Asus PIKE 2208 User Manual Download

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ASUS PIKE 2208

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4. Click the

Driver

tab on the top, then click

Update Driver

3.3.2

After Windows

Server 2008 OS installation

To update the RAID card driver after installing Windows

Server 2008 OS:

1. Click

Server Manager

on the Windows taskbar. In the Server Manager

window, click the “

” sign before

Diagnostics

and click

Device Manager

Click the “

” sign before

Storage controllers

, and double-click

LSI

MegaRAID SAS Adapter

The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card.

Summary of Contents for PIKE 2208

Page 1: ...LSISAS RAID card PIKE 2208 User Guide ...

Page 2: ...ERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL ASUS ITS DIRECTORS OFFICERS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS LOSS OF BUSINESS LOSS OF USE OR DATA INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE EVEN IF ASUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR I...

Page 3: ... 2 4 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 2 30 2 2 5 Viewing System Event Information 2 37 2 2 6 Managing Configurations 2 38 2 3 MegaRAID Storage Manager 2 42 2 3 1 Hardware and Software Requirements 2 42 2 3 2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows OS 2 42 2 3 3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux 2 46 2 3 4 Linux Error Messages 2 47 2 3 5 Starting...

Page 4: ... 3 9 3 3 1 During Windows Server 2008 OS installation 3 9 3 3 2 After Windows Server 2008 OS installation 3 11 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 5 Driver Installation 3 13 3 5 SUSE Linux OS 11 Driver Installation 3 15 ASUS contact information 1 Contents ...

Page 5: ...n ASUS hardware and software products Refer to the ASUS contact information 2 Optional documentation Your product package may include optional documentation such as warranty flyers that may have been added by your dealer These documents are not part of the standard package Notices Australia statement notice From 1 January 2012 updated warranties apply to all ASUS products consistent with the Austr...

Page 6: ...that you must type the command exactly as shown then supply the required item or value enclosed in brackets Example At the DOS prompt type the command line format a DANGER WARNING Information to prevent injury to yourself when trying to complete a task CAUTION Information to prevent damage to the components when trying to complete a task NOTE Tips and additional information to help you complete a ...

Page 7: ... 1 10 5 50 6 60 Max physical Disk qty for RAID 32 Cache 1GB onboard SDRAM Backup Support Header reserved for LSI Cache Vault acquired from LSI existing distribution channel OS support Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 SP2 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 SP1 Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6 2 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 4 SuS...

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Page 9: ...1 Chapter 1 Product introduction This chapter offers the PIKE 2208 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports ...

Page 10: ...he motherboard Before you start installing the RAID card check the items in your package with the list below 1 2 Package contents Check your package for the following items Standard Gift Box Pack Standard Bulk Pack ASUS PIKE 2208 SAS RAID card 1 1 Support CD 1 1 User Guide 1 1 SATA cable 8 Packing Quantity 1 pc per carton 3 pcs per carton The number of the SATA cable varies with product SKU If any...

Page 11: ... signal with SGPIO interface The SGPIO interface is used for visibility into drive activity failure and rebuild status so that users could build high performance and reliable storage systems Refer to the motherboard manual for detailed information about using the SGPIO connectors on the motherboard 3 3 2 2 1 4 4 SAS RAID card status LED lights up and blinks to indicate that the card is working nor...

Page 12: ... card check if the system meets the following requirements Workstation or server motherboard with a PIKE RAID card slot SAS or SATA hard disk drives Supporting operating system Windows and Linux operating systems refer to website for details Other requirement Appropriate thermal solution Certified power supply module 1 1 1 1 ...

Page 13: ...slot Ensure the card is completely inserted into the card slot and the heatsink latch is completely hooked to the edge of the card slot 1 5 Card installation Follow below instructions to install the RAID card to your motherboard 3 Secure the PIKE RAID card with the screw that you removed earlier DO NOT overtighten the screw or the motherboard component can be damaged 4 Connect the hard disk drives...

Page 14: ...1 6 Chapter 1 Product introduction ...

Page 15: ...2 Chapter 2 RAID configuration This chapter provides instructions on setting up creating and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities ...

Page 16: ...le simultaneous drive failure A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the advantages of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance fault tolerance and higher storage capacity The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing relational database applications en...

Page 17: ...all an operating system to the selected hard disk drive 2 1 2 Installing hard disk drives The RAID card supports SAS for RAID set configuration For optimal performance install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array To install SAS hard disks for RAID configuration 1 Install the SAS hard disks into the drive bays following the instructions in the system user guide...

Page 18: ...a storage configuration to a different RAID level Detect configuration mismatches Import a foreign configuration Display controller virtual drive drive and change parameters Scan devices connected to the controller Initialize virtual drives Check configurations for data consistency Create a CacheCade configuration You may use disks of different sizes however the size of the smallest disk determine...

Page 19: ... Preboot CLI this option is for advanced debug only LSI MegaRAID SAS MFI BIOS Version 5 33 00 Build March 15 2012 Copyright C 2012 LSI Corporation HA 0 Bus 1 Dev 0 LSI MegaRAID SAS PCI Express ROMB Battery Status Not present PCI SLOT ID LUN VENDOR PRODUCT REVISION CAPACITY 0 LSI LSI MegaRAID SAS PCI Exp 3 190 15 1686 512MB 0 0 0 SEAGATE ST3300657SS 0000 286102MB 0 1 0 SEAGATE ST3300657SS 0000 2861...

Page 20: ...controller alarm Click this icon to display information about the WebBIOS CU version bus number and device number 2 2 2 WebBIOS CU main screen options This is the Physical View screen which displays the drives that are connected to the controller To toggle between the physical view and logical view of the storage devices connected to the controller click Physical View or Logical View in the menu o...

Page 21: ...he WebBIOS CU re scan the physical and virtual drives for any changes in the drive status or the physical configuration The WebBIOS CU displays the results of the scan in the physical and virtual drive descriptions Virtual Drives Select this to view the Virtual Drives screen where you can change and view virtual drive properties initialize drives and perform other tasks Drives Select this to view ...

Page 22: ...pears as shown in the right figure 2 Select a configuration option If you choose the first or second option all existing data in the configuration will be deleted Make a backup of any data that you want to keep before you choose an option Clear Configuration Clears the existing configuration New Configuration Clears the existing configuration and lets you create a new configuration Add Configurati...

Page 23: ...figuration and Redundancy when possible WebBIOS creates a RAID 6 configuration if three or more disk drives are available 2 Click Yes when you are prompted to save the configuration 3 Click Yes when you are prompted to initialize the new virtual drive s WebBIOS CU begins a background initialization of the virtual drives Using Manual Configuration RAID 0 RAID 0 provides drive striping across all dr...

Page 24: ...ead policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives 7 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options RAID Level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 0 Strip Size The strip size specifies the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID configuratio...

Page 25: ...red in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read again it comes from cache memory This is the default Cached In cached I O mode all reads are buffered in cache memory Drive Cache Specify the drive cache policy Unchanged Leave the current drive cache policy unchanged This is the default Enable Enable the drive cache Disable Disable the dr...

Page 26: ...ick Cancel to close the sceen Using Manual Configuration RAID 1 In RAID 1 the RAID controller duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity It is appropriate for small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance but small capacity When you select Manual Configuration ...

Page 27: ...a access that is allowed for this virtual drive RW Allow read write access This is the default Read Only Allow read only access Blocked Do not allow access Read Policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive No Read Ahead This disables the read ahead capability Always Read Ahead This enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and t...

Page 28: ... Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in terabytes gigabytes megabytes or kilobytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 1 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 8 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to return to the previous settin...

Page 29: ... Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add to Array to move the drives to a proposed two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right 3 Select a preferred power save mode The power save mode can be Max Max without cache Auto None and Controller defined If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 4 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 1 drive group An icon for the next...

Page 30: ... virtual drive Select RAID 10 Strip Size The strip size specifies the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID configuration You can set the strip size up to 1 MB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 256 KB Access Policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for th...

Page 31: ...ile you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in terabytes gigabytes megabytes or kilobytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 10 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You may specify a smaller siz...

Page 32: ...e In addition RAID 5 is good for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates When you select Manual Configuration and click Next the Drive Group Definition screen appears You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while you select at least three ready drives in the Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Arrary to move the drives to a p...

Page 33: ...hat the data will be needed soon This speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data This is the default Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive Write Through In Write Through mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction Always Write...

Page 34: ...o create other virtual drives on the same drive group 8 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to return to the previous settings 9 Click Yes to confirm the write policy mode you have chosen 10 Click Next after you finish defining virtual drives The configuration preview screen appears 11 Check the information in the configuration preview screen 12 If t...

Page 35: ...can be Max Max without cache Auto None and Controller defined If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 4 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 5 drive group An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel 5 Click on the icon for the second drive group to select it 6 Hold Ctrl while selecting at least three more ready drives in the Drives panel to create a second drive group 7 Click Ad...

Page 36: ...bility Always Read Ahead This enables read ahead capability which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory anticipating that the data will be needed soon This speeds up reads for sequential data but there is little improvement when accessing random data This is the default Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virt...

Page 37: ... the right You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 15 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to undo the changes 16 Click Yes to confirm the write policy mode you have chosen 17 Click Next after you finish defining virtual drives The configuration preview screen appears 18 Check the information i...

Page 38: ...e drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while you select at least three ready drives in the Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Arrary to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right 3 Select a preferred power save mode The power save mode can be Max Max without cache Auto None and Controller defined If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 4 After you...

Page 39: ... In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction This setting is recommended in Standard mode IO Policy The IO Policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache Direct In direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to ...

Page 40: ...ation click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration 14 Click Yes at the prompt to start initialization 15 After the virtual drive is successfully created the Manage SSD Caching screen appears Click Cancel to close the sceen Using Manual Configuration RAID 60 RAID 60 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 6 and includes both parity and drive striping across multiple drive groups RAID 6 s...

Page 41: ...n the right If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 8 Choose whether to use drive encryption After you finish selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and click Accept DG for each 9 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears This screen displays the drive group holes you can select to add to a span 10 Select one of the available drive groups from the Array With Free S...

Page 42: ...ovement when accessing random data This is the default Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive Write Through In Write Through mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction Always Write Back In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when th...

Page 43: ...cept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to undo the changes 16 Click Yes to confirm the write policy mode you have chosen 17 Click Next after you finish defining virtual drives The configuration preview screen appears 18 Check the information in the configuration preview screen 19 If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configur...

Page 44: ... screen is read only and cannot be modified directly Most of this information is self explanatory The screen lists the number of virtual drives that are already defined on this controller plus the number of drives connected to the controller Click Next to view the second Controller Properties screen as shown in the right figure Click Next to view the third Controller Properties screen as shown in ...

Page 45: ...lected controller The default is 30 percent CC Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to consistency checks of virtual drives connected to the selected contrroller The default is 30 percent Reconstruction Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to reconstruction of drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent...

Page 46: ...tain PD Fail History Use this option to maintain the history of all drive failures The default is Enabled Controller BIOS Use this option to enable or disable the BIOS for the selected controller The default is Enabled If the boot device is on the selected controller the BIOS must be enabled Otherwise the BIOS should be disabled or it might not be possible to use a boot device elsewhere Link Speed...

Page 47: ... operation select it and click Go Choose from the following options Select Delete to delete this virtual drive Select Locate to make the LEDs flash on the drives used by this virtual drive This works only if the drives are installed in a drive enclosure that supports SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure SAFTE Select Fast Init or Slow Init to initialize this virtual drive A fast initialization qu...

Page 48: ...rs confirm that you want to migrate the RAID level of the virtual drive A reconstruction operation begins on the virtual drive You must wait until the reconstruction is completed before you perform any other tasks in the WebBIOS CU Select Expand to increase the size of a virtual drive to occupy the remaining capacity in the drive group In addition you can add drives to the virtual drive in order t...

Page 49: ...ew only and are self explanatory Note that the properties include the state of the drive The operations listed at the bottom of the screen vary depending on the state of the drive After you select an operation click Go to start the operation If the drive state is Online the following operations appear Select Make Drive Offline if you want to force the drive offline If you force offline a good driv...

Page 50: ...e available to all of the virtual drives Select Enclosure Affinity so if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration then the hot spare will be used first on the backplane side that it resides in Select Make Unconf Bad to make the drive state to become Unconfigured Bad Select Prepare for Removal to prepare the drive for removal from the enclosure ...

Page 51: ... many event entries are currently stored To view event information follow these steps 1 Select an event locale from the Event Locale drop down menu For example select Enclosure to view events relating to the drive enclosure 2 Select an event class Informational Warning Critical Fatal or Dead 3 Enter a start sequence number between the first sequence and last sequence numbers The higher the number ...

Page 52: ...ive group it assumes that the data is accurate and automatically corrects the parity value Be sure to back up the data before running a consistency check if you think the data may be corrupted Deleting a Virtual Drive You can delete any virtual drive on the controller if you want to reuse that space for a new virtual drive The WebBIOS CU provides a list of configurable drive groups where there is ...

Page 53: ...ations including foreign configurations do not appear To use drives with existing configurations you must first clear the configuration on those drives Foreign configuration s found on adapter Press any key to continue or C to load the configuration utility or F to import foreign configuration s and continue If WebBIOS CU detects a foreign configuration the following screen appears when enter the ...

Page 54: ...rives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the foreign configuration in each case The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or physical drive removals If you want to import the foreign config...

Page 55: ...rive are removed but at different times and re inserted the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration If you select Import all drives that were pulled before the virtual drive became offline will be imported and then automatically rebuilt Automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives 4 Scenario 4 If the drives in a non redu...

Page 56: ...rmation on hardware and operating system requirements 2 3 2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows OS Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Microsoft Windows OS 1 Insert the ASUS PIKE 2208 Support CD in the optical disc drive The CD automatically displays the Utilities menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer I...

Page 57: ...Manager software to view or change storage configurations If you select Only for current user the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcuts and associated icons will be available only to the user with this user name 6 Click Next to continue 7 On the next screen accept the default Destination Folder or click Change to select a different destination folder Click Next to continue The Setup Type screen appea...

Page 58: ...ll on the next screen that appears 10 Select one of the custom setup options The options are fully explained in the screen text Select Client if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a PC that will be used to view and configure servers over a network To begin installation click on Install on the next screen that appears Select Server to install only those components required for ...

Page 59: ...able servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software the server screen appears as shown in the following figure The server screen will not list any servers You can use this screen to manage systems remotely If you select Custom a window listing the installation features appears as shown in the following figur...

Page 60: ...inux_installer tar gz A new disk directory is created 3 Go to the new disk directory 4 In the disk directory find and read the readme txt file 5 To start the installation enter the following command csh install sh a If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete...

Page 61: ...e rpm files manually before installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software with the procedure listed previously 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 in...

Page 62: ...rage Manager shortcut on the desktop If a warning appears stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of the program click Unblock to allow the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to start The Windows Firewall sometimes blocks the operation of programs that use Java To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Red Hat Linux system select Applications System Tools MegaRAID Storage Mana...

Page 63: ... for the Login mode you have chosen the main MegaRAID Storage Manager window appears If the circle in Health column of the corresponding server is orange instead of green it means that the server is running in a degraded state for example because a drive used in a virtual drive has failed If the circle is red the storage configuration in the server has failed You can click Configure Host if you wa...

Page 64: ...covers the properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives total capacity configured capacity unconfigured capacity background operations in progress MegaRAID Storage Manager features and their status enabled or disabled and actions you can perform such as creating a virtual drive and updating the firmware as shown in the following figure ...

Page 65: ...device has failed For example this icon indicates that a drive has failed A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a degraded state For example this icon indicates that a virtual drive is running in a degraded state because a drive has failed You can click the Physical tab to view the drives connected to the controller or Logical tab to view the virtual drives ...

Page 66: ... updating the display in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window Refresh is seldom required the display normally updates automatically The Manage menu options also include Check Consistency Initialize and Show Progress Go To Menu The Go To menu is available when a controller physical drive or virtual disk is selected in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window The Go To menu options vary depending on what ...

Page 67: ...gaRAID Storage Manager software When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content If this warning appears click on the active content warning bar and enable the active content If you are using the Linux operating system you must install Firefox or Mozilla for the MegaRAID Storage Manager on...

Page 68: ...2 54 Chapter 2 RAID configuration ...

Page 69: ...3 Chapter 3 Driver installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID drivers on different operating systems ...

Page 70: ...CD or from the Internet A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows Server 2003 or Linux operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS using the Makedisk application in the support CD To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment 1 Place the RAID card support CD in the optical drive 2 Restart the computer ...

Page 71: ...XP 32 bit Windows XP 64 bit Windows Server 2003 32 bit Windows Server 2003 64 bit Windows Vista 32 bit Windows Vista 64 bit Windows Server 2008 32 bit Windows Server 2008 64 bit Windows 7 32 bit Windows 7 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit RHEL 4 UP7 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP8 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP9 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP2 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP3 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP4 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP5 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP6 ...

Page 72: ...ional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter Currently Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices s none To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a de...

Page 73: ...ds the RAID card drivers from the RAID driver disk When next screen appears press Enter to continue installation 7 Setup then proceeds with the OS installation Follow screen instructions to continue Windows Setup ENTER Select F3 Exit You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer Select the SCSI Adapter you want from...

Page 74: ... Server 2003 OS 1 Click Start right click My Computer and select Manage from the menu 2 In the Computer Management window click the Device Manager item 3 Double click RAID Controller under the Other Devices item 4 Click the Driver tab on the top then click Update Driver The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card ...

Page 75: ...to cancel searching driver from Windows Update and then click Next to continue 6 Toggle Install from a list or specific location Advanced then click Next to continue 7 Select the Include this location in the search check box and then click Browse ...

Page 76: ...S RAID card Support CD into the optical drive 8 Locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support CD and then click OK to continue 9 The system automatically updates the driver After completing driver update click Finish to close the wizard ...

Page 77: ...th the PIKE SAS RAID card Support CD into the optical drive Click Browse to continue 3 3 Windows Server 2008 OS Driver Installation 3 3 1 During Windows Server 2008 OS installation To install the RAID card driver when installing Windows Server 2008 OS 1 Boot the computer using the Windows Server 2008 OS installation disc Follow the screen instructions to start installing Windows Server 2008 2 When...

Page 78: ...nue 6 Select LSI MegaRAID SAS PCI Express ROMB and click Next 8 Setup then proceeds with the OS installation Follow screen instructions to continue 7 When the system finishes loading the RAID driver replace the SAS RAID card Support CD with the Windows Server installation disc Select the drive to install Windows and click Next ...

Page 79: ...RAID card driver after installing Windows Server 2008 OS 1 Click Server Manager on the Windows taskbar In the Server Manager window click the sign before Diagnostics and click Device Manager Click the sign before Storage controllers and double click LSI MegaRAID SAS Adapter The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card ...

Page 80: ...r After completing driver update click Close to exit the wizard 6 Insert the SAS RAID card Support CD into the optical drive Click Browse 7 In the Browse for Folder window locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support CD and then click OK to continue 8 In the Update Driver Software window click Next to continue ...

Page 81: ...xt mode type linux text ENTER Use the function keys listed below for more information F1 Main F2 Options F3 General F4 Kernel F5 Rescue boot linux dd 3 Select Yes using the Tab key when asked if you have the driver disk then press Enter Main Menu Do you have a driver disk Yes No 4 Insert the Red Hat Enterprise RAID driver disk to the USB floppy disk drive select OK then press Enter The drivers for...

Page 82: ...ss Enter 7 Follow the screen instructions to continue the OS installation More Driver Disks Do you wish to load any more driver disks Yes No 6 Select Skip and press Enter to continue CD Found To begin testing the CD media before installation press OK Choose Skip to skip the media test and start the installation OK Skip ...

Page 83: ... F6 then select Yes from the menu Press Enter 4 Insert the RAID driver disk to the USB floppy disk drive Ensure that Installation from the Boot Options menu is selected then press Enter 5 When below screen appears select the USB floppy disk drive sdx as the driver update medium Select OK then press Enter The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system Please choose the Driver Updat...

Page 84: ...3 16 Chapter 3 Driver installation ...

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