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ARC-12x5 Series

(PCIe 3.0 to 6Gb/s SAS RAID Controllers)

6Gb/s SAS RAID Cards

Quick Start Guide

Version: 1.1

Issue Date: December, 2014

Summary of Contents for ARC-12x5 Series

Page 1: ...ARC 12x5 Series PCIe 3 0 to 6Gb s SAS RAID Controllers 6Gb s SAS RAID Cards Quick Start Guide Version 1 1 Issue Date December 2014 ...

Page 2: ...uant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in terference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur in...

Page 3: ...AS Cables 21 2 4 1 Internal Min SAS 4i to SATA Cable 21 2 4 2 Internal Min SAS 4i to 4xSFF 8482 Cable 22 2 4 3 Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 to Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 cable 22 2 4 4 External Min SAS 4x Drive Boxes and Drive Expanders 23 2 5 LED Cables 24 2 5 1 Recognizing a Drive Failure 27 2 5 2 Replacing a Failed Drive 28 2 6 Summary of the installation 28 ...

Page 4: ... no expander support on those boards this can meet the customer inquiry SAS solution using same enclosure to replace SATA solution The ARC 1215 4i 4x and ARC 1225 8i 8x RAID controllers only support directly attach to 4 8 SAS SATA drives without supporting the expand function The ARC 12x5 series default support 1GB on board ECC DDR3 1333 SDRAM memory The ARC 12x5 4i 8i RAID controllers are low pro...

Page 5: ... two parity blocks and get very similar RAID 5 performance The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers can also provide RAID levels 0 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD for maximum con figuration flexibility Its high data availability and protection derives from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Expansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Global Online Spare Automatic ...

Page 6: ... RAID status from standard web browser The Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility can support one applica tion to scan multiple RAID units in the network 1 2 Features Controller Architecture Dual Core RAID on Chip ROC 800 MHz processor PCIe 3 0 x8 lane host interface 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM with ECC Write through or write back cache support Support up to 4 8 internal or 4 8 external 6Gb s SA...

Page 7: ...ryption support Support intelligent power management to save energy and ex tend service life Monitors Notification System status indication through global HDD activity fault con nector individual activity fault connector LCD I2C connector and alarm buzzer SMTP support for email notification SNMP support for remote manager Enclosure management serial bus and SGPIO ready RAID Management Field upgrad...

Page 8: ...from the software CD or from the Areca website 6Gb s SAS RAID Controllers Model Name ARC 1215 4i ARC 1225 8i I O Processor Dual Core RAID on Chip ROC 800 MHz Processor Form Factor Low Profile 64 4 H x 169 5 L mm Host Bus Type PCIe 3 0 x 8 Lanes Driver Connector 1 x SFF 8087 2 x SFF 8087 Drive Support 4 x SAS SATA 8 x SAS SATA RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 6 Single Disk or JBOD 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single...

Page 9: ...Processor Form Factor Low Profile 64 4 H x 169 5 L mm Host Bus Type PCIe 3 0 x 8 Lanes Driver Connector 1 x SFF 8088 2 x SFF 8088 Drive Support 4 x SAS SATA 8 x SAS SATA RAID Level 0 1 10 3 5 6 Single Disk or JBOD 0 1 10 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD On Board Cache 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM with ECC Management Port In Band PCIe Out of Band BIOS and LCD Optional Enclosure Ready External Ser...

Page 10: ...mation package list carefully before you begin installing Package Contents If your package is missing any of the items listed below con tact your local dealers before you install Disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included 1 x 6Gb s SAS RAID controller in an ESD protective bag 1 x Installation CD containing driver relative software an electronic version of this manual and other related...

Page 11: ...r 4 pin header 4 J4 Global Fault Activity LED 4 pin header 5 J2 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 6 J1 Manufacture Purpose Port 12 pin header 7 J3 I 2 C LCD Connector 8 pin header 8 SCN1 SAS 1 4 Ports Internal SFF 8087 9 SCN2 SAS 5 8 Ports Internal SFF 8087 Table 2 1 ARC 1215 4i ARC 1225 8i connectors Figure 2 1 ARC 1215 4i ARC 1225 8i Top View ...

Page 12: ... 2 2 ARC 1215 4x ARC 1225 8x Connector Type Description 1 J1 Battery Backup Module Connector 12 pin box header 2 J2 Manufacture Purpose Port 10 pin header 3 J5 I 2 C LCD Connector RS232 Male Connector 4 SCN1 SAS 1 4 Ports External SFF 8088 5 SCN2 SAS 5 8 Ports External SFF 8088 ...

Page 13: ...x1 x4 x8 and x16 signal with x8 or x16 mechanical slot M B Installation Tools The following items may be needed to assist with installing the 6Gb s SAS SATA RAID controller into an available PCIe expansion slot Small screwdriver Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Instructions Use the following safety instructions to help you protect y...

Page 14: ...tem chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity Warning High voltages may be found inside computer equipment Be fore installing any of the hardware in this package or remov ing the protective covers of any computer equipment turn off power switches and disconnect power cords Do not re connect the power cords until you have replaced the covers 2 3 Installation Use the fol...

Page 15: ...the computer chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is connected to either the cage backplane or the individual drives Step 3 Install the PCIe 6Gb s SAS RAID Cards To install the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCIe 3 0 slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with ...

Page 16: ...ives are directly connected to 6Gb s SAS system backplane The number of SAS SATA drives is limited to the number of slots available on the backplane Step 5 Install SAS Cable This section describes SAS cable how to connect on controller Figure 2 4 Connecting to HDD ...

Page 17: ...GPIO bus For backplane without SGPIO supporting Please refer to Section 2 4 LED cables for fault activity LED cable installation LED Management The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the out side of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SAS drive tray A small microcontroller on the backplane connected via the SGPIO bus to a 6Gb ...

Page 18: ...gnal defines the sideband connector which can work with Areca sideband cable on its SFF 8087 to 4 SATA cable The sideband header is located at backplane For SGPIO to work properly please connect Areca 8 pin sideband cable to the sideband header as shown below See the table for pin definitions Note For lastest release versions of drivers please download from http www areca com tw support main htm T...

Page 19: ... installation Please refer to Chapter 4 Diver Installation of the user manual for the detailed installation procedure In an existing system To install the controller driver into the existing operating system For the detailed installation procedure please refer to the Chap ter 4 Diver Installation of the user manual for the detailed installation procedure Step 11 Install ArcHttp Proxy Server The 6G...

Page 20: ...allow this change your system may be not configurable to allow the 6Gb s SAS RAID con troller to act as a second boot device For Intel based Mac system Areca controller has supported the EFI BIOS on the PCIe 3 0 6Gb s SAS RAID controller You have other alternatively to add volumes on the Intel based Mac bootable device listing You can follow the following procedures to add 6Gb s SAS RAID controlle...

Page 21: ...ller internal connectors and connectors on the SAS SATA disk drives or SAS SATA connector backplane The ARC 1215 4i 1225 8i has 1 2 Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 internal connectors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA drives These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with standard SATA connectors backplane The following diagram shows the picture of Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cables Bac...

Page 22: ...nternal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 to Internal Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 cable The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers have 1 2 Min SAS 4i internal SFF 8087 connectors each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with Min SAS 4i internal connectors backplane This Min SAS 4i cable has eight signal pins to support four SAS SATA drives and six pins for ...

Page 23: ...in SAS 4x external cables are used for connection between the 6Gb s SAS controller external connectors and connectors on the external drive boxes or drive expanders JBOD The 6Gb s SAS controller has Min SAS 4x SFF 8088 external connector each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals Figure 2 9 Min SAS 4x to Min SAS 4x cable ...

Page 24: ...s cathode side The following diagrams and descriptions describe each type of con nector Note A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer system Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them A Individual Activity Fault LED and Global Indicator Con nector Most of the backplane has supported the HDD activity from the HDD The 6Gb s SAS R...

Page 25: ... only a single global indicator attach the LED to the two pins of the global activity cache write pending connector The global fault pin pair connector is the overall fault signal This signal will light up in any disk drive failure The following diagrams show all LEDs connectors and pin locations Figure 2 10 ARC 1215 4i 1225 8i LED Indicator Con nector B Areca Serial Bus Connector You can also con...

Page 26: ...llowing picture and table is the serial bus signal name de scription for LCD fault activity LED C External Serial Bus Connector You also can connect the external serial bus interface on the ARC 1215 4x and ARC 1225 8x to a proprietary SAS backplane enclosure This signal provide the drive status information including activity fault LED The following picture is the external serial bus signal name de...

Page 27: ... removed or replaced with a different disk without taking the system off line The RAID rebuilding will be processed automatically in the background When a disk is hot swap the RAID controller may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the hot swap drive is subsequently replaced and the rebuild operation is completed 2 5 1 Recognizing a Drive Failure A drive failure can be i...

Page 28: ...ID volume through the McBIOS McRAID manager OS installation and installa tion of 6Gb s SAS RAID controller software 2 5 2 Replacing a Failed Drive With RAID subsystem drive tray you can replace a defective physical drive while your computer is still operating When a new drive has been installed data reconstruction will be automatically started to rebuild the contents of the disk drive The controll...

Page 29: ... installation and start up of this function see the ArcHTTP Proxy Server Installation section in Chapter 5 of the user manual CLI Utility CLI Command Line Interface lets you set up and manage RAID controller through a command line interface CLI performs many tasks at the command line You can download CLI manual from Areca website or software CD CDROM DOCS directory Configuration Utility Operating ...

Page 30: ... up this function see the section 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration of the user manual In Band Using PCIe Host Bus Interface In band interface refers to management of the SNMP data of 6Gb s SAS controllers from a PCIe host bus In band interface is simpler than out of band interface for it requires less hard ware in its configuration Since the 6Gb s SAS RAID controller is already installed in the host syste...

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