropriate driver for the operating system you are using. The drivers can be found at the following FTP site: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/1064_1068/...

  • Page 17: Activating Raid Modes In Oprom Bios

    Chapter 3: RAID Modes, Firmware and Drivers Activating RAID Modes in OPROM BIOS RAID modes can be activated by pressing keyboard keys in the OPROM BIOS setup. Press CTRL-C for IT or IR mode and CTRL-M for SR mode to activate your system for one of these modes.
  • Page 18 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes...

  • Page 19: Chapter 4 Megaraid Bios Configuration Utility

    The LSI™ MegaRAID® BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) is used to configure disk arrays and virtual drives and to do other configuration tasks in a pre-boot environment. This utility is primarily used for SR Mode configurations for the AOC-USASLP-L8i add-on card.

  • Page 20: Starting The Megaraid Bios Cu

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual The number of physical drives in a specific array determines the possible RAID levels that you can implement with the array. See Section 2-3: "RAID Minimum Drive Requirements" on page 2-3 for further details. Starting the MegaRAID BIOS CU Follow these steps to start the MegaRAID BIOS CU: 1.
  • Page 21 Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Follow the steps below to create a virtual drive using E ONFIGURATION 1. Select C from the M menu. ONFIGURATION ONFIGURATION ANAGEMENT A list of available (READY) physical drives appears. 2. Use the arrow keys to select the physical drives you want to include in the array. a.
  • Page 22 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Figure 4-2. Virtual Drives Configured Screen 4. Highlight RAID and press E NTER The available RAID levels for the current virtual drive are displayed. 5. Select a RAID level for the virtual drive and press E NTER 6.

  • Page 23: Using New Configuration And View/Add Configuration

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration When you select the N menu option, the CU deletes the existing ONFIGURATION arrays and virtual drives and replaces them with the new configuration that you specify. The V menu option lets you view the existing configuration or ONFIGURATION add to the existing configuration, if possible.

  • Page 24: Creating A Global Hotspare Drive

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 8. Highlight RAID and press E NTER A list of the available RAID levels for the current virtual drive appears. 9. Select a RAID level for the virtual drive and press E NTER 10. (Optional) You may also set the logical drive size by highlighting S...

  • Page 25: Initializing Virtual Drives

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility 3. Select an un-configured drive or R drive from the list, and press E EADY NTER 4. When the P menu appears, select M HYSICAL RIVE ROPERTY PARE press E NTER 5. Select Y from the pop-up menu to create the hotspare drive.

  • Page 26: Second Initialization Method

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 5. After the initialization is complete, press E to return to previous menus. If you press E while initialization is in progress, the following options appear: • Stop: (Available only if AutoResume is enabled on the adapter: M...

  • Page 27: Setting The Hard Disk Write Cache And Read Ahead Policies

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility 3. Select I from the submenu and press E NITIALIZE NTER 4. Select Y at the prompt and press E NTER The CU displays a bar graph showing the initialization progress. 5. When initialization completes, press E to return to the previous menu.

  • Page 28: Rebuilding A Drive

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Rebuilding a Drive The MegaRAID BIOS CU enables you to rebuild a drive of a redundant array if the array has a failed drive. If the failed drive is still good (that is, if the drive is physically present and its size is greater than or equal to the defined size of the array) it will be rebuilt.

  • Page 29: Hot Plug Support

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Hot Plug Support MegaRAID BIOS CU supports hot plugging of disk drives. When you insert or remove a disk drive, the following hot plug message appears: A Drive Has Been Inserted/Removed. Configuration Updated. Press ESC... After you press E the inserted or removed drive will be reflected in the list of drives that appears in the configuration utility.

  • Page 30: Viewing And Changing Device Properties

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Checking Data Consistency 1. On the M menu select C and press E ANAGEMENT HECK ONSISTENCY NTER A list of configured virtual drives is displayed. 2. Highlight a virtual drive with the arrow keys. 3. Press the to select the virtual drive to check for consistency.

  • Page 31: Viewing And Changing Adapter Properties

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties To view or change adapter properties, follow these steps: 1. On the M menu, select O ANAGEMENT BJECTS DAPTER 2. Select an adapter from the list. The following list of adapter properties appears: Table 4-1.

  • Page 32: Viewing Physical Drive Properties

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes Viewing Physical Drive Properties To view physical drive properties, follow these steps: 1. On the M menu, select O ANAGEMENT BJECTS HYSICAL RIVE 2. Highlight a physical drive on the list that appears and press E NTER 3.

  • Page 33: 4-11 Clearing A Storage Configuration

    Chapter 4: MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility WARNING: Before you delete a virtual drive, be sure to back up all the data you want to keep. To delete a specified virtual drive, follow these steps: 1. Select O BJECTS IRTUAL RIVE 2.
  • Page 34 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes 4-16...

  • Page 35: Chapter 5 Megaraid Overview And Installation

    Chapter 5 MegaRAID Overview and Installation This chapter explains provides and overview of MegaRAID Storage Manager software, and instructions on how to install (or reinstall) the software on your workstation or server for the supported operating systems. Operationg systems supported include: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, and SUSE Linux.

  • Page 36: Hardware And Software Requirements

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Hardware and Software Requirements The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows: • PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an EM64T (64-bit) processor and at least 128 Mbytes of system memory (256 Mbytes recommended) •...
  • Page 37 Chapter 5: MegaRAID Overview and Installation Figure 5-1. Customer Information Screen 4. Enter your user name and organization name, and in the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: • If you select A , any user with administrative privileges can use this ver- LL USERS sion of MegaRAID Storage Manager software to view or change storage config- urations.
  • Page 38 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Figure 5-2. Setup Type Screen 6. Select one of the Setup options. The options are fully explained in the screen text. • Select C if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on OMPLETE a server.

  • Page 39: Installing For Linux

    Chapter 5: MegaRAID Overview and Installation For example, to connect to a remote framework on server 192.168.0.10, add the IP address to the end of startupui.bat as shown in this example: start JRE\bin\javaw -classpath .;GUI.jar GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog ajsgyqkj=71244 192.168.0.10 Be sure to include a space in front of the IP address, as shown in the above example. Installing for Linux Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux:...
  • Page 40 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual • The version is already installed. This message indicates that the version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software you are trying to install is already installed on the system. • The installed version is newer. This message indicates that a version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on the system, and it is a newer version than the version you are trying to install.

  • Page 41: Chapter 6 Megaraid Window And Menus

    Chapter 6 MegaRAID Window and Menus The MegaRAID Storage Manager software is a configuration and monitoring utility used with the Embedded MegaRAID Software. This chapter provides instruction on its use and features. Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and view the main window: 1.
  • Page 42 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Figure 6-1. Select Server Window If the circle in the server icon is yellow instead of green, it means that the server is running in a degraded state–for example, because a disk drive used in a virtual disk has failed.
  • Page 43 Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Figure 6-2. Server Login Window 3. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu. • Select F if you need to both view the current configuration and CCESS change the configuration. • Select V if you need to only view and monitor the configuration.

  • Page 44: Megaraid Storage Manager Window

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the M RAID S window (Figure 6-3). TORAGE ANAGER Figure 6-3. Storage Manager Window The following sections describe the panels and menu options that appear in this window.

  • Page 45: Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus The following icons in the left panel represent the controllers, disk drives, and other devices: • System • Controller • Port • Array • Virtual disk • Physical drive A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed. A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a degraded state.

  • Page 46: File Menu

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual File Menu The F menu has an E option for exiting from the M RAID S TORAGE ANAGER software. It also has a R option for updating the display in the M RAID ESCAN window. (R is seldom required;...
  • Page 47 Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus WARNING: It is recommended that you do not use both SAS and SATA drives in the same array. Using different drive interfaces in this way could cause unpredictable behavior, decreased performance, an increased error count, and decreased MTBF.

  • Page 48: Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual The menu lists three configuration modes: • Auto Configuration automatically creates an optimal configuration from the available disk drives. • Manual Configuration gives you the greatest level of control in creating a new virtual disk.
  • Page 49 Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Figure 6-5. Auto Configuration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Auto Configuration mode: 1. Select a redundancy option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the A screen: ONFIGURATION •...

  • Page 50: Using Guided Configuration

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 3. (Optional) Click M if you want to switch to Manual Configuration mode so you ODIFY can modify the suggested Auto Configuration. When you click M , the V screen appears. In this screen ODIFY...
  • Page 51 Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Guided Configuration mode: 1. Select a redundancy option at the top of the G screen: UIDED ONFIGURATION • Redundancy Only: This option creates a configuration only if redundancy (RAID 1 or RAID 5) is possible.
  • Page 52 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 4. Click N to continue to the next screen (see Figure 6-7). Figure 6-7. Second Guided Configuration Screen 5. Change the default volume parameters in this screen, if needed. In the top section of the window you can specify the number of virtual disks to create. You can also choose to use less than the full capacity of this array for the virtual disk(s).

  • Page 53: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 0

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0 Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Figure 6-8 shows the first screen that appears when you select M ANUAL ONFIGURATION Figure 6-8.
  • Page 54 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 3. Click N The D screen of the Configuration Wizard appears, as shown EFINING A IRTUAL Figure 6-9. Figure 6-9. Defining a Virtual Disk Screen The A menu lists the new array that you just defined, plus any existing arrays RRAYS with holes (free space) that could be used for a new configuration.

  • Page 55: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 1

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus NOTE: Click the R button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just ECLAIM defined. 9. Click N to continue with the next configuration step. The V IRTUAL UMMARY screen appears. 10.

  • Page 56: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 5

    Using Manual Configuration: RAID 5 Follow these steps to create a RAID 5 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. You must buy the I-Button feature from SuperMicro to enable RAID level 5 use. 1. In the first M screen...

  • Page 57: Using Manual Configuration: Raid 10

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus 9. Click N to continue with the next configuration step. The V IRTUAL UMMARY screen appears. 10. Review the configuration shown in the V screen. If you want to IRTUAL UMMARY change something, click B and change the configuration parameters.

  • Page 58: Adding Or Deleting A Hotspare Disks

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Adding or Deleting a Hotspare Disks Hotspares are disk drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 virtual disk. Each virtual disk can have one dedicated hotspare.

  • Page 59: Changing Adjustable Task Rates

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Make sure the capacity of the hotspare drive is equal to or larger than the capacity of the disks in the array and that it is the same type of drive (SAS or SATA). NOTE: The hotspare drive will rebuild a failed drive even if it is SAS and the array drives are SATA, or vice versa.

  • Page 60: Changing Virtual Disk Properties

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Each task rate can be set from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the faster the activity will run in the background, possibly impacting other system tasks. 4. Click G to accept the new task rates.

  • Page 61: Saving A Storage Configuration To Disk

    Chapter 6: MegaRAID Window and Menus Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk 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 from the left panel of the M RAID S TORAGE ANAGER...

  • Page 62: 6-10 Adding A Saved Storage Configuration

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 6-10 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration When you replace a controller, or when you want to duplicate an existing storage configuration on a new controller, you can add a saved configuration to the controller. WARNING: When you add a saved configuration to a replacement controller, be sure that the number and size of the physical disks connected to the controller are exactly the same as when the configuration was saved.

  • Page 63: Chapter 7 Integrated Mirroring And Integrated Mirroring Enhanced

    Chapter 7 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced This chapter provides an overview of the Integrated Mirroring (IM) and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) features. The chapter also explains how to create Integrated Mirroring (IM) and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME) volumes using the SAS BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS BIOS CU), which is used to setup IR Mode.

  • Page 64: Im And Ime Features

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual IM and IME Features IM and IME support the following features: • Configurations of one or two IM or IME volumes on the same SAS controller. IM volumes have two mirrored disks; IME volumes have three to ten mirrored disks.
  • Page 65 Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Figure 7-1. Typical Integrated Mirroring Implementation IM Volume Primary Mirror NVSRAM (For Write Journaling ) LSI Fusion -MPT Memory Bus Controller Flash (For Configuration ) The advantage of an IM/IME volume is that there is always a second, mirrored copy of the data.

  • Page 66: Integrated Raid Firmware

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Figure 7-3. Integrated Mirroring Enhanced with Three Disks Logical View Physical View Mirrored Stripe 1 Mirrored Stripe 1 Mirrored Stripe 2 Mirrored Stripe 3 Mirrored Stripe 2 Mirrored Stripe 3 Mirrored Stripe 1 Mirrored Stripe 2...

  • Page 67: Smart Support

    Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Following a hot swap event, the firmware readies the new physical disk by spinning it up and verifying that it has enough capacity for the mirrored volume. The firmware resynchronizes all hot-swapped disks that have been removed, even if the same disk is re-inserted.

  • Page 68: Fusion-Mpt Support

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Fusion-MPT Support The BIOS uses the LSI Fusion-MPT® interface to communicate to the SAS controller and firmware to enable IM and IME volumes. This includes reading the Fusion-MPT configuration to access the parameters that are used to define behavior between the SAS controller and the devices connected to it.

  • Page 69: Creating An Im Volume

    Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced • An IM volume must have two drives. An IME volume can have three to ten drives. 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.
  • Page 70 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 2. Press E to go to the A screen, as shown in Figure 7-5 NTER DAPTER ROPERTIES below: Figure 7-5. Adapter Properties Screen...
  • Page 71 Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced 3. On the A screen, use the arrow keys to select RAID P DAPTER ROPERTIES ROPERTIES on the screen and press E NTER The S screen appears (Figure 7-6). ELECT RRAY Figure 7-6. Select New Array Type Screen...
  • Page 72 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 4. In the S screen (Figure 7-6), select C IM V ELECT RRAY REATE OLUME The C screen appears (Figure 7-7). This screen shows a list of REATE RRAY disks available to be added to a volume.

  • Page 73: Creating An Ime Volume

    Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced 8. When the volume has been fully configured, press C and then S . Then HANGES exit this menu to commit the changes. The SAS BIOS CU pauses while the array is being created. Creating an IME Volume Follow these steps to create an IME volume with the SAS BIOS CU: 1.

  • Page 74: Managing Hot Spares

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 3. On the A screen, use the arrow keys to select RAID P DAPTER ROPERTIES ROPERTIES and press E NTER 4. Continue with step 4 "Creating an IM Volume" on page 7-7 step 4 "Creating an IME Volume"...

  • Page 75: Other Configuration Tasks

    Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced If SATA disks are used for the IM/IME volume(s), the hot spare disk must also be a SATA disk. If SAS disks are used, the hot spare disk must also be a SAS disk. An error message appears if the selected disk is not the same type as the disks used in the IM/IME volumes.

  • Page 76: Activating An Array

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Follow these steps to force the synchronization of a selected array: 1. Select S on the M screen (Figure 7-8). YNCHRONIZE RRAY ANAGE RRAY 2. Press Y to start the synchronization, or N to cancel it.

  • Page 77: Locating Drives In A Volume

    Chapter 7: Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Locating Drives in a Volume You can use the SAS BIOS CU to locate and identify a specific physical disk drive by flashing the drive’s LED. You can also use the SAS BIOS CU to flash the LEDs of all the disk drives in a RAID volume.
  • Page 78 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes 7-16...

  • Page 79: Chapter 8 Integrated Striping

    Chapter 8 Integrated Striping This chapter provides an overview of the LSI Integrated Striping™ (IS) feature and explains how to create Integrated Striping (IS) volumes using the SAS BIOS Configuration Utility (SAS BIOS CU), which is used to setup IR Mode. Introduction The Integrated Striping (IS) feature is used for applications that require the faster performance and increased storage capacity of striping.

  • Page 80: Is Description

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual • SES status LED support for drives used in IS volumes IS Description The IS feature writes data across multiple disks instead of onto one disk. This is accomplished by partitioning each disk’s storage space into 64-KB stripes. These stripes are interleaved round-robin, so that the combined storage space is composed alternately of stripes from each disk.

  • Page 81: Integrated Striping Firmware

    Chapter 8: Integrated Striping Integrated Striping Firmware This section describes features of the Integrated RAID firmware. Metadata Support The firmware supports metadata, which describes the IS logical drive configuration stored on each member disk. When the firmware is initialized, each member disk is queried to read the stored metadata to verify the configuration.

  • Page 82: Creating Is Volumes

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual The supported stripe size is 64 kilobytes. Refer to Section 8-2: "IS Features" on page 8-1 for more information about Integrated Striping volumes. Creating IS Volumes The SAS BIOS CU is part of the Fusion-MPT BIOS. When the BIOS loads during boot and you see the message about the Configuration Utility, press Ctrl-C to start it.
  • Page 83 Chapter 8: Integrated Striping Creating IS Volumes 1. On the A screen of the SAS BIOS CU, use the arrow keys to select a DAPTER SAS adapter. 2. Press E to go to the A screen (Figure 8-3). NTER DAPTER ROPERTIES Figure 8-3.
  • Page 84 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual 4. When you are prompted to select a volume type, select C IS V REATE OLUME The C screen (Figure 8-4) that appears shows a list of disks that REATE RRAY can be added to a volume.

  • Page 85: Creating A Second Is Volume

    Chapter 8: Integrated Striping Creating a Second IS Volume SAS controllers allow you to configure two IS volumes, or an IS volume and an IM/IME volume. If one volume is already configured, and if there are available disk drives, there are two ways to add a second volume.

  • Page 86: Deleting An Array

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Follow these steps to activate a selected array. 1. Select A on the M screen. CTIVATE RRAY ANAGE RRAY 2. Press Y to proceed with the activation, or press N to abandon it. After a pause, the array will become active.

  • Page 87: Selecting A Boot Disk

    Chapter 8: Integrated Striping Selecting a Boot Disk You can select a boot disk in the SAS T screen. This disk is then moved to scan OPOLOGY ID 0 on the next boot, and remains at this position. This makes it easier to set BIOS boot device options and to keep the boot device constant during device additions and removals.
  • Page 88 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Notes 8-10...

  • Page 89: Chapter 9 Using The Cfggen Ir Configuration Utility

    Chapter 9 Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility This Chapter describes how to use the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility to create Integrated Mirroring (IM), Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (IME), and Integrated Striping (IS) volumes on SAS controllers. CFGGEN is a command line utility that runs in the DOS, Linux, EFI, and Windows Pre-Installation (WinPE) environments.

  • Page 90: Cfggen Interface Description

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual WARNING: The modules mptbase.o, mptscsih.o and mptctl.o must be loaded into the Linux kernel before CFGGEN will function correctly. They can be loaded using the Linux modprobe command. • WinPE – CFGGEN runs in Windows Pre-Installation Environment (WinPE) and is statically compiled with the LSI MptLib Library (MptLib.lib).

  • Page 91: Common Command Line Parameters

    Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility • Text surrounded by <> must be replaced with a required parameter. • Text surrounded by [ ] may be replaced by an optional parameter. • Parameters surrounded by {} must be entered one or more times, as is appropriate for the command being executed.
  • Page 92 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual The following rules must be observed when creating IM, IME, and IS volumes and hot spare disks: 1. All disks that are part of a volume, including global hot spares, must be on the same SAS controller.

  • Page 93: Defaults Command

    Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility DEFAULTS Command NOTE: This command is called DELETE in the EFI version of CFGGEN. The DEFAULTS (DELETE) command deletes any IM, IME, and IS volumes and hot spare drives created by the CREATE and HOTSPARE commands. No other controller configuration parameters are changed.
  • Page 94 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Program Return Value – 0x00 SUCCESS: command completed successfully. 0x01 FAILURE: bad command line arguments or operational failure. Sample Output – The following example shows a sample output of the CREATE command when used to create an IM configuration.
  • Page 95 Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility Manufacturer : MAXTOR Model Number : ATLAS15K2_036SAS Firmware Revision : BG31 Serial No : E204EY1K Drive Type : SAS Target on SCSI ID 8 Enclosure # Slot # Device is a Hard disk SCSI ID State : Hot Spare (HSP)

  • Page 96: Format Command

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual • Inactive, Okay (OKY) – Volume is inactive and drives are functioning properly. User data is protected if the current RAID level is RAID 1 (IM) or RAID 1E (IME). • Inactive, Degraded (DGD) – Volume is inactive and the user’s data is not fully protected due to a configuration change or drive failure;...

  • Page 97: Hotspare Command

    Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility • noprompt – Suppresses display of warnings and prompts. Program Return Value – 0x00 SUCCESS: command completed successfully. 0x01 FAILURE: command failed. HOTSPARE Command The HOTSPARE command creates a hot spare disk drive. One or two hot spare disk can be created per controller.

  • Page 98: Setoffline Command

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual Parameters – • <controller #> – Number of the SAS controller targeted by this command. Program Return Value – 0x00 SUCCESS: command completed successfully. 0x01 FAILURE: command failed. Sample Output – Here is an example of the status information returned when a volume resynchronization is in progress: Background command progress status for controller 0...

  • Page 99: Setonline Command

    Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility The SETOFFLINE command makes a physical disk in a volume offline. A physical disk that is taken offline changes its state to Failed (FLD), but the disk is still associated with the volume and therefore cannot be addressed by normal I/O requests. If a new disk replaces an offline disk, the new disk is automatically brought online.
  • Page 100 AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual When a disk drive is added to an IM, IME, or IS volume, its entire storage capacity may or may not be used, depending on drive capacity and volume capacity. For example, if you add a 36-GB disk drive to a volume that only uses 9-GB of capacity on each disk drive, the remaining 27-GB of capacity on the disk drive are unusable.

  • Page 101: Disableir Command (Efi Version Only)

    Chapter 9: Using the CFGGEN IR Configuration Utility DISABLEIR Command (EFI Version Only) The DISABLEIR command, which is currently supported only in the EFI version of CFGGEN, disables Integrated RAID functionality on the supported SAS controller chips. This is done by setting the MPI_IOUNITPAGE1_DISABLE_IR bit in the IO Unit 1 MPT Configuration Page.

  • Page 102: List Command (Efi Version Only)

    AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual LIST Command (EFI Version Only) The LIST command, which is currently supported only in the EFI version of CFGGEN, displays a list of all controllers present in the system, along with their corresponding controller #.
  • Page 103 Disclaimer The products sold by Supermicro are not intended for and will not be used in life support systems, medical equipment, nuclear facilities or systems, aircraft, aircraft devices, aircraft/emergency communication devices or other critical systems whose failure to perform be reasonably expected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage.
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