IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-4H Ultra160, User Reference

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Contents
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
How this book is organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Notices used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1. Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Option package contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Understanding RAID technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stripe-unit size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Supported RAID levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Selecting a RAID level and performance tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Drive state descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2. Installing and configuring ServeRAID controllers . . . . . . . 13
Obtaining ServeRAID updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Downloadable files from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Step 1: Installing and cabling a ServeRAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Controller features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connector locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using a ServeRAID controller in a server with Hot-plug PCI features . . . . 17
Installing the ServeRAID controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting external devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Step 2: Updating BIOS and firmware code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Step 3: Configuring ServeRAID controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using the ServeRAID Manager program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Step 4: Installing device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing device drivers while installing the operating system . . . . . . . 34
Installing or updating device drivers after installing the operating system . . . 42
Step 5: Installing the ServeRAID Manager program and other utilities . . . . . 48
Installing the ServeRAID Manager program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing the IPSSEND and IPSMON command-line programs . . . . . . 53
Step 6: Starting the ServeRAID Manager program . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Starting the ServeRAID Manager program in Windows 2000 and Windows
NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Starting the ServeRAID Manager program in NetWare . . . . . . . . . 57
Starting the ServeRAID Manager program in OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Starting the ServeRAID Manager program in OpenServer, UnixWare, and
Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 3. Configuring two ServeRAID controllers in a failover
environment (Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 only) . . . . . . . 61
Hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installation guidelines and restrictions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Preparing the controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Connecting the expansion enclosures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring ServeRAID arrays and logical drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Completing the failover environment installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 4. Introduction to IBM ServeRAID Cluster Solution . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 5. Preparing to install or change a cluster solution . . . . . . . 73
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