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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide

Chapter 8: Configuration

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Deleting a Virtual Drive

Automatic rebuilds always occur when the drive slot status changes, for example, when 
you insert a drive or remove a drive, so that a hot spare can be used. However, a new 
drive in JBOD drive state (without a valid DDF record), does not perform an automatic 
rebuild. 

To start an automatic rebuild on the new JBOD drive, you have to change the drive 
state from JBOD to Unconfigured Good. (Rebuilds start only on Unconfigured Good 
drives.) After you set the drive state to Unconfigured Good, the drive state information 
always remains on the drive, and you can use the drive for configuration.

See 

Section 4.12.3.3, 

Troubleshooting Information

 for more information about DDF and 

metadata. See 

Section 10.5, 

Making a Drive Offline or Missing

 for the procedure to 

change a drive to the Unconfigured Good drive state.

8.8

Deleting a Virtual Drive

CAUTION:

Be sure to back up the data that is on the virtual drive before you delete it. 

Be sure that the operating system is not installed on this virtual drive.

You can delete virtual drives to rearrange the storage space. To delete a virtual drive, 
follow these steps.

1. Back up all user data that is on the virtual drive you want to delete.

2. On the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen, select the 

Logical

 tab, and 

click the icon of the virtual drive you want to delete.

3. Select 

Go To>Virtual Drive>Delete Virtual Drive

.

4. When the warning messages appear, click 

Yes

 to confirm that you want to delete 

the virtual drive.

NOTE:

You are asked twice if you want to delete a virtual disk to avoid deleting the 

virtual disk by mistake.

Summary of Contents for ThinkServer RD330

Page 1: ...ThinkServer MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide ...

Page 2: ...d the Appendix D Notices First Edition June 2011 Copyright Lenovo 2011 LIMITED AND RESTRICTED RIGHTS NOTICE If data or software is delivered pursuant a General Services Administration GSA contract use reproduction or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in Contract No GS 35F 05925 ...

Page 3: ...efits 21 2 3 RAID Functions 21 2 4 Components and Features 21 2 4 1 Drive Group 22 2 4 2 Virtual Drive 22 2 4 3 Fault Tolerance 22 2 4 4 Consistency Check 23 2 4 5 Copyback 23 2 4 6 Background Initialization 24 2 4 7 Patrol Read 25 2 4 8 Disk Striping 25 2 4 9 Disk Mirroring 25 2 4 10 Parity 26 2 4 11 Disk Spanning 27 2 4 12 Hot Spares 28 2 4 13 Disk Rebuilds 29 2 4 14 Rebuild Rate 30 2 4 15 Hot S...

Page 4: ... 4 4 4 Activating an Unlimited Key Over a Trial Key 61 4 4 5 Activating a Trial Software 61 4 4 6 Activating an Unlimited Key 62 4 4 7 Securing MegaRAID Advanced Software 62 4 4 8 Confirm Rehosting Process 62 4 4 9 Rehosting Process Complete 63 4 5 Creating a Storage Configuration 64 4 5 1 Selecting the Configuration with the Configuration Wizard 64 4 5 2 Using Automatic Configuration 67 4 5 3 Usi...

Page 5: ... 12 9 New Drives Attached to a MegaRAID Controller 163 4 13 WebBIOS Dimmer Switch 164 4 13 1 Power Save mode 170 4 13 2 Power Save Settings Advanced 171 4 13 3 Power Save While Creating Virtual Drives 172 Chapter 5 MegaRAID Command Tool 173 5 1 Product Overview 173 5 2 Novell NetWare SCO Solaris FreeBSD and DOS Operating System Support 174 5 3 Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions 175 5 3 1 A...

Page 6: ...5 12 1 Event Log Management 192 5 12 2 Set BBU Terminal Logging 193 5 13 Configuration Related Options 193 5 13 1 Create a RAID Drive Group from All Unconfigured Good Drives 193 5 13 2 Add RAID 0 1 5 or 6 Configuration 195 5 13 3 Add RAID 10 50 or 60 Configuration 196 5 13 4 Clear the Existing Configuration 196 5 13 5 Save the Configuration on the Controller 196 5 13 6 Restore the Configuration Da...

Page 7: ...7 Flashing the Firmware 212 5 17 1 Flash the Firmware with the ROM File 212 5 17 2 Flash the Firmware in Mode 0 with the ROM File 212 5 18 SAS Topology 213 5 19 Diagnostic Related Options 213 5 19 1 Start Controller Diagnostics 213 5 19 2 Start Battery Test 213 5 20 Recovery Snapshot Related Options 213 5 20 1 Enable the Snapshot Feature 214 5 20 2 Disable the Snapshot Feature 214 5 20 3 Take Snap...

Page 8: ... VMWare 236 6 5 3 MegaRAID Storage Manager Support on the VMWare ESXi Operating System 236 6 5 4 Limitations 238 6 6 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider 240 6 6 1 Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on Linux 240 6 6 2 Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on Windows 241 6 7 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent 242 6 7 1 Prerequisite for LSI SNMP Agent RPM Installation 242 6 7 2 Install...

Page 9: ... Chapter 9 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices 295 9 1 Monitoring System Events 295 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications 296 9 2 1 Setting Alert Delivery Methods 298 9 2 2 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events 298 9 2 3 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events 299 9 2 4 Multiple Events Displayed in a Single Pop up Window 300 9 2 5 Entering or Editing the Sender E m...

Page 10: ...cenarios 332 11 2 12 Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software 333 11 2 13 Snapshot Repository 334 11 2 14 Selecting the Virtual Drive 336 11 2 15 Scheduling Snapshots 337 11 2 16 Editing Snapshots 338 11 2 17 Snapshot Base Details 339 11 2 18 Manage Snapshots 340 11 2 19 Editing Schedule 342 11 2 20 Advanced Settings 342 11 2 21 Create View 343 11 2 22 Viewing Snapshot Details 344 11 2 23 No View D...

Page 11: ...urity Settings 367 11 5 11 Disabling Drive Security 368 11 5 12 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration 369 Appendix A Events and Messages 373 A 1 Error Levels 373 A 2 Event Messages 373 Appendix B MegaCLI Error Messages 387 B 1 Error Messages and Descriptions 387 Appendix C Glossary 391 Appendix D Notices 398 D 1 Trademarks 399 ...

Page 12: ...Page 12 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents ...

Page 13: ...rise systems MegaRAID 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers offer a cost effective way to implement RAID in a server SAS technology brings a wealth of options and flexibility with the use of SAS devices Serial ATA SATA II devices and CacheCade SSD Caching software devices within the same storage infrastructure These devices bring individual characteristics that make each of these more suitable choice dependi...

Page 14: ...ce Interface SAS is a serial point to point enterprise level device interface that leverages the proven SCSI protocol set SAS is a convergence of the advantages of SATA II SCSI and Fibre Channel and is the future mainstay of the enterprise and high end workstation storage markets SAS offers a higher bandwidth per pin than parallel SCSI and it improves the signal and data integrity The SAS interfac...

Page 15: ...nly those SATA CacheCade SSD Caching software drives which support ATA 8 ACS compliance You can choose whether to allow a virtual drive to consist of both CacheCade SSD Caching software devices and HDDs For a virtual drive that consists of CacheCade SSD Caching software only you can choose whether to allow SAS CacheCade SSD Caching software drives and SATA CacheCade SSD Caching software drives in ...

Page 16: ...erface between operating systems and the hardware platform at boot time Support an architecture independent mechanism for initializing add in cards UEFI 2 0 provides MegaRAID customers with expanded platform support The MegaRAID UEFI 2 0 driver a boot service device driver handles block IO requests and SCSI pass through commands SPT and offers the ability to launch pre boot MegaRAID management app...

Page 17: ... 1 Example of a SAS Direct Connect Application Figure 2 shows an example of a SAS RAID controller configured with a SASx12 expander that is connected to SAS disks SATA II disks or both Figure 2 Example of a SAS RAID Controller Configured with a SASx12 Expander Flash ROM SAS PCI Express RAID Controller SAS SATA II Device 32 Bit Memory Address Data Bus PSBRAM I2 C SAS SATA II Device SAS SATA II Devi...

Page 18: ...s you can use when you create virtual drives and allow HDD and CacheCade SSD Caching software mixing The valid drive mix configurations are based on manufacturer settings NOTE Only one of the valid configurations listed in Table 1 is allowed based on your controller card manufacturing settings NOTE The valid drive mix also applies to hot spares For hot spare information see Section 2 4 12 Hot Spar...

Page 19: ...hnical Support 1 8 Technical Support For assistance with installing configuring or running your MegaRAID 6Gb s SAS RAID controller contact a Technical Support representative Click the following link to access the Lenovo Support Web site http www lenovo com support ...

Page 20: ...Page 20 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1 Overview Technical Support ...

Page 21: ...ross all of the drives in the drive group Your drives must be organized into virtual drives in a drive group and they must be able to support the RAID level that you select Below are some common RAID functions Creating hot spare drives Configuring drive groups and virtual drives Initializing one or more virtual drives Accessing controllers virtual drives and drives individually Rebuilding failed d...

Page 22: ...drive group A RAID 50 virtual drive can tolerate two drive failures as long as each failure is in a separate drive group RAID 60 drive groups can tolerate up to two drive failures in each drive group NOTE RAID level 0 is not fault tolerant If a drive in a RAID 0 drive group fails the whole virtual drive all drives associated with the virtual drive fails Fault tolerance is often associated with sys...

Page 23: ...er uses different paths to balance the load on the entire system In the MegaRAID Storage Manager utility when multiple paths are available to a drive the drive information will show only one enclosure The utility shows that a redundant path is available to a drive All drives with a redundant path display this information The firmware supports online replacement of enclosure modules 2 4 4 Consisten...

Page 24: ...ror threshold and the other failed If you add a hot spare assume a global hot spare during a copyback operation the copyback is aborted and the rebuild operation starts on the hot spare 2 4 6 Background Initialization Background initialization is a check for media errors on the drives when you create a virtual drive It is an automatic operation that starts five minutes after you create the virtual...

Page 25: ...used in RAID level 0 segment 1 is written to disk 1 segment 2 is written to disk 2 and so on Disk striping enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously but disk striping does not provide data redundancy Figure 3 Example of Disk Striping RAID 0 2 4 8 1 Stripe Width Stripe width is the number of drives involved in a drive group where striping is implemented For example a ...

Page 26: ...ive group is shown in Figure 5 RAID 5 uses parity to provide redundancy for one drive failure without duplicating the contents of entire drives RAID 6 uses distributed parity and disk striping also but adds a second set of parity data so that it can survive up to two drive failures Figure 5 Example of Distributed Parity RAID 5 Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 1 Duplicated Segment 2 Duplicated...

Page 27: ...d RAID 60 Table 3 describes how to configure RAID 00 RAID 10 RAID 50 and RAID 60 by spanning The virtual drives must have the same stripe size and the maximum number of spans is eight The full drive capacity is used when you span virtual drives you cannot specify a smaller drive capacity See Chapter 8 Configuration for detailed procedures for configuring drive groups and virtual drives and spannin...

Page 28: ... hot spares of the drives that are not in a RAID virtual drive You can use the RAID management software to designate the hot spare to have enclosure affinity meaning that if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration the hot spare will be used first on the backplane side that it resides in If the hot spare is designated as having enclosure affinity it will attempt to rebui...

Page 29: ...ps The RAID controller uses hot spares to rebuild failed drives automatically and transparently at user defined rebuild rates If a hot spare is available the rebuild can start automatically when a drive fails If a hot spare is not available the failed drive must be replaced with a new drive so that the data on the failed drive can be rebuilt The failed drive is removed from the virtual drive and m...

Page 30: ...contents of the drive automatically 2 4 16 Drive States A drive state is a property indicating the status of the drive The drive states are described in Table 4 Table 4 Drive States State Description Online A drive that can be accessed by the RAID controller and is part of the virtual drive Unconfigured Good A drive that is functioning normally but is not configured as a part of a virtual drive or...

Page 31: ...ve States State Description Optimal The virtual drive operating condition is good All configured drives are online Degraded The virtual drive operating condition is not optimal One of the configured drives has failed or is offline Partial Degraded The operating condition in a RAID 6 virtual drive is not optimal One of the configured drives has failed or is offline RAID 6 can tolerate up to two dri...

Page 32: ...imum of eight spans You must use an even number of drives in each RAID virtual drive in the span The RAID 1 virtual drives must have the same stripe size RAID 10 provides high data throughput and complete data redundancy but uses a larger number of spans RAID 50 a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 5 uses distributed parity and disk striping A RAID 50 drive group is a spanned drive group in which data...

Page 33: ... do not require fault tolerance Table 7 provides an overview of RAID 0 Figure 7 provides a graphic example of a RAID 0 drive group Figure 7 RAID 0 Drive Group Example with Two Drives 2 5 4 RAID 1 In RAID 1 the RAID controller duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive in the drive group RAID 1 supports an even number of drives from 2 through 32 in a single span RAID 1 provides complete d...

Page 34: ...Segment 1 Segment 1 Duplicate Segment 2 Segment 3 Duplicate Segment 4 Duplicate Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6 Segment 7 Segment 8 Segment 5 Duplicate Segment 6 Duplicate Segment 7 Duplicate Segment 8 Duplicate Segment 2 Duplicate RAID1 RAID1 RAID1 RAID1 Table 9 RAID 5 Overview Uses Provides high data throughput especially for large files Use RAID 5 for transaction processing applications...

Page 35: ...11 15 Parity 1 5 Segment 6 Note Parity is distributed across all drives in the drive group Segment 12 Segment 15 Segment 11 Segment 14 Segment 13 Segment 19 Segment 25 Segment 20 Segment 23 Segment 18 Segment 21 Segment 16 Segment 22 Segment 17 Parity 21 25 Parity 26 30 Parity 16 20 Segment 24 Segment 30 Segment 27 Segment 29 Segment 26 Segment 28 Table 10 RAID 6 Overview Uses Use for office autom...

Page 36: ...o read or write the file faster RAID 00 involves no parity calculations to complicate the write operation This makes RAID 00 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance Table 11 provides an overview of RAID 00 Figure 11 provides a graphic example of a RAID 00 drive group Segment 1 Segment 6 Segment 2 Segment 7 Segment 3 Segment 8 Segment 4 Parity P5 P8 Par...

Page 37: ...RAID 1 virtual drives up to the maximum number of supported devices for the controller RAID 10 supports a maximum of eight spans with a maximum of 32 drives per span You must use an even number of drives in each RAID 10 virtual drive in the span NOTE Other factors such as the type of controller can restrict the number of drives supported by RAID 10 virtual drives Table 12 provides an overview of R...

Page 38: ... creation of the RAID set RAID level 50 can support up to eight spans and tolerate up to eight drive failures though less than total drive capacity is available Though multiple drive failures can be tolerated only one drive failure can be tolerated in each RAID 5 level drive group Table 13 provides an overview of RAID 50 Segment 1 Segment 1 Duplicate Segment 2 Segment 3 Duplicate Segment 4 Duplica...

Page 39: ...groups with data striped across both drive groups RAID 60 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 6 disk set RAID 6 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then writes the blocks of data and parity to each drive in the drive group The size of each block is determined by the stripe size paramete...

Page 40: ...but low write request rates Strong Points Provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments Each RAID 6 set can survive the loss of two drives or the loss of a drive while another drive is being rebuilt Provides the highest level of protection against drive failures of all of the RAID levels Read performance is similar to that of RAID 50 though random reads in RAID...

Page 41: ...ves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance 1 Provides complete data redundancy If one drive fails the contents of the other drive in the drive group can be used to run the system and reconstruct the failed drive The primary advantage of disk mirroring is that it provide...

Page 42: ...e because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously 1 With RAID 1 mirroring each drive in the system must be duplicated which requires more time and resources than striping Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds 5 RAID 5 provides high data throughput especially for large files Use this RAID level for any application that requires high read request rates but low write request rates such as...

Page 43: ...of spindles The system performance improves as the number of spans increases The maximum number of spans is eight As the storage space in the spans is filled the system stripes data over fewer and fewer spans and RAID performance degrades to that of a RAID 1 or RAID 6 drive group RAID 60 is not well suited to tasks requiring a lot of writes A RAID 60 virtual drive has to generate two sets of parit...

Page 44: ...ate If a drive used in a RAID virtual drive fails a hot spare automatically takes its place and the data on the failed drive is rebuilt on the hot spare Hot spares can be used for RAID levels 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 NOTE If a rebuild to a hot spare fails for any reason the hot spare drive will be marked as failed If the source drive fails both the source drive and the hot spare drive will be marked as ...

Page 45: ...ead the data often but write data infrequently Both the read and write operations tend to be long Data stored on a general purpose file server involves relatively short read and write operations with relatively small files 2 9 Number of Drives Your configuration planning for the SAS RAID controller depends in part on the number of drives that you want to use in a RAID drive group The number of dri...

Page 46: ... space and data redundancy in order of importance and then review the suggested RAID levels Table 18 Factors to Consider for Drive Group Configuration Requirement Rank Suggested RAID Level s Storage space RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 00 Data redundancy RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 RAID 60 Drive performance and throughput RAID 0 RAID 00 RAID 10 Hot spares extra drives required RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 R...

Page 47: ...nd MegaRAID Storage Manager Chapter 11 offer procedures that you can use to manage the security settings for the drives 3 2 Purpose and Benefits Security is a growing market concern and requirement MegaRAID customers are looking for a comprehensive storage encryption solution to protect data You can use the SafeStore encryption service to help protect your data In addition SafeStore local key mana...

Page 48: ...ou must back up the security key Password An optional authenticated mode is supported in which you must provide a password on each boot to make sure the system boots only if the user is authenticated Firmware uses the user password to encrypt the security key in the security key blob stored on the controller Re provisioning Re provisioning disables the security system of a device For a controller ...

Page 49: ...ion Services for the procedures used to change security options in MegaRAID Storage Manager 3 4 2 1 Change the Security Key Identifier You have the option to edit the security key identifier If you plan to change the security key it is highly recommended that you change the security key identifier Otherwise you will not be able to differentiate between the security keys You can select whether you ...

Page 50: ...u must first enable security to allow importation of locked foreign drives If the drives are locked and the controller security is disabled you cannot import the foreign drives Only unlocked drives can be imported when security is disabled After you enable the security you can import the locked drives To import the locked drives you must provide the security key used to secure them Verify whether ...

Page 51: ...ld cause an embarrassing disclosure of a security hole You can use the instant secure erase feature to effectively erase the data so the drive can be moved to another server or area without concern that old data could be found If there is a need to replace drives If the amount of data has outgrown the storage system and there is no room to expand capacity by adding drives you might choose to purch...

Page 52: ...Page 52 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3 SafeStore Disk Encryption Instant Secure Erase ...

Page 53: ...cy Create a CacheCade configuration The WebBIOS CU provides a configuration wizard to guide you through the configuration of virtual drives and drive groups 4 2 Starting the WebBIOS CU Follow these steps to start the WebBIOS CU and access the main screen 1 When the host computer is booting hold down the Ctrl key and press the H key when the following text appears on the screen Press Ctrl H for Web...

Page 54: ...In the list of virtual drives the drive nodes are sorted based on the order in which you added the drives to the drive group rather than the physical slot order that displays in the physical trees NOTE The minimum screen resolution for WebBIOS is 640x480 To toggle between the physical view and logical view of the storage devices connected to the controller click Physical View or Logical View in th...

Page 55: ...o view the properties of the currently selected SAS controller For more information see Section 4 8 1 Viewing Controller Properties Drive Security Alt r Select this option to encrypt data on the drives and use disk based key management for the data security solution This solution protects your data in case of theft or loss of physical drives For more information see Section 4 7 Selecting SafeStore...

Page 56: ...iew Select this option to toggle between the Physical View screen and the Logical View screen Events Alt e Select this option to view system events in the Event Information screen For more information see Section 4 11 Viewing System Event Information Exit Alt x Select this option to exit the WebBIOS CU and continue with system boot 4 4 Managing Software Licensing The MegaRAID advanced software off...

Page 57: ...oftware Options field consists of Advanced Software Options License and Mode columns The Advanced Software column displays the list of advanced software features available in the controller The License column displays the license details for the list of advanced softwares present in the Advanced Software column The license details validates if the software is under trial period or if it can be use...

Page 58: ...ting is required the Configure Key Vault button will not be displayed b Scenario 2 When the rehosting process needs to be completed the Configure Key Vault button appears 4 Click Deactivate All Trial Software The Deactivate All Trial Advanced Software Options dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 17 Deactivate All Trial Advanced Software Options If you want to deactivate the s...

Page 59: ...ld blank or enter space characters the following message appears Figure 19 Activation key Blank or Space c Scenario 3 If you enter an incorrect activation key and if there is a mismatch between the activation key and the controller the following message appears Figure 20 Activation Key Mismatch 4 4 2 Reusing the Activation Key If you are using an existing activated key the features get transferred...

Page 60: ...n in the following figure Figure 22 Advanced Software Options Summary Wizard The Summary field displays the list of the advanced Software options along with their former status and new status in the controller The Advanced Software Options column displays the currently available software in the controller The Former Status column displays the status of the available advanced software prior to ente...

Page 61: ... key over a trial key the message Review the summary and go back if you need to make corrections appears as shown in the following figure Figure 23 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key 4 4 5 Activating a Trial Software When you activate a trial software the message This trial software expires in 30 days appears as shown in the following figure Figure 24 Activating a Trial Software ...

Page 62: ... Configure Key Vault button in the Advanced Software Options wizard in Figure 16 the Secure MegaRAID Advanced Software Options dialog box appears as shown in the following figure Figure 26 Securing MegaRAID Advanced Software 4 4 8 Confirm Rehosting Process Confirming rehosting process involves the process of transferring or rehosting the advanced software features from one controller to another Wh...

Page 63: ...wn in the following figure Figure 27 Confirm Rehosting Process 2 Select the check box next to the message I acknowledge that I have completed the re hosting process in the Advanced Software License Management Portal 3 Click Next The Manage Advanced Software Options Summary as shown in Figure 23 appears 4 4 9 Rehosting Process Complete In a scenario where only keyvault feature needs to be transferr...

Page 64: ...ng Process Complete screen if rehosting is not complete the features will not be copied into the keyvault and the features remain in the keyvault itself but the user can still use the advanced features 4 5 Creating a Storage Configuration This section explains how to use the WebBIOS CU Configuration Wizard to configure RAID drive groups and virtual drives to create storage configurations 4 5 1 Sel...

Page 65: ...p 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 Configuration Retains the existing storage configuration and adds new drives to it this does not cause any data loss 3 Click Next 4 The Convert JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Drives screen ...

Page 66: ...ity Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 30 JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good Screen 5 Click Next A dialog box warns that you will lose data if you select Clear Configuration or New Configuration The WebBIOS Configuration Method screen appears as shown in the following figure ...

Page 67: ...ant RAID drive group or a non redundant RAID 0 drive group Select one of the following options in the Redundancy field Redundancy when possible No redundancy If you select Automatic Configuration you can choose whether to use a drive security method Select one of the following options in the Drive Security Method field No Encryption Drive Encryption 7 Click Next to continue If you select the Autom...

Page 68: ...ound initialization will not start The following number of drives is required New RAID 5 virtual drives must have at least five drives for a background initialization to start New RAID 6 virtual drives must have at least seven drives for a background initialization to start 4 5 3 Using Manual Configuration This section contains the procedures for creating RAID drive groups for RAID levels 0 1 5 6 ...

Page 69: ... Definition Screen 5 After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 6 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 33 This screen lists the possible RAID levels for the drive group Use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives ...

Page 70: ... the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access Policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive RW Allow read ...

Page 71: ...plies 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 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 E...

Page 72: ...bling 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 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 two ready drives in the Drives panel on the left You must select...

Page 73: ... Figure 35 WebBIOS Drive Group Definition Screen 5 After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 6 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 36 You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives ...

Page 74: ... the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access Policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive RW Allow read ...

Page 75: ...cific 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 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 Policy Specify the drive cache policy Enable Enable the drive...

Page 76: ...ot of small input output I O transactions simultaneously RAID 5 provides data redundancy high read rates and good performance in most environments It also provides redundancy with lowest loss of capacity RAID 5 provides high data throughput RAID 5 is useful for transaction processing applications because each drive can read and write independently If a drive fails the RAID controller uses the pari...

Page 77: ...ight as shown in Figure 38 3 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 4 Choose whether to use drive encryption Figure 38 WebBIOS Drive Group Definition Screen 5 After you finish selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 6 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 39 You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attribu...

Page 78: ...across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs rando...

Page 79: ...g BBU CAUTION We allow Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery We recommend that you use either a battery to protect the controller cache or an UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache IO Policy The IO Policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read...

Page 80: ... virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configuration Otherwise click Cancel to end the operation and return to the WebBIOS main menu or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration 13 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 5 3 4 Using Manual Configuration RAID 6 RAID...

Page 81: ...AID Entry level controllers such as the SAS 9240 4i 8i Rebuilds start only on unconfigured good drives so you have to change the new drive state from JBOD to unconfigured good to start a rebuild 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 selecting at least three ready dr...

Page 82: ...ngle drive in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and...

Page 83: ... you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically switches to Writethrough mode if it detects a bad or missing BBU CAUTION We allow Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery We recommend that you use either a battery to protect the controller cache or a UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing th...

Page 84: ...ves on the same drive group 2 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition 3 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 4 Click Next after you finish defining the virtual drives The Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in Figure 43 Figure 43 RAID 6 Configuration Preview 5 Check the information in the configuration preview 6 If the virtual drive configuration is ac...

Page 85: ...roup Definition screen to select drives to create drive groups 1 Hold Ctrl while you select ready drives in the Drives panel on the left 2 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right 3 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 4 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 0 drive group An icon for the next drive group appears in the...

Page 86: ...peat step 4 through step 6 until you have selected all the drives you want for the drive groups 11 After you finish selecting drives for the drive groups select each drive group and then click Accept DG for each selection 12 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 45 This screen shows the drive group holes that you can select to add to a span ...

Page 87: ...ears in the right frame under the heading Span 14 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group and then click Add to SPAN 15 Repeat the previous two steps until you have selected all of the drive groups that you want 16 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 46 You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new...

Page 88: ...iple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requ...

Page 89: ...he or a UPS If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache IO Policy The IO Policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive The policy does not affect the read ahead cache Direct In Direct I O mode reads are not buffered in cache memory Data is transferred to the cache and the host concurrently If the same data block is read a...

Page 90: ...mirrored drives It breaks up data into smaller blocks then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 drive group Each RAID 1 drive group then duplicates its data to its other drive The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter which is 64 KB RAID 10 can sustain one drive failure in each drive group while maintaining data integrity RAID 10 provides both high data transfer rates ...

Page 91: ... Drives panel to create a second RAID 1 drive group with two drives 7 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a second two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel as shown in Figure 48 8 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 9 Choose whether to use drive encryption NOTE RAID 10 supports a maximum of eight spans with a maximum of 32 drives per span Other factors such as t...

Page 92: ...N The drive group you select displays in the right frame under the heading Span 14 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group with two drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 15 If there are additional drive groups with two drives each you can add them to the virtual drive 16 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure...

Page 93: ...ID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 10 Strip Size The strip size is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single drive in the drive group The stripe consists of the data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In...

Page 94: ...We allow Writeback mode to be used with or without a battery We recommend that you use either a battery to protect the controller cache or a UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache IO Policy The IO Policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive It does not affect the read ahead cache Di...

Page 95: ...click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 5 3 7 Using Manual Configuration RAID 50 RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 5 RAID 50 uses both distributed parity and drive striping across multiple drive groups It provides high data throughput data redundancy and very good performance It is best implemented on two RAID 5 drive groups with data s...

Page 96: ...it 6 Hold Ctrl while selecting at least three more ready drives in the Drives panel to create a second drive group 7 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right as shown in Figure 52 8 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 9 Choose whether to use drive encryption Figure 52 WebBIOS Drive Group Definition Screen 10 Afte...

Page 97: ...splays in the right frame under the heading Span 13 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group of three or more drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 14 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 54 You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drive s 1...

Page 98: ...drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access Policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive RW All...

Page 99: ...s 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 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 Policy Specify the drive cache policy Enable Enable...

Page 100: ...can survive the loss of two drives in each of the RAID 6 sets without losing data RAID 60 is best implemented on two RAID 6 drive groups with data striped across both drive groups Use RAID 60 for data that requires a very high level of protection from loss RAID 60 can support up to eight spans and tolerate up to 16 drive failures though less than total drive capacity is available Two drive failure...

Page 101: ...ives in the Drives panel to create a second drive group 7 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right as shown in Figure 56 8 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim 9 Choose whether to use drive encryption Figure 56 WebBIOS Drive Group Definition Screen 10 After you finish selecting drives for the drive groups select e...

Page 102: ...plays in the right frame under the heading Span 13 Hold Ctrl while you select a second drive group of three or more drives and click Add to SPAN Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span 14 Click Next The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears as shown in Figure 58 You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drive s 15...

Page 103: ... across multiple drives not including parity drives For example consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe In this case the stripe size is 64 KB and the strip size is 16 KB You can set the strip size to 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 and 1024 KB A larger strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs rand...

Page 104: ...ither a battery to protect the controller cache or an uninterruptible power supply UPS to protect the entire system If you do not use a battery or a UPS and there is a power failure you risk losing the data in the controller cache 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 me...

Page 105: ...configuration preview 21 If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable click Accept to save the configuration Otherwise or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration 22 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu appears 4 6 Creating a CacheCade Configuration This section contains the procedures for creat...

Page 106: ...rates the IO performance of HDD based drive groups while requiring only a small investment in CacheCade software technology To support full throughput for multiple direct attached CacheCade software this feature reduces I O processing overhead in the 2108 chip based MegaRAID controllers CacheCade offers performance equivalent to flash based controllers and better performance for RAID 5 and RAID 6 ...

Page 107: ...cheCade Configuration Figure 61 CacheCade Array Selection Screen 3 Select an array with free space from the drop down list and click Select Array The selected array moves to the right frame under the heading Selected Array 4 Click Next The Create CachCade Disk screen appears as shown in Figure 62 ...

Page 108: ...r 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Creating a CacheCade Configuration Figure 62 CacheCade Disk Screen 5 Click Next to accept the drive group 6 If you need to undo the changes click Reclaim The Config Wizard Preview screen appears as shown in Figure 63 ...

Page 109: ...ade Configuration Preview 7 Click Accept if the configuration is OK Otherwise or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration 8 If you accept the configuration click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration The WebBIOS main menu screen appears as shown in Figure 64 It shows the CacheCade virtual drive ...

Page 110: ...y management for the data security solution This solution protects your data in case of theft or loss of physical drives This section describes how to enable change or disable the drive security settings and how to import a foreign configuration 4 7 1 Enabling the Security Key Identifier Security Key and Password Perform the following steps to enable the encryption settings for the security key id...

Page 111: ... Security Settings Screen 2 To enable the drive security settings select Enable drive security and click Accept The Drive Security Choose mode wizard appears as shown in the following figure This wizard allows you to choose the security key management mode External Key Management EKM mode Local Key Management LKM mode Figure 66 Drive Security Choose mode ...

Page 112: ... restart The restart message appears as shown in Figure 71 6 If you select LKM in Drive Security Choose mode wizard Figure 66 the screen used to create a security key identifier appears as shown in the following figure Figure 67 Enable Drive Security Enter Security Key ID Screen 7 Accept the default security key ID or enter a new security key ID 8 Click Next The Enable Drive Security Enter Securit...

Page 113: ...curity key Enter the new drive security key again to confirm The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted 10 Click Next The Enable Drive Security Enter Pass Phrase screen appears as shown in Figure 69 You have...

Page 114: ...n enter the new pass phrase again to confirm The pass phrase is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter DBCS characters in the pass phrase field or security key field Firmwa...

Page 115: ... and pass phrase if applicable that you entered and returns you to the main menu CAUTION If you forget the security key you will lose access to your data Be sure to record your security key information You might need to enter the security key to perform certain operations 4 7 2 Enabling Drive Security using EKM EKM is used for key management when a large number of systems are deployed You can auto...

Page 116: ...y Key and Pass Phrase If you selected disk based encryption when you made the RAID configuration the drive security will be enabled Perform the following steps to change the encryption settings for the security key identifier security key and pass phrase 1 Click Drive Security on the main WebBIOS screen The Change Drive Security screen appears as shown in Figure 72 Figure 72 Change Drive Security ...

Page 117: ... click Accept 4 7 4 Change Security from EKM to LKM The Change Security Settings Introduction screen appears as shown in Figure 73 Figure 73 Change Security Settings Introduction 3 Select Change current security s ettings and click OK the system restart message appears as shown in Figure 71 4 Select Switch to Local Key management LKM mode the Change Security Settings Security Key ID screen appears...

Page 118: ... you want to use the existing security key ID or enter a new security key ID You have the following options Use the existing security key identifier Current security key identifier Enter a new security key identifier New security key identifier 6 Click Next The Change Security Settings Security Key screen appears as shown in Figure 75 You have the option to use the existing security key or enter a...

Page 119: ...curity key 8 If you want to create a new drive security key either enter a new drive security key in the New security key field or click Suggest to fill the new security key 9 Enter the new drive security key again in the Confirm field The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and ...

Page 120: ...2 characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Non US keyboard users must be careful not to enter DBCS characters in the pass phrase field or security key field Firmware works only with the ASCII character set 13 Click Accept If you entered a new pass phrase the Authenticate Drive Se...

Page 121: ...vices Security Options Figure 77 Authenticate Drive Security Settings Screen 15 Enter the current security key and click OK The text box for the security key can hold up to 32 characters The key must be at least eight characters After you enter the correct security key the Confirm screen appears as shown in Figure 78 ...

Page 122: ...ey is not needed WebBIOS saves the changes to the security settings and returns you to the main menu If the current security key is needed the Authenicate Drive Security Settings screen appears 4 7 5 Changing Security from LKM to EKM Perform the following steps if you want to change security from LKM to EKM 1 Select Drive Security from the WebBIOS main page 2 Select Change Drive security The Chang...

Page 123: ... and click OK the Authenticate Drive Security Settings screen is displayed Figure 72 4 7 6 Disabling the Drive Security Settings Perform the following steps to disable the drive security settings NOTE If you disable the drive security settings you cannot create any new secure virtual drives Disabling these settings does not affect the security or data of foreign drives If you removed any drives th...

Page 124: ...onfiguration Utility Selecting SafeStore Encryption Services Security Options Figure 80 Drive Security 2 To disable the drive security settings select Disable drive security and click Accept The Confirm Disable Drive Security screen appears as shown in Figure 81 ...

Page 125: ...view and change the properties for controllers virtual drives drives and BBUs 4 8 1 Viewing Controller Properties WebBIOS displays information for one SAS controller at a time If your computer system has multiple SAS controllers you can view information for a different controller by clicking Controller Selection on the main screen When the Controller Selection screen appears select the controller ...

Page 126: ...ies Screen The information on this 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 and the number of drives connected to the controller 2 Click Next to view the second Controller Properties screen as shown in Figure 83 ...

Page 127: ...ter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 83 Second Controller Properties Screen 3 Click Next to view the third Controller Properties screen as shown in Figure 84 Figure 84 Third Controller Properties Screen ...

Page 128: ...round initialization of virtual drives connected to the selected 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 controller The default is 30 percent Reconstruction Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to reconstruction of drives conne...

Page 129: ...ion to control the interval in seconds between spindown of drives connected to this controller The delay prevents a drain on the system s power supply that would occur if all drives spun down at the same time The default is 30 minutes Stop CC on Error Enable this option if you want to stop a consistency check when the controller BIOS encounters an error The default is No Maintain PD Fail History E...

Page 130: ...any of these policies make a selection from the drop down menu and click Change The Operations panel lists operations that can be performed on the virtual drive To perform an operation select it and click Go Choose from the following options Select Delete to delete this virtual drive For more information see Section 4 12 2 Deleting a Virtual Drive Select Locate to make the LEDs flash on the drives...

Page 131: ...data and provides automatic protection for the boot volume You can use the Recovery feature to take a snapshot of a volume and to restore a volume or file See Section 4 10 Using MegaRAID Recovery for the MegaRAID Recovery procedure 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 132: ...t MakeDriveOffline if you want to force the drive offline NOTE If you force offline a good drive that is part of a redundant drive group with a hot spare the drive will rebuild to the hot spare drive The drive you forced offline will go into the Unconfigured Bad state Access the BIOS utility to set the drive to the Unconfigured Good state Select Locate to make the LED flash on the drive This works...

Page 133: ...ferent from spinning a drive down into powersave mode because it also involves flagging the drive as ready to remove Therefore if you choose to prepare a drive for removal Ready to Remove displays in the device tree for that drive instead of Powersave 4 8 4 Viewing and Changing Battery Backup Unit Information If your SAS controller has a battery backup unit BBU you can view information about it an...

Page 134: ...Device Properties Figure 88 Second Controller Properties Screen 3 Click Present in the Battery Backup field The Battery Module screen appears as shown in Figure 89 This screen contains the following information Battery information Design information Capacity information Auto Learn properties and settings ...

Page 135: ... interval and the auto learn mode at their default settings 4 8 4 1 Setting the Learn Delay Interval The learn delay interval is the length of time between automatic learning cycles Perform the following steps to change the interval a Open the drop down menu in the Auto Learn Mode field b Select the learn mode as Auto the default This is so the controller performs the learning cycle automatically ...

Page 136: ...enu in the Auto Learn Mode field b Select an auto learn mode c Click Go to set the auto learn mode NOTE When you replace the iBBU the charge cycle counter is reset automatically 4 9 Expanding a Virtual Drive You can increase the size of a virtual drive to occupy the remaining capacity in a drive group In addition you can add drives to the virtual drive in order to increase capacity Follow these st...

Page 137: ...ic protection for the boot volume You can use the Recovery feature to take a snapshot of a volume and to restore a volume or file Snapshot functionality allows you to capture data changes to the volume and if data is deleted accidentally or maliciously you can restore the data from the view or roll back to a snapshot at a previous point in time PiT MegaRAID Recovery supports up to eight snapshots ...

Page 138: ...back to Select the most recent PiT snapshot to roll back to c Reboot the system The system automatically rolls back to its previous state based on the selected PiT snapshot 3 Reduce the risk of extended downtime during application updates upgrades in the IT center a When the application is offline take a snapshot of the application volume b Install each patch individually and test for any new defe...

Page 139: ...Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 92 Virtual Drive Screen 2 Click Enable MegaRAID Recovery in the Operations panel of the screen 3 Click Go in the Operations panel of the screen The Enable MegaRAID Recovery screen appears as shown in Figure 93 ...

Page 140: ...ository virtual drive can be associated with the same drives or a common set of drives or the two virtual drives can be located on two completely separate set of drives Using a separate set of drives for the virtual drive and the Snapshot Repository virtual drives provides a performance advantage over using a common set of drives 5 Click the Update Capacity button to determine the available capaci...

Page 141: ... the allocated percentage of capacity or the snapshot repository without first disabling snapshots and losing any snapshot data 4 10 3 Creating Snapshots and Views You can use WebBIOS to create up to eight snapshots of a volume WebBIOS shows the snapshots in chronological order from the oldest to the newest Each snapshot is a PiT snapshot of the virtual drive that is the Snapshot Base First create...

Page 142: ...r Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 94 Snapshot Base Virtual Drive Operations 3 Click Manage Snapshots in the Operations panel The Virtual Drive Properties screen appears as shown in Figure 95 ...

Page 143: ...in the Enter snapshot name textbox and click Create Snapshot This creates a snapshot that appears as a link in the Snapshot Timeline 5 Click on the link of a specific snapshot The snapshot details appear 6 Click Advanced The Snapshot Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 101 7 Click Create View The Create View screen appears as shown in Figure 96 ...

Page 144: ...covery Figure 96 Create View Screen 8 Enter a view name in the Enter View Name field specify the capacity of the view in the Write Capacity field and click OK This creates the view After you create a view you can view details about both the snapshot and the view on a single page as shown in Figure 97 ...

Page 145: ...ll of them at one time concurrent snapshots Each snapshot has the same name and timestamp Follow these steps to create concurrent snapshots 1 Click Controller Properties on the WebBIOS main screen The first Controller Properties screen displays There are three Controller Properties screen 2 Click Next to on the first two Controller Properties screens to access the third Controller Properties scree...

Page 146: ... virtual drives 4 10 5 Selecting the Snapshot Settings You can use the Snapshot Settings screen to perform the following actions Take a snapshot on reboot This action takes a snapshot of the virtual drive when you reboot after every successful system shutdown This feature is mainly intended to take a snapshot of boot virtual drives to allow the operating system to be restored in case of corruption...

Page 147: ...egaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 100 Virtual Drive Screen 2 Click Manage Snapshots The Snapshot Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 101 ...

Page 148: ...lly delete the oldest snapshot option or select the Stop tracking snapshots using the radio button 4 Click Finish 4 10 6 Viewing Snapshot Properties You can view the properties of a snapshot such as the total capacity capacity used and capacity available Follow these steps to view snapshot properties 1 Click a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the WebBIOS CU main screen The Virtual Drive sc...

Page 149: ...SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 102 Virtual Drive Screen 2 Click Snapshot Properties The Snapshot Repository Properties screen appears as shown in Figure 103 ...

Page 150: ...e volume This action is often used where there are malicious files that cannot be traced Reboot the system and then roll back to a snapshot that does not have the malicious or corrupt files Follow these steps to roll back the volume version to an earlier version 1 After you determine there are malicious or corrupt files start the WebBIOS configuration utility 2 Access the Virtual Drive screen by c...

Page 151: ...tware User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 104 Virtual Drive Screen 3 Click the AdvOpers radio button and then click Go The Advanced Operations screen appears as shown in Figure 105 ...

Page 152: ...ning up a Snapshot Repository The clean up option can be performed only on a Snapshot Repository virtual drive Perform a cleanup if a Snapshot Base virtual drive goes offline and the Snapshot Repository virtual drive is still connected to the system After you perform the cleanup memory that was allocated to the offline base virtual drives will be available to the Snapshot Repository virtual drive ...

Page 153: ...tware User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility Using MegaRAID Recovery Figure 106 Virtual Drive Screen 2 Click the AdvOpers radio button and then click Go The Advanced Operations screen appears as shown in Figure 107 ...

Page 154: ...Event Information The SAS controller firmware monitors the activity and performance of all storage configurations and devices in the system When an event occurs such as the creation of a new virtual drive or the removal of a drive an event message is generated and is stored in the controller NVRAM You can use the WebBIOS CU to view these event messages To do this click Events on the main WebBIOS C...

Page 155: ...ating to the drive enclosure 2 Select an Event Class Information Warning Critical Fatal or Dead 3 Enter a Start Sequence number between the First Sequence and Last Sequence numbers The higher the number the more recent the event 4 Enter the Number of events of this type that you want to view and click Go The first event in the sequence appears in the right panel 5 Click Next or Prev to page forwar...

Page 156: ...onfigure If multiple virtual drives are defined on a single drive group you can delete a virtual drive without deleting the whole drive group CAUTION Back up any data that you want to keep before you delete the virtual drive To delete a virtual drive follow these steps 1 Access the Virtual Drive screen by clicking on a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the WebBIOS CU main screen The Virtual...

Page 157: ...st to show the configurations The GUID Global Unique Identifier entries on the drop down list are OEM names and will vary from one installation to another 2 Select a configuration or All Configurations 3 Perform one of the following steps a Click Preview to preview the foreign configuration s The Foreign Configuration Preview screen appears as shown in Figure 110 b Click Clear to clear the foreign...

Page 158: ... 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 import procedure and clear procedure are described in Section 4 12 3 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or drive re...

Page 159: ...r considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration No rebuilds occur after the import operation because there is no redundant data to rebuild the drives with 4 12 3 2 Importing Foreign Configurations from Integrated RAID to MegaRAID The Integrated RAID solution simplifies the configuration options and provides firmware support in its host controllers We...

Page 160: ...BIOS utility to import the existing configuration to the RAID controller or clear the configuration so you can create a new one See Section 4 12 3 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration for the procedures used to import or clear a foreign configuration To import a foreign configuration you must first enable security to allow importation of locked foreign drives If the drives are locked and ...

Page 161: ... on the controller the following wizard appears Figure 112 Import Foreign Drives in EKM or LKM mode The Locked drives field displays the locked physical drives and their corresponding security key identifiers You must enter the drive security key in the Security Key field 4 12 7 Import Foreign Drives in LKM EKM Secured Locked Drives When you scan a foreign configuration and if you import foreign d...

Page 162: ...running a boot can often take more than 15 minutes Migrations are allowed for the following RAID levels RAID 0 to RAID 1 RAID 0 to RAID 5 RAID 0 to RAID 6 RAID 1 to RAID 0 RAID 1 to RAID 5 RAID 1 to RAID 6 RAID 5 to RAID 0 RAID 5 to RAID 6 RAID 6 to RAID 0 RAID 6 to RAID 5 Table 22 lists the number of additional drives required when you change the RAID level of a virtual drive Follow these steps t...

Page 163: ...e list of drives The available RAID levels are limited based on the current RAID level of the virtual drive plus the number of drives available 5 Click Go 6 When the message appears 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 ...

Page 164: ...w JBOD drive you must change the drive state from JBOD to Unconfigured Good Rebuilds start only on Unconfigured Good drives After you set the drive state to Unconfigured Good the drive state information always remains on the drive and you can use the drive for configuration See Section 4 12 3 3 Troubleshooting Information for more information about DDF and metadata 4 13 WebBIOS Dimmer Switch This ...

Page 165: ...re User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Dimmer Switch Figure 115 Controller Information Power Save Mode for Config Drives 2 Click Next The Controller Properties screen appears as shown in the following figure ...

Page 166: ...oftware User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Dimmer Switch Figure 116 Controller Properties 3 Click Next The Controller Properties screen with the Manage Powersave option appears in the following figure ...

Page 167: ...er Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Dimmer Switch Figure 117 Controller Properties Manage Powersave option 4 Click the Manage Powersave option The Power Save Setting screen appears as shown in the following figure ...

Page 168: ...Page 168 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4 WebBIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Dimmer Switch Figure 118 Power Save Setting 5 Select all the check boxes to go to the following screen ...

Page 169: ... if you select all the check boxes except the configured drives then the following screen appears Figure 120 Power Save Setting except Configured Drive 7 Under the Specify the power save setting below field in Figure 118 select the Unconfigured drives check box to let the controller enable the Unconfigured drives to enter the Power Save mode 8 Select the Hot spare drives check box to let the contr...

Page 170: ... 121 Power Save Settings Confirmation Message If you do not specify the Power Save settings in the Power Save settings screen as shown in Figure 118 the following message appears Figure 122 Power Save Settings Not Saved Message 4 13 1 Power Save mode You can select the drive standby time and the Power Save mode by selecting the Auto Max Max without cache option 1 Select the drive standby time usin...

Page 171: ...can schedule the drive active time by selecting the Start time and End time in the Power Save Settings screen Perform the following steps to schedule the drive active time 1 Click the Advanced button in the Power Save mode screen as shown in Figure 119 The Power Save Settings Advanced screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 124 Power Save Settings Advanced ...

Page 172: ...The drive active time is scheduled NOTE Select the Do not schedule drive active time check box if you do not want to schedule the drive active time 4 13 3 Power Save While Creating Virtual Drives You can select the power saving policy while creating virtual drives using the Power save Mode drop down selector Figure 125 Power Save policy While Creating Virtual Drives The power save mode can be Max ...

Page 173: ... for operations on drives and virtual drives Change properties for the virtual drives and drives for the controller and other storage components Set retrieve and verify controller default settings Change the firmware on the controllers Monitor the RAID storage systems Support RAID levels 0 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 depending on the RAID controller Create and use scripts with the scriptable CLI tool Confi...

Page 174: ...he Display battery CacheCade SSD Caching unit properties Display enclosure properties Display and set connector mode on supported controllers The following sections describe the command line options in the MegaCLI Configuration Utility that you can use to perform these functions NOTE The MegaCLI error messages are listed in Appendix B NOTE The MegaCLI Configuration Utility has support for the Inte...

Page 175: ...nter commands for a single controller aN multiple controllers a0 1 2 or work on all present controllers aALL This is denoted as aN a0 1 2 aALLin this document and specifies that you can enter commands for one controller multiple controllers or all controllers NOTE All options in the MegaRAID Command Tool are position dependent unless otherwise specified The following table describes the convention...

Page 176: ...the command line Each E S pair specifies one physical device where E means device ID of the enclosure in which a drive resides and Smeans the slot number of the enclosure In the case of a physical device directly connected to the SAS port on the controller with no enclosure involved the format of S can be used where S means the port number on the controller For devices attached through the backpla...

Page 177: ... feature uses high performing CacheCade SSD Caching software as a secondary tier of cache to provide faster reads and to maximize transactional I O performance Using CacheCade SSD Caching software as controller cache allows for very large data sets to be present in cache delivering performance up to 50 times greater than regular cache in read intensive applications such as online transaction proce...

Page 178: ...cheCade software cache drive Table 26 Delete Solid State Cache Drive s Convention MegaCli CfgCachecadeDel LX L0 2 5 LALL aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Deletes the specified CacheCade software cache drive or drives on the selected controller s You can delete multiple CacheCade software cache drives or all of the CacheCade software caches Table 27 Software License Key Convention MegaCli ELF GetSafeId a...

Page 179: ...data is always encrypted by the drive In the following options E0 S0 E1 S1 specifies the enclosure ID and slot ID for the drive See Chapter 3 SafeStore Disk Encryption for more information about the SED feature 5 7 1 Use Instant Secure Erase on a Physical Drive Use the command in the following table to perform an Instant Secure Erase of data on a physical drive The Instant Secure Erase feature let...

Page 180: ...rovided string The controller uses the security key to lock and unlock access to the secure user data This key is encrypted into the security key blob and stored on the controller If the security key is unavailable user data is irretrievably lost You must take all precautions to never lose the security key CreateSecurityKey Creates the security key SecurityKey sssssssssss Enters the new security k...

Page 181: ...he new security key The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character e g The space character is not permitted Passphrase sssssssssss Enters the new passphrase The pass phrase is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contai...

Page 182: ...le 36 Verify the Security Key ID Convention MegaCli VerifySecurityKey SecurityKey sssssssssss aN Description Verifies that the security key is the correct one for the self encrypted disk VerifySecurityKey Verifies the security key SecurityKey sssssssssss Enters the new security key The security key is case sensitive It must be between eight and thirty two characters and contain at least one number...

Page 183: ...ample for RebuildRate val you can enter a percentage between 0 percent and 100 percent as the value for the rebuild rate The rebuild rate is the percentage of the compute cycles dedicated to rebuilding failed drives At 0 percent the rebuild is done only if the system is not doing anything else At 100 percent the rebuild has a higher priority than any other system activity NOTE We recommend the def...

Page 184: ...s enabled or disabled Values 0 Disabled 1 Enabled PredFailPollInterval Number of seconds between predicted fail polls Values 0 to 65535 BatWarnDsbl Disable warnings for missing battery or missing hardware Values 0 Enabled 1 Disabled EccBucketSize Size of ECC single bit error bucket Values 0 to 255 EccBucketLeakRate Leak rate in minutes of ECC single bit error bucket Values 0 to 65535 AbortCCOnErro...

Page 185: ... AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl CopyBackDsbl LoadBalanceMode SMARTCpyBkEnbl SSDSMARTCpyBkEnbl MaintainPdFailHistoryEnbl EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs EnblSSDPatrolRead NCQDsply UseFDEOnlyEncrypt WBSupport AutoEnhancedImportDsbl PrCorrectUncfgdAreas DsblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the properties on the selected controller s EccBucketCount Count of single bit ECC errors currently in...

Page 186: ...y for the SAS 8888ELP RAID controller at this time You must enable specific ports depending on how you intend to use the controller Table 46 Display Time and Date on Controller Convention MegaCli AdpGetTime aN Description Displays the time and date on the controller This command uses a 24 hour format For example 7 p m would display as 19 00 00 Table 47 Get Connector Mode Convention MegaCli AdpGetC...

Page 187: ...vention MegaCli AdpPR Dsbl EnblAuto EnblMan Start Stop Info SetStartTime yyyymmdd hh maxConcurrentPD aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets Patrol Read options on a single controller multiple controllers or all controllers Dsbl Disables Patrol Read for the selected controller s EnblAuto Enables Patrol Read automatically for the selected controller s This means Patrol Read will start automatically after t...

Page 188: ...n the virtual drive by enclosure and slot to use to boot from Get Displays the bootable virtual drive ID Table 52 Options for BIOS Status Convention MegaCli AdpBIOS Enbl Dsbl SOE BE EnblAutoSelectBootLd DsblAutoSelectBootLd Dsply aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets BIOS options The following are the settings you can select on a single controller multiple controllers or all controllers Enbl Dsbl Enable...

Page 189: ...lowing formats BBU Status for Adapter xx Battery Type XXXXXX string Voltage xx mV Current xx mA Temperature xx C Firmware Status xx Battery state xx Gas Gauge Status Fully Discharged Yes No Fully Charged Yes No Discharging Yes No Initialized Yes No Remaining Time Alarm Yes No Remaining Capacity Alarm Yes No Discharge Terminated Yes No Over Temperature Yes No Charging Terminated Yes No Over Charged...

Page 190: ...displays in the following format BBU Capacity Info for Adapter x Relative State of Charge xx Absolute State of Charge xx Remaining Capacity xx mAh Full Charge Capacity xx mAh Run Time to Empty xxx Min Average Time to Empty xxx Min Average Time to Full xxx Min Cycle Count xx Max Error xx Table 56 Display BBU Design Parameters Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd GetBbuDesignInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description ...

Page 191: ...s saves battery power consumption Table 57 Display Current BBU Properties Convention MegaCli AdpBbuCmd GetBbuProperties aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays current properties of the BBU The information displays in the following formats BBU Properties for Adapter x Auto Learn Period xxx Sec Next Learn Time xxxx Sec Learn Delay Interval value Value in hours not greater than 168 hours 7 days Auto Lea...

Page 192: ...ment Convention MegaCli AdpEventLogInfo GetEventlogInfo GetEvents info warning critical fatal GetSinceShutdown info warning critical fatal GetSinceReboot info warning critical fatal IncludeDeleted info warning critical fatal GetLatest number info warning critical fatal f filename Clear aN a0 1 2 aALL GetCCIncon f filename LX L0 2 5 LALL aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Manages event log entries The foll...

Page 193: ...e one RAID drive group out of all of the unconfigured good drives and a hot spare if desired This is for RAID levels 0 5 6 10 50 or 60 All free drives are used to create a new drive group and if desired one hot spare drive If it is not possible to use all of the free drives the command will abort with a related error level If there are drives of different capacities the largest drive is used to ma...

Page 194: ...drive enclosure slot numbers used to construct a drive group WT Write through WB Write back Selects write policy NORA No read ahead RA Read ahead ADRA Adaptive read ahead Selects read policy Direct Cached Selects cache policy CachedBadBBU NoCachedBadBBU Specifies whether to use write cache when the BBU is bad Hsp Specifies drive to make the hot spare with Force Specifies that drive coercion is use...

Page 195: ...to use write cache when the BBU is bad szXXXXXXXX Specifies the capacity for the virtual drive where XXXX is a decimal number of MB However the actual capacity of the virtual drive can be smaller because the driver requires the number of blocks from the drives in each virtual drive to be aligned to the stripe size If multiple size options are specified CT configures the virtual drives in the order...

Page 196: ... span There are factors such as the type of controller that limit the number of drives you can use RAID 10 requires an even number of drives as data from one drive is mirrored to the other drive in each RAID 1 drive group You can have an even or odd number of spans Multiple drive groups are specified using the ArrayX E0 S0 option Note that X starts from 0 not 1 All of the drive groups must have th...

Page 197: ...CLI does not validate the setup when restoring the RAID configuration The CfgSave option stores the configuration data and controller properties in the file Configuration data has only the device ID and sequence number information of the drives used in the configuration The CfgRestore option will fail if the same device IDs of the drives are not present Table 69 Manage Foreign Configuration Inform...

Page 198: ...virtual drive s on the selected controller s You can delete one virtual drive multiple virtual drives or all of the selected virtual drives on selected controller s Table 71 Display Free Space Convention MegaCli CfgFreeSpaceInfo aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays all of the free space available for configuration on the selected controller s The information displayed includes the number of drive g...

Page 199: ...on Allows you to change the following virtual drive parameters WT Write through WB Write back Selects write policy Immediate Indicates that the changes take place immediately NORA No read ahead RA Read ahead ADRA Adaptive read ahead Selects read policy Cached Direct Selects cache policy CachedBadBBU NoCachedBadBBU Specifies whether to use write cache when the BBU is bad RW RO Blocked Selects acces...

Page 200: ...l The fast initialization option initializes the first and last 8 Mbyte areas on the virtual drive The full option allows you to initialize the entire virtual drive Abort Aborts the ongoing initialization on the virtual drive s ShowProg Displays the snapshot of the ongoing initialization if any ProgDsply Displays the progress of the ongoing initialization The routine continues to display the progr...

Page 201: ...ual drives runs sequentially for the given adapter s ExcludeLd Specify the virtual drive numbers not included in the scheduled CC The new list will overwrite the existing list stored on the controller This is optional StartTime Sets the next start time The date is in the format of yyyymmdd in decimal digits and followed by a decimal number for the hour between 0 23 inclusively This is optional Set...

Page 202: ...he RAID level of the virtual drive when you start reconstruction You might need to add or remove a drive to make this possible Start Add PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 Adds listed drives to the virtual drive and starts reconstruction on the selected virtual drive Start Rmv PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 Removes one drive from the existing virtual drives and starts a reconstruction ShowProg Displays a snapshot of the on...

Page 203: ...drives that have preserved cache Table 84 Discard the Preserved Cache of a Virtual Drive s Convention MegaCli DiscardPreservedCache Lx L0 1 2 Lall force aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Discard the preserved cache of the virtual drive s Table 85 Discard the Preserved Cache of a Virtual Drive s Convention MegaCli LdExpansion pN dontExpandArray Lx L0 1 2 Lall aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Expands the virtual...

Page 204: ...1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Provides information about the drives connected to the enclosure and controller slot This includes information such as the enclosure number slot number device ID sequence number drive type capacity if a drive foreign state firmware state and inquiry data For SAS devices this includes additional information such as the SAS address of the drive For SAS expanders this inc...

Page 205: ...the slots for the drives Force Force the drive to the Unconfigured Good state Table 90 Change Drive State Convention MegaCli PDHSP Set Dedicated ArrayN Array0 1 EnclAffinity nonRevertible Rmv PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Changes the drive state as it relates to hot spares and associates the drive to an enclosure and virtual drive on a single controller multiple controllers or all...

Page 206: ...itialization This option is useful for running the application through scripts ProgDsply Displays the ongoing clear progress The routine continues to display the initialization progress until at least one initialization is completed or a key is pressed Table 92 Rebuild a Drive Convention MegaCli PDRbld Start Stop ShowProg ProgDsply PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Manages a drive reb...

Page 207: ... here 3 pdonline 5 15 10 Display the Drives in Missing Status Use the command in the following table to mark the configured drive as missing for the selected controller s Table 93 Locate Drive and Activate LED Convention MegaCli PDLocate PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Locates the drive s for the selected controller s and activates the drive activity LED Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the ...

Page 208: ...rives Table 97 Prepare Unconfigured Drive s for Removal Convention MegaCli PDPrpRmv Undo PhysDrv E0 S0 E1 S1 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Prepares unconfigured drive s for removal The firmware spins down this drive The drive state is set to unaffiliated which marks it as offline even though it is not a part of a configuration Undo This option undoes this operation If you select undo the firmware mar...

Page 209: ...me aN a0 1 2 aAll Description Flashes the firmware with the file specified at the command line Firmware files used to flash a physical device can be of any format The CLI utility assumes that you provide a valid firmware image and it flashes the same The physical device has to do error checking SataBridge Allows you to download the SATA Bridge firmware in online mode Physdrv E0 S0 Specifies the ph...

Page 210: ... virtual disk where XXXX is a decimal number of MB However the actual size of the virtual drive might be smaller because the driver requires the number of blocks from the physical drives in each virtual drive to be aligned to the stripe size If multiple size options are specified CT will configure the virtual drives in the order of the options entered in the command line The configuration of a par...

Page 211: ...he commands in this section are used for enclosures 5 16 1 Display Enclosure Information Use the command in the following table to display enclosure information for selected controller s Table 102 Set the Mapping Mode of the Drive to the Selected Controller Convention MegaCli DirectPdMapping Enbl Dsbl Dsply aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Sets the mapping mode of the drives connected to the specified c...

Page 212: ...rChk aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Flashes the firmware with the ROM file specified at the command line The NoSigChk option forces the application to flash the firmware even if the check word on the file does not match the required check word for the controller This option flashes the firmware only if the existing firmware version on the controller is lower than the version on the ROM image If you sp...

Page 213: ... Use the command in the following table to start the battery test This command requires a system reboot 5 20 Recovery Snapshot Related Options The commands in this section are used to perform actions with the Recovery advanced software also known as Snapshot P200038104 The Recovery feature uses Snapshot technology to offer a simplified way to recover lost data and provides protection for any volum...

Page 214: ...the source virtual drive AutoDeleteOldestSnapshot Optional parameter if specified enables the AutoDeletOldestSnapshot for the source virtual drive Lx x specifies the Source LD number on which to enable snapshot Table 112 Disable the Snapshot Feature Convention MegaCli Snapshot Dsbl Lx aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Command disables the snapshot on the source virtual drive Lx x specifies the Source LD ...

Page 215: ...lue is 0 this command disables the AutoDeleteOldestSnapshot feature on the source virtual drive If the value is 1 it enables the AutoDeleteOldestSnapshot feature on the source virtual drive Lx x specifies the source LD number for the command Table 115 Delete a Snapshot Convention MegaCli Snapshot DeleteSnapshot SnapshotTime yyyymmdd hh mm ss all force y LN L0 1 2 aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Deletes...

Page 216: ...ecifies the access policy of the view szXXX Optional Specifies the size of the view in MB where XXX is a decimal number Lx x specifies the source LD number for the command Table 117 Delete a View Convention MegaCli Snapshot DeleteView SnapshotTime yyyymmdd hh mm ss Lx aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Deletes the view SnapshotTime yyyymmdd hh mm ss Optional If specified this action deletes the view on th...

Page 217: ...on Displays snapshot and view information for the source virtual drive If the virtual drive is a repository virtual drive it displays the LD info the number of source virtual drives mapped and their target ID andthe number of holes SnapshotTime yyyymmdd hh mm ss Optional If specified this displays the snapshot information for the snapshot with the time stamp yyyymmdd hh mm ss ViewTime yyyymmdd hh ...

Page 218: ...storage subsystem bandwidth and overall transactional application performance when used with a 6 Gb s MegaRAID SATA SAS controller The FastPath feature supports full optimization of CacheCade SSD Caching software and hard disk drive HDD virtual drive groups to deliver a three fold improvement in read and write IOPS compared to MegaRAID controllers not utilizing FastPath technology Also FastPath so...

Page 219: ...NCQDsply MaintainPdFailHistoryEnbl RstrHotSpareOnInsert DisableOCR EnableJBOD DsblCacheBypass BootWithPinne dCache AutoEnhancedImportDsply AutoDetectBackPlaneDs bl EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs SpinDownTime DefaultSnap shotSpace DefaultViewSpace AutoSnapshotSpace CopyBac kDsbl LoadBalanceMode UseFDEOnlyEncrypt UseDiskActivityForLocate DefaultLdPSPolicy DisableLdPsInterval DisableLdPsTime SpinUpEncDrvCn...

Page 220: ...Enbl val SSDSMARTCpyBkEnbl val NCQEnbl NCQDsbl MaintainPdFailHistoryEnbl val RstrHotSpareOnInsert val EnblSpinDownUnConfigDrvs val DisableOCR val BootWithPinnedCache val AutoEnhancedImportEnbl AutoEnhancedImportDsbl CopyBackDsbl val AutoDetectBackPlaneDsbl val LoadBalanceMode val UseFDEOnlyEncrypt val DsblSpinDownHsp val SpinDownTime val EnableJBOD val DsblCacheBypass val useDiskActivityForLocate ...

Page 221: ...e virtual disk with the specified size This option can also be used to create a configuration on the free space available in the array strpszM Specifies the strip size where the strip size values are 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 or 1024 Mega Bytes Hsp E5 S5 Creates hot spares when you create the configuration The new hot spares will be dedicated to the virtual disk used in creating the configuration Thi...

Page 222: ...cified CT will configure the virtual disks in the order of the options entered in the command line The configuration of a particular virtual disk will fail if the remaining size of the array is too small to configure the virtual disk with the specified size This option can also be used to create a configuration on the free space available in the array strpszM Specifies the strip size where the str...

Page 223: ...be smaller because the driver requires the number of blocks from the physical drives in each virtual disk to be aligned to the strip size If multiple size options are specified CT will configure the virtual disks in the order of the options entered in the command line The configuration of a particular virtual disk will fail if the remaining size of the array is too small to configure the virtual d...

Page 224: ... Cache and Access policies of the Virtual Disks Convention MegaSCU LDGetProp Cache Access Name DskCache PSPolicy Lx L0 1 2 LALL aN a0 1 2 aALL Description Displays the cache and access policies of the virtual disk s The possible parameters are Cache Cached Direct Displays cache policy WT Write through WB Write back Selects write policy NORA No read ahead RA Read ahead ADRA Adaptive read ahead Sele...

Page 225: ...ion Use the command in the following table to display help information for the MegaCLI utility Table 132 Display Help for MegaCLI Convention MegaCli ShowSummary f filename aN Description Displays a summary of system information controller information drive information virtual drive information and enclosure information ...

Page 226: ...Page 226 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5 MegaRAID Command Tool Miscellaneous Options ...

Page 227: ...des greater flexibility when creating virtual drives for your specific requirements In addition the Modify Drive Group Wizard enables you to increase the capacity of a virtual drive and to change the RAID level of a drive group NOTE The Modify Drive Group Wizard was previously known as the Reconstruction Wizard 6 1 2 Monitoring Storage Devices MegaRAID Storage Manager software displays the status ...

Page 228: ...system requirements 6 3 Prerequisites to Running MSM Remote Administration MSM requires ports 3071 and 5571 to be open in order to function Follow these steps to make sure these ports are open and to configure multicasting 1 Configure the system with a valid Internet Protocol IP address Make sure there is no IP address conflict within the sub network and make sure that ports 3071 and 5571 are open...

Page 229: ...essary find and double click the setup exe file to start the installation program 2 When the Welcome screen appears click Next If MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on this system then an upgraded installation occurs 3 Read the screen text and select Modify Repair or Remove 4 When the next screen appears read and accept the user license and click Next The Customer Information s...

Page 230: ... Screen 8 Select one of the Setup options The options are fully explained in the screen text Normally you would select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server Select Custom Installation if you want to select individual program components 9 Click Next to continue If you selected Custom Installation as your setup option the second Setup Type screen appears as sho...

Page 231: ...nfigurator Use this mode when you want to manage and monitor servers remotely When you install MSM in Client mode on a laptop or a desktop you can log in to a specific server by providing the IP address Select Server to install only those components required for remote server management To begin installation click on Install on the next screen that appears Select StandAlone if you will use MegaRAI...

Page 232: ...allation 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 installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software the server screen will appear as shown in Figure 130 The server screen will not list any servers You can use this screen to manage systems remotely Figure 130 Server Screen 6 4 3 Installing ...

Page 233: ...owing command tar zxvf MegaRaidStorageManager SOLX86 tar gz A new disk directory is created 3 Go to the new diskdirectory 4 In the diskdirectory 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 su...

Page 234: ...ust be installed on the target system 6 4 6 Linux Error Messages The following messages can appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software has been installed This message indicates that the user has installed more than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software This can be done by using the rpm forcecom...

Page 235: ...ace these two images in the installation directory MegaRAID Storage Manager folder 6 Start the application Following are some of the important points File names for both entries should not have any spaces For example the valid file name would be logo_test_1 png or LogoTest1 png or TEST_SPLASH_FILE jpg The logo image dimensions should not exceed 160 85 width height The splash screen image dimension...

Page 236: ... 3i system build an interface between the hardware driver of the MegaRAID controller and remote applications such as MSM Management is performed through MSM installed on a remote machine Linux Windows See Section 6 5 4 1 VMWare ESX 3i Management through CIM and CMPI for more information The Linux installer of MSM works under console with minimal changes Hardware RAID is currently supported in ESX ...

Page 237: ...sual including the VMWare guest tools The virtual network card should be linked to a Vswitch that has a VMKernel port attached For a quick installation no change is recommended 3 VM Network Configuration Case 1 Your network contains a DNS server Configure a host entry that belongs to your internal zone and make sure that the FQDN of the ESXi server can be resolved Example local lsi com and 192 19 ...

Page 238: ...fication for example by popup or e mail There is no status information for the controller Events are collected as long as MSM runs on the Client MSM responds more slowly For more details on these limitations see Section 6 5 4 2 Differences in MSM for VMware ESXi 6 5 4 1 VMWare ESX 3i Management through CIM and CMPI Management of VMWare ESX 3i is possible only through a Common Information Model CIM...

Page 239: ...ll Access while the non root users can have only View Only access Multiple root users can simultaneously login using Full Access mode to access the VMWare ESXi server Event Logging The event logging feature for MSM Client connected to a VMware ESXi system behaves as follows There is no support for retrieving initial logs the events that occurred before a client logs in Only those events that occur...

Page 240: ...or you cannot configure the severity of the AENs There is no pop up service support There is no e mail and system log support Monitor service support is not available 6 6 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider This section describes the installation and configuration of the MegaRAID Common Information Model CIM provider The Common Information Model offers common definitions of management inform...

Page 241: ... the MOF and unregisters the libraries The SAS Provider is no longer on the system NOTE tog pegasus binaries such as cimmof cimprovider and wbemexec should be in PATH variable of etc profile and hence should be defined in all environments of the system For Pegasus version 2 5 x perform the following steps 1 After you install the SAS Pegasus provider verify that libLsiSASProvider so and libLsiSASPr...

Page 242: ...es that might require administrative attention This section describes the installation and configuration of the MegaRAID SNMP agent on Linux Solaris and Windows operating systems 6 7 1 Prerequisite for SNMP Agent RPM Installation The SNMP agent application depends upon the standard SNMP Utils package Please make sure that the SNMP Util package is present in the system before you install SNMP agent...

Page 243: ...ar machine add the IP address of that machine in the com2secsection of the snmpd conffile For example to get a trap in 10 0 0 144 add the following to snmpd conf 4 To run stop the snmpddaemon enter the following command etc init d snmpd start stop 5 To start stop the SAS SNMP Agent daemon before issuing a SNMP query enter the following command etc init d lsi_mrdsnmpd start stop You can check the s...

Page 244: ...n the Solaris machine 6 7 3 2 Installation SNMP on Solaris To install SNMP for Solaris perform the following procedure 1 Unzip the SAS SNMP Agent package 2 Run the install script by executing the following command install sh NOTE The installation will exit if there are any existing versions of storelib and sassnmp installed on the Solaris machine Uninstall the existing version by using the followi...

Page 245: ...e and client hostname ipaddress under SECTION Access Control Setup in the etc sma snmp snmpd conf file as shown in the following excerpt SECTION Access Control Setup This section defines who is allowed to talk to your running SNMP Agent rocommunity a SNMPv1 SNMPv2c read only access community name arguments community default hostname network bits oid rocommunity snmpclient 172 28 157 149 b Add a re...

Page 246: ...Agent by entering the following command etc init d lsi_mrdsnmpd start 6 7 3 7 Uninstalling the SNMP Package The uninstall shscript is located under the etc lsi_mrdsnmp sasdirectory Use the following command to uninstall the package cd etc lsi_mrdsnmp sas uninstall sh 6 7 4 Installing an SNMP Agent on Windows This section explains how to install and configure SAS SNMP Agent for the Windows operatin...

Page 247: ...ger on the Solaris 10 U5 U6 U7 U8 x86 and x64 operating system 6 8 1 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Solaris 10 Follow these steps to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Solaris 10 update 5 1 Copy the MegaRaidStorageManager SOLX86 tar gz file to a temporary folder 2 Untar the MegaRaidStorageManager SOLX86 tar gz file using the following command tar zxvf M...

Page 248: ... MSM Remote Administration MSM requires ports 3071 and 5571 to be open to function Follow these steps to prepare to run MSM Remote Administration 1 Configure the system with valid IP address Make sure there is no IP address conflict with in the sub network Ports such as 3071 and 5571 are open and available for MSM framework communication 2 Disable all security manager and firewall 3 Configure the ...

Page 249: ...ndows Firewall has blocked some features of the program click Unblock to allow 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 Manager StartupUI To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a SUSE Linux SLES...

Page 250: ...anager software is running and click Update If you check the Connect to remote server at IP address box you can also access a standalone remote installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software if it has a network connection NOTE For the VMWare CIMOM the server button does not denote the health of the server The button is always green regardless of the health of the system NOTE The VMWare server d...

Page 251: ...ve full access to the VMWare server 4 Select an access mode from the drop down menu for Login Mode and click Login Select Full Access if you need to both view and change the current configuration Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the current configuration NOTE If the computer is networked this is the login to the computer itself not the network login 5 Enter the root administra...

Page 252: ... left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays the Dashboard view the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the attached devices depending on which tab is selected 7 2 1 1 Dashboard View The Dashboard view shows an overview of the system and covers the following features Properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives Total capacity configured capacity and uncon...

Page 253: ...hy is the system itself followed by the controller and the backplane One or more controllers are installed in the system The controller label identifies the MegaRAID controller such as the MegaRAID SAS 9260 8i controller so that you can easily differentiate between multiple controllers Each controller has one or more ports Drives and other devices are attached to the ports The properties for each ...

Page 254: ... Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 136 MSM Physical View 7 2 1 3 Logical View The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers virtual drives and the drives and drive groups that make up the virtual drives The properties for these components appear in the right panel Figure 137 shows the Logical view ...

Page 255: ...nus MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 137 MSM Logical View 7 2 1 4 Controller Properties In the physical view and the logical view you can view the chip temperature and controller temperature under controller properties for the controller PERC 7 5 as displayed in the following figure ...

Page 256: ...D Storage Manager Window and Menus MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 138 Chip and Controller Temperature 7 2 1 5 Physical Drive Temperature The temperature for the physical drive is displayed in the following figure Figure 139 Physical Drive Temperature ...

Page 257: ...r no tape related operationsare supportedby the utility If these operationsare required use a separate backup application A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed For example this icon indicates that a drive has failed Status System Controller Backplane Enclosure Port Drive group Virtual drive Online drive Power save mode Dedicated hot spare Global hot spare Batter...

Page 258: ... the controller name NVRAM size and device port count For more information see Section 9 3 Monitoring Controllers Section 9 4 Monitoring Drives and Section 9 6 Monitoring Virtual Drives The Graphical View tab displays information about the temperature fans power supplies and voltage sensors To display a graphical view of a drive click an enclosure icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Man...

Page 259: ...lable This is where you access the Configuration Wizard that you use to perform configuration drive groups and virtual drives To access the Wizard select the controller in the left panel and then select Go To Controller Create Virtual Drive 7 2 4 3 Log Menu The Log menu includes options for saving and clearing the message log For more information about the Log menu see Appendix A Events and Messag...

Page 260: ...Page 260 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu ...

Page 261: ...quirements This section describes the virtual drive parameters and explain how to create simple and advanced storage configurations 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings This section describes the virtual drive settings that you can select when you use the advanced configuration procedure to create virtual drives You should change these parameters only if you have a specific reason for doing so I...

Page 262: ...eived all of the data in a transaction This option eliminates the risk of losing cached data in case of power failure Always Write Back In this 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 Write Back with BBU the default In this mode the controller enables Write Back caching when the battery backup u...

Page 263: ...Simple configuration is the quickest and easiest way to create a new storage configuration When you select simple configuration mode the system creates the best configuration possible using the available drives NOTE You cannot created spanned drives using the simple configuration procedure To create spanned drives use the advanced configuration procedure described in Section 8 1 5 Creating a Virtu...

Page 264: ...iguration Creating a New Storage Configuration Figure 141 Virtual Drive Creation Menu The dialog box for the configuration mode simple or advanced appears as shown in Figure 142 Figure 142 Virtual Drive Simple Configuration Mode 2 Click Simple and press Next ...

Page 265: ...mary screen appears as shown in Figure 145 If unconfigured drives are available Figure 144 appears and you can go to step 4 Figure 143 Using the Free Capacity of an Existing Drive Group 3 Check the option Use Unconfigured drives create new drive group and press Next The Create Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in Figure 144 If there are different types of drives attached to the controller such...

Page 266: ...choose depend on the number of drives available To learn more about RAID levels see Chapter 2 Introduction to RAID 6 Click the Assign a hot spare check box if you want to assign a dedicated hot spare to the new virtual drive If an unconfigured good drive is available that drive is assigned as a hot spare Hot spares are drives that are available to replace failed drives automatically in a redundant...

Page 267: ...uration Figure 145 Create Virtual Drive Summary Window 11 Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration The new virtual drive is created after you click Finish After the configuration is completed a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully NOTE If you create a large configuration using ...

Page 268: ...u can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode This example shows the configuration of a spanned drive group 1 Perform either of the following steps to bring up the Configuration Wizard a Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID S...

Page 269: ...nced and then click Next The Create Drive Group Settings screen appears as shown in Figure 148 Figure 148 Create Drive Group Settings Screen 3 Select the following items on the Create Drive Group Settings screen a Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop down menu To make a spanned drive select RAID 10 RAID 50 or RAID 60 in the RAID level field ...

Page 270: ...et a drive security method The drive security feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use disk based key management for your data security solution This solution provides protection to the data in the event of theft or loss of drives See Section 11 5 SafeStore Encryption Services for more information about drive security and encryption c Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives ...

Page 271: ...s step The Virtual drive settings window appears as shown in Figure 151 The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive NOTE The parameters in the Virtual drive settings window display in disabled mode grayed out for SAS Integrated RAID IR controllers because these pa...

Page 272: ... screen notifies you of this change 4 Change any virtual drive settings if desired See Section 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings for more information about the virtual drive settings 5 Click Create Virtual Drive The new virtual drive appears under the drive group The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are available Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive...

Page 273: ...ore drive capacity exists the dialog box asks whether you want to create more virtual drives If no more drive capacity exists you are prompted to close the configuration session 8 Select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to create additional virtual drives If you select Yes the system takes you to the Create Virtual Drive screen as shown in Figure 144 If you select No the utility asks whether...

Page 274: ...0 Choose the drives which you want to be configured as Unconfigured Good and select the check box before Do not convert JBOD drives to unconfigured good drives NOTE If you do not like to make any JBOD as Unconfigured good drive s select the check box before Do not convert JBOD drives to unconfigured good drives then the MSM application skips changing any selected JBOD to unconfigured good drive 11...

Page 275: ...t spare drive follow these steps 1 Select the Physical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu and click the icon of an unused drive For each drive the screen displays the port number enclosure number slot number drive state drive capacity and drive manufacturer 2 Select Go To Physical Drive Assign G lobal Hot Spare or Go To Physical Drive Assign D edicated Hot Spare 3 If y...

Page 276: ...onding If you lower the task rates below the defaults rebuilds and other background tasks might run very slowly and might not complete within a reasonable time If you decide to change the values record the original default value here so you can restore them later if necessary Rebuild Rate ____________ Background Initialization BGI Rate ____________ Check Consistency Rate ____________ 1 Select a co...

Page 277: ...tes 5 When the warning message appears click OK to confirm that you want to change the task rates 8 5 Changing Power Settings The RAID controller includes Dimmer Switch technology that conserves energy by placing certain unused drives into Power Save mode In Power Save mode the drives use less energy and the fan and the enclosure require less energy to cool and house the drives respectively Also t...

Page 278: ... Disk Data Format DDF and other metadata when you make changes to RAID configurations hot spare drives and unconfigured drives NOTE If your controller does not support this option the Power Settings field does not display Follow these steps to change the power save setting 1 Select a controller icon in the Physical tab or the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window 2 S...

Page 279: ...ain menu screen the nodes for the unconfigured good drives that are spun down appear with Powersave after their status 8 5 1 Enhanced Dimmer Switch Power Settings This section helps you change the power save settings using the Dimmer Switch Enhancement using the Power Save mode 1 Select a controller icon in the Physical tab or the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager windo...

Page 280: ... Select the Drive standby time Alt d using the drop down selector from the Drive standby time field NOTE The Drive Standby time drop down selector will be enabled only if any of the check boxes above are checked The drive standby time can be 30 mins 1hr 1 30 hrs 2hrs through 24 hrs 7 Select the Power Save mode using the drop down selector from the Select Power Save mode field The mode can be Auto ...

Page 281: ...ure 161 Power Save Settings Not Saved 8 5 2 Power Save Settings Advanced You can schedule the drive active time by selecting the Start time and End time in the Power Save Settings Advanced screen Perform the following steps to schedule the drive active time 1 Click the Advanced button in the Manage Power Save Settings screen as shown in Figure 159 2 The Power Save Settings Advanced screen is displ...

Page 282: ... steps to arrive at the Manage Power Save Settings screen 1 Right click on Drive group Manage Power Settings The Manage Power Save Settings screen appears as shown in the following figure Figure 163 Manage Power Save Settings Automatically Spin up 2 Select the Power Save mode from the drop down selector The values can be Max Max without cache Auto None and controller defined in the same order NOTE...

Page 283: ...Create Drive Group the following confirmation dialog box appears Figure 165 Power Save Mode SSD Drives 8 6 Changing Virtual Drive Properties You can change the Read Policy Write Policy and other virtual drive properties at any time after a virtual drive is created Follow these steps to change the virtual drive properties 1 Select a virtual drive icon in the Physical tab or the Logical tab in the l...

Page 284: ...guration Changing Virtual Drive Properties Figure 166 Set Virtual Drive Properties Menu The Set Virtual Drive Properties dialog box displays as shown in Figure 8 6 Figure 167 Set Virtual Drive Properties Screen 3 Change the virtual drive properties as needed ...

Page 285: ... RAID 6 configuration if two or more virtual drives are defined on a single drive group The Logical view tab shows which drive groups and drives are used by each virtual drive 8 7 1 Accessing the Modify Drive Group Wizard NOTE The Modify Drive Group Wizard was previously known as the Reconstruction Wizard Perform the following steps to access the Modify Drive Group Wizard options 1 Click the Logic...

Page 286: ...n Figure 170 f Figure 170 Modify Drive Group Wizard The following sections explain the Modify Drive Group Wizard options 8 7 2 Adding a Drive or Drives to a Configuration CAUTION Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you add a drive to it Follow these steps to add a drive or drives to a configuration with the Modify Drive Group Wizard 1 Click the Logical tab in the left panel of ...

Page 287: ...on to access the Modify Drive Group Wizard The Modify Drive Group Wizard appears Figure 171 Modify Drive Group Wizard 4 Select the RAID level that you want to change migrate the drive group to and click Next The following screen appears It lists the drives you can add and it states whether you have to add a minimum number of drives to change the RAID level from the current level to the new RAID le...

Page 288: ... to any unconfigured drives that you want to add and then click Next NOTE The drive s you add must have the same capacity as or greater capacity than the drives already in the drive group or you cannot change the RAID level The Summary screen appears This screen shows the current settings and what the settings will be after the drives are added Figure 173 Modify Drive Group Summary Screen ...

Page 289: ...nager main menu screen 2 Click a drive icon in the left panel of the screen 3 Select Go To Physical Drive Make Drive Offline on the menu bar or right click the drive and select Make Drive Offline from the menu A confirmation message appears The message states that this operation cannot be aborted and asks whether you want to continue 4 Click Yes to accept and complete the removal of the drive from...

Page 290: ...ual drive to another RAID level you can keep the same number of drives or you can add drives In some cases you have to add a certain number of drives to migrate the virtual drive from one RAID level to another The screen indicates the minimum number of drives you are required to add if so CAUTION Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you change the RAID level Follow these steps t...

Page 291: ... the RAID level that you want to change migrate the drive group to and click Next The following screen appears The screen states the number of drives that you have to add to change the RAID level from the current level to a new RAID level that require more drives Figure 176 Add Drive s to the Current Configuration Screen 5 Select the unconfigured drive or drives to add and then click Next ...

Page 292: ...ted and asks whether you want to continue 8 Click Yes to accept and complete the migration to the new RAID level The operation begins on the virtual disk To monitor the progress of the RAID level change select Manage Show Progress in the menu bar 8 7 6 New Drives Attached to a MegaRAID Controller When you insert a new drive on a MegaRAID system if the inserted drive does not contain valid DDF meta...

Page 293: ... more information about DDF and metadata See Section 10 5 Making a Drive Offline or Missing for the procedure to change a drive to the Unconfigured Good drive state 8 8 Deleting a Virtual Drive CAUTION Be sure to back up the data that is on the virtual drive before you delete it Be sure that the operating system is not installed on this virtual drive You can delete virtual drives to rearrange the ...

Page 294: ...Page 294 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 8 Configuration Deleting a Virtual Drive ...

Page 295: ...ts exceptions and e mail settings Figure 178 Event Information Window Each message that appears in the event log has a severity level that indicates the importance of the event as shown in Table 133 a date and timestamp and a brief description You can click an event to display the same information in a window For a list of all events see Appendix A Events and Messages Monitoring System Events and ...

Page 296: ... saving the log first 9 2 Configuring Alert Notifications The Alert Notification Configuration feature allows you to control and configure the alerts that MegaRAID Storage Manager software sends when various system events occur To access this screen select Tools Configure Alerts on the main menu screen as shown in Figure 179 Figure 179 Alert Notification Configuration Menu The Alerts Notification ...

Page 297: ...end to the monitor NOTE When you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session are lost You can select the Mail Server tab to perform the following actions Enter or edit the sender e mail address Enter the SMTP server Require authentification of the e mail server Save an xml backup file of the entire alert configuration Load all of the values from a previously saved back...

Page 298: ...rt delivery methods 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab 2 Under the Alerts Delivery Methods heading select one of the severity levels 3 Click Edit The Alert Notification Delivery Methods dialog box appears as shown in Figure 181 Figure 181 Alert Notification Delivery Methods Dialog Box 4 Select the desired alert delivery methods for alert notifications at...

Page 299: ... Alerts Notification Configuration screen 6 Click OK This saves all of the changes made to the event 9 2 3 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events To change the event severity level for a specific event perform the following steps NOTE See Table 133 for details about the severity levels 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Alerts Setting tab The Alerts Setting port...

Page 300: ...ifferent severity level for the event from the menu 6 Press ESC to return to the Alerts Notification Configuration screen 7 Click OK to save all of the changes made to the events 9 2 4 Multiple Events Displayed in a Single Pop up Window You can view multiple events in a single pop up window as shown in the following figure Figure 184 Pop up for Multiple Events 9 2 5 Entering or Editing the Sender ...

Page 301: ...er name and Password fields when selected by default Clearing the check box disables these fields Perform the following steps to enter or edit the address 1 On the Alerts Notification Configuration screen click the Mail Server tab The Mail Server options appears as shown in Figure 185 The authentication check box is selected by default 2 Enter a user name in the User name field 3 Enter the passwor...

Page 302: ...ad Backup A message warns that when you load a saved backup file all unsaved changes made in the current session will be lost 3 Click Yes The drive directory appears from which you can select a backup configuration to load 4 Select the backup configuration file it should be in xml format 5 Click Open The drive directory disappears 6 Click OK The backup configuration is loaded and the Alerts Notifi...

Page 303: ...n Configuration screen The E mail section of the screen appears as shown in Figure 186 2 Click an e mail address in the Recipient e mail addresses field 3 Click Test 4 Confirm whether the test message was sent to the e mail address If MegaRAID Storage Manager cannot send an e mail message to the e mail address an error message appears 9 2 11 Removing E mail Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notific...

Page 304: ...ntroller information click a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window The controller properties display in the right panel as shown in Figure 187 Figure 187 Controller Properties Most of the information on this screen is self explanatory Note the following The Rebuild Rate Patrol Read Rate Reconstruction Rate Consistency Check Rate and BGI Rate background initializa...

Page 305: ...ndow The drive properties appear in the right panel as shown in Figure 188 Figure 188 Drive Information The information on this panel is self explanatory There are no user selectable properties for physical devices Icons for other storage devices such as CD ROM drives and DAT drives can also appear in the left panel The Power Status property shows On when a drive is spun up and Powersave when a dr...

Page 306: ...n menu the drive space used by that virtual drive is displayed in green 9 5 Running a Patrol Read A patrol read periodically verifies all sectors of drives connected to a controller including the system reserved area in the RAID configured drives A patrol read can be used for all RAID levels and for all hot spare drives This operation is initiated only when the controller is idle for a defined tim...

Page 307: ... all of the virtual drives 6 Optional Change the frequency at which the patrol read will run The default frequency is weekly 168 hours which is suitable for most configurations The other options are hourly daily and monthly NOTE We recommend that you leave the patrol read frequency and other patrol read settings at the default values to achieve the best system performance If you decide to change t...

Page 308: ...he default foreground tasks will run more slowly and it might seem that the system is not responding If you lower the task rate below the default rebuilds and other background tasks might run very slowly and might not complete within a reasonable time For more information about the patrol read task rate see Section 8 4 Changing Adjustable Task Rates 9 6 Monitoring Virtual Drives When MegaRAID Stor...

Page 309: ...he LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking except for hot spare drives 3 To stop the LEDs from blinking click Go To Virtual Drive Stop Locating Virtual Drive 9 7 Monitoring Enclosures When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running you can see the status of all enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel If an enclosure is operating normally ...

Page 310: ... Learn Cycle Properties To set the learn cycle properties perform the following steps 1 Click the Physical tab to open the physical view 2 Select the BBU icon in the left panel 3 Click the Go To BBU Set Learn Cycle Properties The BBU operations screen appears 4 On the BBU operations screen click Enable automatic learn cycles and click Go You can delay the start of the next learn cycle by up to 7 d...

Page 311: ...e 193 Group Show Progress Window Operations on virtual drives appear in the left panel of the Group Show Progress window and operations on drives appear in the right panel The following operations appear in this window Background or foreground initialization of a virtual drive see Section 10 1 Initializing a Virtual Drive Rebuild see Section 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive Modify Drive Group see Section 8...

Page 312: ...pter 9 Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Check Consistency see Section 10 2 Running a Consistency Check 2 Optional Click Abort All to abort all ongoing processes 3 Click Close to close the window ...

Page 313: ...d on the virtual drive you are initializing 4 Select the Fast Initialization check box if you want to use this option If you leave the box unchecked MegaRAID Storage Manager software will run a Full Initialization on the virtual drive For more information see Section 8 1 1 Selecting Virtual Drive Settings 5 Click Start to begin the initialization You can monitor the progress of the initialization ...

Page 314: ...tual drives that use RAID levels 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy For example in a system with parity checking consistency means computing the data on one drive and comparing the results to the contents of the parity drive You should run a consistency check on fault tolerant virtual drives periodically You must run the consistency check if you suspect that the virtual dri...

Page 315: ... a consistency check 1 Click the Physical tab or Logical tab and select the controller 2 Click Go To Controller Set Consistency Check Properties Figure 195 shows the consistency check properties menu item Figure 195 Set Consistency Check Properties Option The Set Consistency Check Properties dialog box appears as shown in Figure 196 Figure 196 Set Consistency Check Properties Dialog Box 3 Choose o...

Page 316: ...ps to set the properties for a consistency check 1 Click the Physical tab or Logical tab and select the controller 2 Click Go To Controller Schedule Consistency Check The Schedule Consistency dialog box appears as shown in Figure 196 Figure 197 Schedule Consistency Check Dialog Box 3 Perform the following steps to schedule the consistency check a Select how often to run the consistency check from ...

Page 317: ...u can run a consistency check on multiple drives at one time Follow these steps to run a group consistency check 1 Click Manage Check Consistency The Group Consistency Check appears as shown in Figure 198 Figure 198 Group Consistency Check Dialog Box 2 Check the virtual drives to run the consistency check on or click Select All to select all of the virtual drives 3 Click Start You can monitor the ...

Page 318: ...of them on the screen If not it notifies you that no foreign configuration is found 3 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the drive detection 10 4 Rebuilding a Drive If a single drive in a RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 or RAID 50 virtual drive fails the system is protected from data loss A RAID 6 virtual drive can survive two failed drives If hot spare disks are available a failed drive is r...

Page 319: ...valid 3 If necessary create a hot spare drive for the virtual drive from which you have removed the drive See Section 8 3 Adding Hot Spare Drives When a hot spare is available the data on the virtual drive will be rebuilt You can now use the removed drive for another configuration CAUTION If MegaRAID Storage Manager software detects that a drive in a virtual drive has failed it makes the drive off...

Page 320: ... click OK MegaRAID Storage Manager software displays the version of the existing firmware and the version of the new firmware file 4 When you are prompted to indicate whether you want to upgrade the firmware click Yes The controller is updated with the new firmware code contained in the romfile 5 Reboot the system after the new firmware is flashed The new firmware does not take effect until reboot...

Page 321: ...h MegaRAID Recovery MegaRAID CacheCade MegaRAID RAID 6 MegaRAID RAID 5 11 2 1 MegaRAID Software Licensing MegaRAID Software licensing authorizes you to enable the MegaRAID advanced software features present in the MSM application You have to obtain the activation key to enable and use the advanced software features present in the controller You can also implement the rehosting process by configuri...

Page 322: ...0 Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options The Activated MegaRAID Advanced Software fields consist of Advanced Software License and Mode columns The Advanced Software column displays the list of advanced softwares present in the controller The License column displays the license details for the list of advanced softwares present in the Advanced Software column The license details validates if the...

Page 323: ...defined value generated by the controller Alternatively you can copy the value and paste it in the text box for the applicable field 4 Click Activate The Activate MegaRAID Advanced Software Choose Method wizard appears as shown in the following figure 11 2 3 Activation Key Figure 201 Activate MegaRAID Advanced Software Choose Method Perform the following steps to enter the Activation key 1 Click t...

Page 324: ...rd displays the list of the advanced softwares along with their former status and new status in the controller The Advanced Software column displays the currently available software in the controller The Former Status column displays the status of the available advanced software prior to entering the activation key The New Status column displays the status of the available advanced software after ...

Page 325: ...ncorrect Activation Key Scenario 3 If you enter an incorrect activation key and if there is a mismatch between the activation key and the controller the following message appears Figure 205 Activation Key Mismatch NOTE Entering a space in the Activation Key field disables the Next button in Figure 201 If you click Cancel in the Activate MegaRAID Advanced Software Choose Method as shown in Figure 2...

Page 326: ... trial key will be deactivated and all the advanced software associated with it will be disabled appears as shown in the following figure Figure 207 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key NOTE Except the yellow shading the other shading of the text is provided for easy understanding in the relevant screens 11 2 6 1 Activating a Trial Software When you activate a trial software a message This...

Page 327: ...dvanced Software Figure 208 Activating a Trial Software 11 2 6 2 Activating the Unlimited Key When you activate the unlimited key or a trial key a message Review the summary and go back if you need to make corrections appears as shown in the following figure Figure 209 Activating an Unlimited Key ...

Page 328: ...and appears only when the keyvault and the unsecured keys exist 1 Select any one of the following options to view the Securing Advanced MegaRAID Software Confirmation wizard 2 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu and click a controller icon 3 Select Go To Controller Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options wizard Figure 211 Securing Advanced Meg...

Page 329: ...e 200 Choose any one of the following options to configure the Key vault 1 Click the Configure Key Vault button in the Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software options wizard in Figure 200 2 Select Go To Controller Manage Premium Feature The Configure Key Vault Confirm Re Hosting Process wizard appears as shown in the following figure Figure 212 Configure Key Vault 3 Select the I acknowledge that I have ...

Page 330: ... keyvault and the unsecured keys are present at the same time 11 2 8 Rehosting Complete If you want to transfer the advanced software options from one controller to another use the rehosting process The rehosting process makes sure that these options are secured in the keyvault You have to configure the keyvault to complete the rehosting process Choose any one of the following options to complete ...

Page 331: ... advanced software features are transferred to the controller 7 Click Cancel if you do not want the re hosting process 11 2 9 Deactivate Trial Software When you want to deactivate a trial software use the Deactivate All Trial Software wizard Perform the following steps to enable the deactivate trial software button 1 Click the Deactivate All Trial Software button in the Manage MegaRAID Advanced So...

Page 332: ...e it tracks only the changes that are made to a volume after the PiT is created Disk space for PiTs is reserved in the Snapshot Repository virtual drive and the PiT is expanded in small increments as new data is written to the volume Multiple PiTs of each volume can be retained online enabling frequent snapshots to be stored in a space efficient manner 11 2 11 Recovery Scenarios There are three pr...

Page 333: ...lation of the defective patch NOTE If the volume is still damaged continue to select from the next most current PiT to the oldest 11 2 12 Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software You can enable the Recovery advanced software in MSM When you enable Recovery you create two virtual drives one as a Snapshot Base or a source and the other as a Snapshot Repository The base virtual drive contains the data...

Page 334: ...ory 11 2 13 Snapshot Repository You can select an existing VD or create a new VD for the snapshot repository Select any one of the options to select or create a new VD Select the VD to use as the Snapshot Repository in the Snapshot Repository field from the Enable MegaRAID Recovery Wizard wizard as shown in Figure 217 Click the Create New button to create a new VD to use as the Snapshot Repository...

Page 335: ...pacity Displays the available capacity on the VD The Total Capacity Displays the total capacity of the VD If the default VDs do not exist in the system the Snapshot Repository field columns will be blank The status of the VD can be optimal degraded or partially degraded 4 In the Select Capacity field use the drop down selector to select the appropriate capacity to use for changes to the base VD Th...

Page 336: ...elected Virtual Drive appears as shown in Figure 218 This wizard lets you to select the VD to be used as the snapshot repository 11 2 14 Selecting the Virtual Drive You can select the VD to use as the snapshot repository and also allocate the capacity for the VD from the snapshot repository Perform these steps to select the VD in the Snapshot Repository field 1 Select the VD to be used as the snap...

Page 337: ...ou can select an existing snapshot schedule or create a new snapshot schedule for the VD Follow these steps to schedule snapshots 1 Select any one of the options shown in the Enable MegaRAID Recovery Create Snapshot Schedule wizard in Figure 219 to schedule snapshots using the radio button Figure 219 Enable MegaRAID Recovery Create Snapshot Schedule Add virtual drive to the existing schedule This ...

Page 338: ...lect the time of the scheduled snapshot Do not schedule any automatic snapshots This option prevents you from capturing automatic snapshots from the system 2 Click Next The Enable MegaRAID Recovery Editing Snapshot Properties wizard appears as shown in Figure 220 You can edit the settings for automatic snapshots 11 2 16 Editing Snapshots You can edit the property settings that are already defined ...

Page 339: ...you want to enable snapshots on VD or not Figure 221 Confirm Enable Snapshots 4 If the answer is Yes select the Confirm check box When you select the Confirm check box the Yes button gets enabled The snapshots get enabled on the VD This VD becomes a snapshot repository Use it only for storing snapshot related data 5 If you click No the snapshots will not be enabled on the selected VD CAUTION After...

Page 340: ...ppears in the right frame of the Properties tab under Snapshot Base Details marked pink in the following figure Figure 222 Snapshot Base details 11 2 18 Manage Snapshots You can create snapshots delete snapshots create views and also edit pause or delete schedules using the Manage Snapshots wizard 1 Select Go To Virtual Drive Manage Snapshot wizard on the menu bar as shown in Figure 223 ...

Page 341: ...elete button The Snapshot field displays the snapshot details The Name column displays the name of the snapshot The Status column displays the status of the snapshot The Capacity Used column displays the capacity consumed by the snapshot You can create the snapshot using the Create Snapshot button and delete the snapshot using the Delete Snapshot button In the View Details field you can create a v...

Page 342: ...ot already taken The frequency can be daily or weekly In the Day field use the drop down selector to edit the day of the snapshot already taken The days can be from Monday through Sunday In the Time field use the drop down selector to edit the time of the snapshot already taken After you select all of the above fields the virtual drives matching these fields appear in the Virtual drives on this sc...

Page 343: ...apshot on every reboot recommended for boot virtual drive option if you want a snapshot on every reboot 2 Click OK The settings are edited 11 2 21 Create View You can create views using the Create View button present in the Manage Snapshots area under the View Details field The view provides the snapshot details of the VD available at that particular time Follow these steps to create views of the ...

Page 344: ...xample view 3 In the Write capacity field use the drop down selector to allocate capacity for writes to the view 4 Click OK The capacity is allocated for writes to the view 11 2 22 Viewing Snapshot Details If the view details of the snapshot are available at that particular time for the VD these details appear under the view details in the Manage snapshots wizard as shown in Figure 227 ...

Page 345: ...apter 11 Using MegaRAID Advanced Software Recovery Advanced Software Figure 227 View Details 11 2 23 No View Details for Snapshot When there is no view for the snapshot the following message appears in the View details area as shown in Figure 228 ...

Page 346: ...ter 11 Using MegaRAID Advanced Software Recovery Advanced Software Figure 228 No view present for the snapshot 11 2 24 No Snapshot Schedule When there are virtual drives with no snapshot schedule the following message appears as shown in Figure 229 ...

Page 347: ...f the PiT snapshots You can search the views to find a snapshot that does not contain the corrupt data or a snapshot that contains the deleted data depending on the situation Follow these steps to create views of the snapshots 1 Click the Logical view on the main menu screen 2 Click the Snapshot Base virtual drive in the left frame 3 Click the Snapshots tab in the right frame This screen shows the...

Page 348: ... volume This action is often used where there are malicious files that cannot be traced Reboot the system and then roll back to that snapshot Follow these steps to roll back the volume version to an earlier version 1 After you determine there are malicious or corrupt files start the WebBIOS configuration utility by pressing Ctrl H during POST 2 Click the Snapshot Base virtual drive in the right fr...

Page 349: ... Delete Snapshot button This deletes the oldest snapshot 11 3 CacheCade Advanced Software MegaRAID CacheCade improves application performance by expanding the MegaRAID read caching capacity The CacheCade feature uses high performing CacheCade software as a secondary tier of cache to provide faster reads and to maximize transactional I O performance Using CacheCade software as controller cache allo...

Page 350: ...rd screen appears 3 Click on unconfigured CacheCade software drives in the left frame to select the drives for the CacheCade drive group as shown in Figure 232 Figure 232 CacheCade Wizard Screen After you select the unconfigured drives the Add button is available 4 Click Add to move the selected drives to the drive group in the right frame as shown in Figure 233 ...

Page 351: ... button is available 5 Click Create CacheCade Drive Group 6 Click Next Use the next screen that appears to select parameters for the cache disk 7 Enter a name for the CacheCade virtual drive in the CacheCade VD name field and click Create Depending on the number of drives you might have the option to set the capacity of the CacheCade drive The CacheCade drive group icon appears in the menu screen ...

Page 352: ... The summary screen appears as shown in Figure 235 This screen displays the drive group name the number of drives the total capacity the free capacity the CacheCade virtual drive name and the capacity being used Figure 235 CacheCade Virtual Drive Summary Screen 9 Click Finish A confirmation message displays after the CacheCade virtual drive is successfully created ...

Page 353: ...th and overall transactional application performance when used with a 6Gb s MegaRAID SATA SAS controller The FastPath feature supports full optimization of CacheCade software and hard disk drive HDD virtual disk groups to deliver an improvement in read and write IOPS that is three times greater than MegaRAID controllers not utilizing FastPath technology Also the FastPath advanced software is faste...

Page 354: ...Services offer the ability to encrypt data on the drives and use the drive based key management to provide data security This solution provides data protection in the event of theft or loss of physical drives If you remove a self encrypting drive from its storage system or the server in which it resides the data on that drive is encrypted and becomes useless to anyone who attempts to access it wit...

Page 355: ... create secure VD using the EKM mode with the support of EKM servers EKM mode is supported by MSM and EKMS is present EKM mode is supported by MSM and EKMS is not present Change the current security settings or switch between the modes Change the security settings when the user is in EKM and wants to switch to LKM Import Foreign Drives 11 5 2 Supporting EKM mode When you choose EKM for drive secur...

Page 356: ...narios occur based on the availability of EKMS Scenario 1 EKM is enabled When EKM is enabled you can see the confirmation message as shown in the following figure The message displayed makes sure that the security is enabled on the controller using EKMS Figure 239 Confirm External Key Management Mode Enabled NOTE On the right side frame of the controller properties in Drive Security Properties you...

Page 357: ...as shown in Figure 241 two options are provided for you If you select the first option Change current security settings you can change the drive security settings on the controller If you select the second option Switch to External Key Management EKM mode you can switch from LKM mode to EKM mode Perform the following steps to configure the Change Security Settings wizard 1 Select the Physical View...

Page 358: ... displayed 4 Select Switch to External key management EKM mode if you want to switch over from LKM mode to EKM mode 5 Click OK After you click OK the authentication drive security key is generated internally by the system 11 5 3 1 Authentication Drive Security Key After you obtain the authentication drive security key from the EKM mode enter the authentication drive security key in the Authenticat...

Page 359: ...he Authentication Drive Security Key dialog box in Figure 242 Scenario 1 EKM is selected and EKMS is not present When EKM is selected and EKMS is not present restart the system and during re boot the boot agent generates the security keys When you restart the system the system restart message appears as shown in the following figure Figure 244 System Restart Scenario 2 Entering a wrong security ke...

Page 360: ...n switch over to LKM mode Perform the following steps to configure the Change Security Settings wizard 1 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and click a controller icon 2 Choose any one of the following options to enable the Change Security Settings wizard Select Go To Controller Change Security Settings in the main navigation bar present in the to...

Page 361: ...MS server is present Scenario 2 EKM server is not present If the EKM server is not present restart your system and during re boot the boot agent generates the security keys When you restart the system the system restart message appears as shown in the following figure Figure 248 System Restart NOTE If you select the Switch to Local key Management LKM mode in the Change Security settings wizard in ...

Page 362: ...torage Manager window and select Scan Foreign Configuration Select Go To Controller Scan Foreign Configuration in the main navigation bar present in the top portion of the MSM screen If a Foreign Configuration is detected the Foreign Configuration Detected screen appears If you choose Import and click OK the Unlock Foreign drives wizard appears as shown in Figure 250 11 5 6 Importing Foreign Drive...

Page 363: ...Security key field the system tries to unlock each of the locked foreign drives using the security key If at least one drive is unlocked then the Import preview screen appears If no drives are unlocked the Incorrect security Key dialog appears 11 5 8 Importing Foreign Drives to EKM When VD is secured with EKM mode and if that VD is in Foreign state and if you switch to LKM mode and if you want to ...

Page 364: ...n one security key the identifier helps you determine which security key to enter Enter a security key After you create a security key you have the option to create secure virtual drives using the key You have to use the security key to perform certain operations You can improve security by entering a password To provide additional security you can require the password whenever anyone boots the se...

Page 365: ...nfirm as shown in Figure 253 NOTE If you forget the security key you will lose access to your data Be sure to record your security key information You might need to enter the security key to perform certain operations The security key is case sensitive It must be between 8 and 32 characters and contain at least one number one lowercase letter one uppercase letter and one non alphanumeric character...

Page 366: ...aracter e g The space character is not permitted The password is case sensitive 8 Optional Enter a password in the Password field and then enter the same password in the Confirm field as shown in Figure 254 Warning messages appear if there is a mismatch between the characters entered in the Password field and the Confirm field or if there is an invalid character entered CAUTION Be sure to record t...

Page 367: ... Changing the Drive Security Settings Perform the following steps to change the encryption settings for the security key identifier security key and password 1 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu and click a controller icon 2 Select Go To Controller Change Drive Security The Change Security Settings Introduction screen appears This screen lists ...

Page 368: ...If you choose to click the option to use a password in addition to the security key 10 If you chose to use a password either enter the existing password or enter a new password and enter the password again to confirm The text box for the passphrase can hold up to 32 characters The key must be at least eight characters The next screen that appears describes the changes you made and asks you whether...

Page 369: ...onfigured drives will be erased Disabling drive security will not affect the security or data of foreign drives 11 5 12 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration A foreign configuration is a RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system You can use MSM to import the foreign configuration to the RAID controller or to clear the foreig...

Page 370: ...st clear the configuration on those drives Perform the following steps to import or clear a configuration 1 Enable drive security to allow importation of locked foreign drives See Section 11 5 9 Enabling Drive Security using LKM for the procedure used to enable drive security 2 After you create a security key right click the controller icon and click Scan for Foreign Configuration If there are loc...

Page 371: ...n any of the following scenarios you should have all of the drives in the enclosure before you perform the import operation Scenario 1 If all of the drives in a configuration are removed and re inserted the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration If you select Import automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives NOTE Star...

Page 372: ...virtual drive became offline will be imported and then automatically rebuilt Automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives Scenario 4 If the drives in a non redundant virtual drive are removed the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration No rebuilds will occur after the import operation because there is no redundant data t...

Page 373: ...laced by the firmware version which is read from the firmware when the event is generated Events and Messages This appendix lists the MegaRAID Storage Manager events that can appear in the event log Table 134 Event Error Levels Error Level Meaning Information Informational message No user action is necessary Warning Some component might be close to a failure point Critical A component has failed b...

Page 374: ...017 Critical Flash programming error 0x0018 Critical Flash timeout during programming 0x0019 Critical Flash chip type unknown 0x001a Critical Flash command set unknown 0x001b Critical Flash verify failure 0x001c Information Flush rate changed to d seconds 0x001d Information Hibernate command received from host 0x001e Information Event log cleared 0x001f Information Event log wrapped 0x0020 Fatal M...

Page 375: ...sistency Check detected uncorrectable double medium errors s at lx on s 0x003d Critical Consistency Check failed on s 0x003e Fatal Consistency Check completed with uncorrectable data on s 0x003f Warning Consistency Check found inconsistent parity on s at strip lx 0x0040 Warning Consistency Check inconsistency logging disabled on s too many inconsistencies 0x0041 Progress Consistency Check progress...

Page 376: ... on s at lx 0x0060 Critical Predictive failure CDB s 0x0061 Fatal Patrol Read puncturing bad block on s at lx 0x0062 Information Rebuild aborted by user on s 0x0063 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0064 Information Rebuild complete on s 0x0065 Critical Rebuild failed on s due to source drive error 0x0066 Critical Rebuild failed on s due to target drive error 0x0067 Progress Rebuild progress on ...

Page 377: ...Fatal Unable to access device s 0x0084 Information Dedicated Hot Spare created on s s 0x0085 Information Dedicated Hot Spare s disabled 0x0086 Critical Dedicated Hot Spare s no longer useful for all drive groups 0x0087 Information Global Hot Spare created on s s 0x0088 Information Global Hot Spare s disabled 0x0089 Critical Global Hot Spare does not cover all drive groups 0x008a Information Create...

Page 378: ...closure s fan d failed 0x00a9 Information Enclosure s fan d inserted 0x00aa Critical Enclosure s fan d removed 0x00ab Critical Enclosure s power supply d failed 0x00ac Information Enclosure s power supply d inserted 0x00ad Critical Enclosure s power supply d removed 0x00ae Critical Enclosure s SIM d failed 0x00af Information Enclosure s SIM d inserted 0x00b0 Critical Enclosure s SIM d removed 0x00...

Page 379: ...R x ELOG x s critical threshold exceeded 0x00cb Critical Single bit ECC error ECAR x ELOG x s further reporting disabled 0x00cc Critical Enclosure s Power supply d switched off 0x00cd Information Enclosure s Power supply d switched on 0x00ce Critical Enclosure s Power supply d cable removed 0x00cf Information Enclosure s Power supply d cable inserted 0x00d0 Information Enclosure s Fan d returned t...

Page 380: ...ache data discarded by user 0x00ee Information Drives missing from configuration at boot 0x00ef Information Virtual drives VDs missing drives and will go offline at boot s 0x00f0 Information VDs missing at boot s 0x00f1 Information Previous configuration completely missing at boot 0x00f2 Information Battery charge complete 0x00f3 Information Enclosure s fan d speed changed 0x00f4 Information Dedic...

Page 381: ...lx on s at lx 0x0110 Information VD medium error corrected on s at lx 0x0111 Warning Bad block table on PD s is 100 full 0x0112 Warning VD bad block table on PD s is 100 full 0x0113 Fatal Controller needs replacement IOP is faulty 0x0114 Information CopyBack started on PD s from PD s 0x0115 Information CopyBack aborted on PD s and src is PD s 0x0116 Information CopyBack complete on PD s from PD s ...

Page 382: ...e update completed on PD s 0x012d Warning Microcode update timeout on PD s 0x012e Warning Microcode update failed on PD s 0x012f Information Controller properties changed 0x0130 Information Patrol Read properties changed 0x0131 Information CC Schedule properties changed 0x0132 Information Battery properties changed 0x0133 Warning Periodic Battery Relearn is pending Please initiate manual learn cyc...

Page 383: ...m errors corrected for s at lx on s at lx 0x0152 Information Controller requests a host bus rescan 0x0153 Information Controller repurposed and factory defaults restored 0x0154 Information Drive security key binding updated 0x0155 Information Drive security is in EKM mode 0x0156 Warning Drive security failed to communicate with EKMS 0x0157 Information s needs key to be s s 0x0158 Warning s secure ...

Page 384: ... s 0x0175 Information s is no longer using CacheCade TM s 0x0176 Critical Snapshot deleted due to resource constraints for s in snapshot repository s 0x0177 Warning Auto Snapshot failed for s in snapshot repository s 0x0178 Warning Controller reset on board expander 0x0179 Warning CacheCade TM s capacity changed and is now 0x lx logical blocks 0x017a Warning Battery cannot initiate transparent lea...

Page 385: ...uide Appendix A Events and Messages Event Messages 0x0187 Information s mirror joined 0x0188 Warning s link d failure in wide port 0x0189 Information s link d restored in wide port Table 135 Event Messages Continued Number Type Event Text ...

Page 386: ...Page 386 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A Events and Messages Event Messages ...

Page 387: ...nvalid command 0x02 DCMD opcode is invalid 0x03 Input parameters are invalid 0x04 Invalid sequence number 0x05 Abort isn t possible for the requested command 0x06 Application host code not found 0x07 Application already in use try later 0x08 Application not initialized 0x09 Given array index is invalid 0x0a Unable to add missing drive to array as row has no empty slots 0x0b Some of the CFG resourc...

Page 388: ...d 0x2d SCSI command done but non GOOD status was received see mf hdr extStatus for SCSI_STATUS 0x2e IO request for MFI_CMD_OP_PD_SCSI failed see extStatus for DM error 0x2f Matches SCSI RESERVATION_CONFLICT 0x30 One or more of the flush operations failed 0x31 FW real time currently not set 0x32 Command issues while FW in wrong state i e GET RECON when op not active 0x33 LD is not OFFLINE IO not po...

Page 389: ... exist 0x4c LD secure operation is not allowed 0x4d Reprovisioning is not allowed 0x4e Drive security type FDE or non FDE is not appropriate for requested operation 0x4f LD encryption type is not supported 0x50 Cannot mix FDE and non FDE drives in same array 0x51 Cannot mix secure and unsecured LD in same array 0x52 Secret key not allowed 0x53 Physical device errors were detected 0x54 Controller h...

Page 390: ...Page 390 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B MegaCLI Error Messages Error Messages and Descriptions ...

Page 391: ... reads to see if the required data is already stored in cache memory If it is already in cache memory a cache hit it is read from cache memory immediately and the main memory read is aborted or not started If the data is not cached a cache miss it is fetched from main memory and saved in cache memory cache flush interval A controller property that indicates how often the data cache is flushed cach...

Page 392: ...ack 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 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 default write policy A virtual drive property indicating whether the default write policy is...

Page 393: ...ehavior of a system when it is first turned on A typical example would be a monitor program in a system that loads the full operating system from drive or from a network and then passes control to the operating system foreign configuration A RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system MegaRAID Storage Manager software allows you to im...

Page 394: ...taching them to another one The firmware on the new controller will detect and retain the virtual drive information on the drives mirroring The process of providing complete data redundancy with two drives by maintaining an exact copy of one drive s data on the second drive If one drive fails the contents of the other drive can be used to maintain the integrity of the system and to rebuild the fai...

Page 395: ...spanned drive group to provide high data throughput especially for large files in an environment that requires no data redundancy RAID 1 Uses data mirroring on pairs of drives so that data written to one drive is simultaneously written to the other drive RAID 1 works well for small databases or other small applications that require complete data redundancy RAID 5 Uses data striping and parity data...

Page 396: ... can be parity data striped across multiple drives in a drive group or it can be a complete mirrored copy of the data stored on a second drive A redundant configuration protects the data in case a drive fails in the configuration revertible hot spare When you use the Replace Member procedure after data is copied from a hot spare to a new drive the hot spare reverts from a rebuild drive to its orig...

Page 397: ... ID number of the controller vendor info A drive property listing the name of the vendor of the drive virtual drive A storage unit created by a RAID controller from one or more drives Although a virtual drive can be created from several drives it is seen by the operating system as a single drive Depending on the RAID level used the virtual drive can retain redundant data in case of a drive failure...

Page 398: ... improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication at any time without notice The products described in this document are not intended for use in implantation or other life support applications where malfunction may result in injury or death to persons The information contained in this document does not affect or change Lenovo product specifications or...

Page 399: ...h Microsoft Windows and Windows Vista are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States other countries or both Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix D Notices Page 399 ...

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