Intel® RAID High Availability Storage User Guide
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Table of Contents
1.
Introduction .................................................................................................................. 6
Concepts of High-Availability DAS ................................................................................ 6
Intel® RAID High Availability Storage Terminology ..................................................... 7
Intel
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RAID High Availability Storage Solution Features ............................................... 7
2.
Hardware and Software Setup ...................................................................................... 9
Installing Intel® RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKHA2 ........................................ 9
Installing Intel
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RAID High Availability Storage Hardware ........................................... 10
Setting Up a Cluster-in-a-Box Configuration ................................................. 11
Setting Up a Two-Server Configuration with External JBOD Configuration... 13
Cabling Configurations ............................................................................................... 16
Installing Intel
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RAID High Availability Storage Software ............................................ 20
Installing the Operating System and the Failover Clustering Feature ........... 20
Installing the Intel RAID Driver ..................................................................... 21
Installing the Management Tools .................................................................. 21
3.
Creating the Intel
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RAID High Availability Storage Configuration ................................ 22
Validating the Failover Configuration .......................................................................... 22
Creating the Cluster .................................................................................................... 22
Creating Virtual Drives on the Controller Nodes .......................................................... 24
Creating Shared VDs with the Intel® RAID BIOS Console ........................... 24
Creating Shared VDs with CmdTool264.exe on Windows Server 2012 ........ 28
Creating Shared VDs with RWC2 ................................................................. 34
Intel® RAID High Availability Storage SSD Cache Support....................................... 37
4.
System Administration ................................................................................................ 42
High Availability Properties ......................................................................................... 42
Understanding Failover Operations ............................................................................ 43
Understanding and Using Planned Failover ................................................. 45
Understanding Unplanned Failover .............................................................. 47
Updating the Intel
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RAID High Availability Storage Controller Firmware ..................... 47
Updating the Intel RAID Driver .................................................................................... 48
Updating the Driver in Windows Server 2008 R2 .......................................... 48
Updating the Driver in Windows Server 2012 ............................................... 50
Performing Preventative Measures on Disk Drives and VDs....................................... 52
Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................. 53
Reference Checklist of Required Intel® RAID High Availability Storage Components 53
Verifying Intel® RAID High Availability Storage Support in Tools and the OS Driver . 53
Confirming SAS Connections ..................................................................................... 55
Using Intel® RAID BIOS Console to View Connections for Controllers,
Expanders, and Drives ................................................................ 55
Using Intel® RAID BIOS Console to Verify Dual-Ported SAS Addresses to
Disk Drives ................................................................................. 55
Using CmdTool2 to Verify Dual-Ported SAS Addresses to Disk Drives ........ 57
Using RWC2 to Verify Dual-Ported SAS Addresses to Disk Drives .............. 58
Understanding SSD Cache Behavior During a Failover .............................................. 59
Error Situations and Solutions .................................................................................... 59
