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ST1100FS0000
ST1100FR0000
ST550FR0000
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June 2013

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  • Page 1 User Guide Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows ® Powered by Virident ST2200FS0000 ST1100FS0000 ST1100FR0000 ST550FR0000 100728273 Rev. A June 2013...
  • Page 2 Publication number: 100728273, Rev. A June 2013 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Seagate X8 Accelerator and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    End User License Agreement for Seagate® Software ........
  • Page 4 Contacting Support ............33 Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows User Guide, Rev. A...

  • Page 5: End User License Agreement For Seagate Software

    Third Party Services is subject to your agreement with the applicable third party service provider. Except as expressly stated herein, this EULA does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Product. Seagate and its suppliers reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
  • Page 6 EULA. If you receive an Update, you may continue to use the previous version(s) of the Software in your possession, custody or control. Seagate shall have no obligation to support the previous versions of the Software upon availability of an Update.
  • Page 7 (c)(1) and (2) of 48 CFR 52.227-19 (Commercial Computer Product- Restricted Rights), as applicable. The manufacturer is Seagate. You may not transfer or assign this EULA or any rights under this EULA, except that you may make a one-time, permanent transfer of this EULA and the Software to another end user, provided that (i) you do not retain any copies of the Software, the Hardware, the media and printed materials, Upgrades (if any), and this EULA, and (ii) prior to the transfer, the end user receiving this EULA and the Software agrees to all the EULA terms.

  • Page 8: Introduction

    Seagate X8 Accelerator enables enterprises to tackle performance-intensive applications such as databases, business analytics, virtualization and high-performance computing applications. This document explains how to install, configure, and manage Seagate X8 Accelerator devices with software version 3.2 on Windows based systems.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    ELECTION Seagate X8 Accelerator devices need to be installed in x8 or x16 PCIe Gen 2 slots. If no PCIe x8/x16 slots are available, x4 slots can be used. However, using an x4 slot may result in up to 50% reduction in performance.

  • Page 10: System Bios Settings

    BIOS S YSTEM ETTINGS After a system restart, prior to booting the operating system, enter the system BIOS setup to verify several important settings. Note that each BIOS often has its own nomenclature for these settings, so the exact wording of the configuration parameters may not match the examples.

  • Page 11: Installing X8 Accelerator Driver And Utilities

    Administrator” and for Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 run the command msiexec /i “Path to X8 Accelerator.msi” to launch the installer. Seagate X8 Accelerator drivers for Windows are provided as a standard “MSI” installation package. Double-click on the file to begin, and follow the prompts.
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  • Page 13: Windows Power Modes For Performance

    Verify the Device Driver is Loaded and Functioning After the system has rebooted, the Seagate X8 Accelerator Drive should be visible in the device manager in the following sections: Also, please use the X8 Accelerator Manager to configure and manage the device (Section 5.0).

  • Page 14: Configuration And Management Of The X8 Accelerator Device

    Seagate devices present in the system. In the above example, the Seagate X8 Accelerator device in the system is vgca. The device name always starts with ‘vgc’. The top half of this panel displays the Health information, Version information, Serial and Model numbers, and Location and Beacon information.

  • Page 15: Details Displayed

    6.1.1 Details Displayed: X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS UIDE...

  • Page 16: X8 Accelerator Device Details

    X8 Accelerator Device Details To check the details of any specific X8 Accelerator device, click on the device name listed on the left panel of the snapin. In the following example, the details of the device vgca are displayed. Beacon can be switched on or off as shown above. Beacon can be used to identify a particular device in a system with multiple devices.

  • Page 17: Device Mappings

    Device Mappings Each Partition on the X8 Accelerator device is mapped to a Windows Disk as shown below. The following example has two partitions mapped to two Windows disks; disk4 and disk5. To use the X8 Accelerator device, create a Logical Drive. Eg, E: and H: etc.
  • Page 18 Right Click on the Offline Disk and Choose “Online”. To initialize the disks, Right Click and Select “initialize Disk”. When prompted, please select "GPT." If you select "MBR" the maximum size will only be 2 TB. GPT is recommended for 2.2TB devices if the max capacity of the device needs to be utilized. X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR...

  • Page 19: Device Configuration

    Once the device is online and initialized, you may create partitions and assign drive letters or mount points as you would with any other volume. Device Configuration This section will show you how to ‘Reset’ your device to factory defaults, Create a new partition, Modify the existing partition.
  • Page 20 Click OK to confirm. Choose Yes to confirm. Reset commences. X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS UIDE...

  • Page 21: Creating A New Partition

    Creating a New Partition To create a new partition on Seagate X8 Accelerator device, click on Split vgc[a, b, c, ---] at the bottom of the device page. This will create a new partition on device vgc[a, b, c, ---]. Split Partition allows you to change mode.
  • Page 22 Choose either Maximum Capacity or Maximum Performance Choose Yes to proceed. X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS UIDE...

  • Page 23: Modify Existing Partition

    Modify Existing Partition To modify existing partition on Seagate X8 Accelerator device, click on Modify vgc[a, b, c, ---][0-1] Physical Partition layout. The only setting that can be modified on the partition is Mode. Mode can be changed to either Max Performance or Max Capacity.
  • Page 24 Choose the mode using the radio button. Confirm by selecting Yes. Modify configuration complete in progress. Modify configuration is complete Once the partition is modified, user can check the new settings of partition under Physical Partition tab. X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS UIDE...

  • Page 25: Verifying Performance

    To run, open a command window (as a Local Administrator) and change to the directory containing the TEST.EXE file. Execute “test X”, where X is replaced with the drive letter assigned to the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive. The test will create a 4GB test file and exercise reads and writes to that file.
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  • Page 27: Command Line Utilities

    Command Line Utilities Partitioning and Configuring with vgc-config Most Administrative tasks for the Seagate X8 Accelerator devices are handled by the “vgc-config” utility. This utility can be used to show the current partitioning and write acceleration modes on an existing drive.

  • Page 28: Vgc-Config Drive Settings

    8.2.1 vgc-config Drive Settings The entire drive is modified when "-d vgca" is specified, and the following options may be used. For more discussion and examples using the following options see the subsequent sections in this document. Following example shows “Creating Partitions”. 8.2.2 vgc-config Partition Settings Individual partitions may be customized using “-p vgca[0|1]”...

  • Page 29: Usable Space Vs. Write Performance Trade-Offs

    To refine application performance, Seagate allows customizing the ratio of usable data to write acceleration area. By increasing the amount set aside for writes in “maxperformance” mode, the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive is able to sustain an even higher write workload at the cost of reduced usable capacity. Conversely, by decreasing the amount set aside for write acceleration in “maxcapacity”...

  • Page 30: Vgc-Monitor

    To display more detailed information about a specific device, specify the device using the ‘-d’ parameter as follows: The first section of the monitor output shows physical characteristics of the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive such as raw device size, serial numbers, and overall device health.

  • Page 31: Vgc-Secure-Erase

    For example, the standards for magnetic disk media are different than what is required for flash memory. Seagate has a Secure Erase Utility that will perform this function for customers who need to securely erase data from a device.

  • Page 32: Dynamic Throttling

    Command syntax: Example: YNAMIC HROTTLING Dynamic throttling prevents unplanned or abrupt device shutdowns by lowering the IO performance of devices if power consumption and/ or temperature of increases. Dynamic throttling is split into parts: thermal and power throttling. HERMAL HROTTLING Thermal throttling reduces IO performance of X8 Accelerator devices if temperature goes above the default threshold (T[throttle], default: 78°C).
  • Page 33 vgc-monitor.exe -d vgca You can also refer to X8 Accelerator Manager to verify the status of Temperature Throttling. X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS UIDE...

  • Page 34: Application Notes

    LIGNMENTS The Seagate X8 Accelerator drive exposes 512 byte sectors, but is internally organized in 4K byte sectors (similar to the new Advanced Format hard drives). This means data writes of blocks smaller than 4096 will involve read-modify-write cycles on the flash and be correspondingly slower than access of native-block size and above.
  • Page 35 Ensure the test data alignment is set to 4K bytes for tested Access Specifications. By default, accesses are sector (512b) aligned and, as discussed previously, this can result in lower than expected performance. The required option is highlighted below: X8 A EAGATE CCELERATOR FOR INDOWS...

  • Page 36: Troubleshooting

    /var/lib/vgc/loading.lck” Solution: Remove the “loading.lck” file and issue a “service vgcd start”. In case you are not sure how lck file is created, please contact Seagate support. 3) “vgcd: FATAL: Module vgcdrive not found.” Solution: Uninstall the rpms (driver and utilities) by running “rpm -aq | grep vgc | xargs rpm –ev”. And then re-install the rpms.
  • Page 37 NBOARD IAGNOSTIC There are two onboard LEDS on the Seagate X8 Accelerator device. They are visible through the back bracket and always indicate the state of the system. The following table explains what each combination of these LEDs indicates: 13.0 C...
  • Page 38 NDEX Application Notes 30 Reset (to factory defaults) Bracket Installation 5 Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager 10 Single Board 5 Software EULA 1 System BIOS Settings 6 Cannot Find Block Device /dev/vgca0 32 System Requirements 4 Command Line Utilities 23 Command syntax...
  • Page 39 Seagate Technology LLC 10200 South De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, California 95014, United States, 408-658-1000 ASIA/PACIFIC Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology SAS 16-18 rue du Dôme, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 33 1-4186 10 00 Publication Number: 100728273, Rev.

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