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Summary of Contents for ST1100FR0000

Page 1: ...ST2200FS0000 ST1100FS0000 ST1100FR0000 ST550FR0000 User Guide Seagate X8 Accelerator for Windows Powered by Virident 100728273 Rev A June 2013...

Page 2: ...sion When referring to drive capacity one gigabyte or GB equals one billion bytes and one terabyte or TB equals one trillion bytes Your computer s operating system may use a different standard of meas...

Page 3: ...Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager 10 6 1 1 Details Displayed 11 6 2 X8 Accelerator Device Details 12 6 3 Device Mappings 13 6 3 1 Creating a Logical Drive 13 6 4 Device Configuration 15 6 4 1 Reset to fa...

Page 4: ...0 Troubleshooting 32 11 1 Cannot Find Block Device dev vgca0 32 11 2 Performance is Lower than Expected 33 11 3 Driver Crash on System Boot 33 11 4 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is H...

Page 5: ...where you may obtain source code for the Third Party Software can be found at http www seagate com www I en us support downloads 2 Product License Subject to your compliance with the terms of this EU...

Page 6: ...ANY REASON WHATSOEVER THE ENTIRE LIABILITY OF SEAGATE UNDER ANY PROVISION OF THIS EULA AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY HEREUNDER SHALL BE LIMITED TO AND IN NO EVENT WILL SEAGATE S TOTAL CUMULATIVE DAMAGES...

Page 7: ...he Product and any related technical data are provided with restricted rights Use duplication or disclosure by the U S government is subject to the restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c l iii of...

Page 8: ...ormance intensive applications such as databases business analytics virtualization and high performance computing applications This document explains how to install configure and manage Seagate X8 Acc...

Page 9: ...izontally to line up with the screw holes You will need an m 2 5 screw driver The screws need to be tightened to 4lb in 0 45Nm 3 2 PCI SLOT SELECTION Seagate X8 Accelerator devices need to be installe...

Page 10: ...Offset 4 2 PROCESSOR SETTINGS IN BIOS The following settings are often found under the Advanced Processor Chipset Control BIOS menus Disable the following optional settings Processor Performance Stat...

Page 11: ...tor A reboot of the system is required to enable certain boot parameter changes therefore an appropriate amount of scheduled downtime will be required for these operations 5 1 Installing the Device Dr...

Page 12: ...SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE REV A 8...

Page 13: ...Verify the Device Driver is Loaded and Functioning After the system has rebooted the Seagate X8 Accelerator Drive should be visible in the device manager in the following sections Also please use the...

Page 14: ...the installation package To launch the X8 Accelerator Manager go to Start X8 Accelerator Manager 6 1 Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager The landing panel of the Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager is shown be...

Page 15: ...SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE REV A 11 6 1 1 Details Displayed...

Page 16: ...ls of any specific X8 Accelerator device click on the device name listed on the left panel of the snapin In the following example the details of the device vgca are displayed Beacon can be switched on...

Page 17: ...ws Disk as shown below The following example has two partitions mapped to two Windows disks disk4 and disk5 To use the X8 Accelerator device create a Logical Drive Eg E and H etc 6 3 1 Creating a Logi...

Page 18: ...ffline Disk and Choose Online To initialize the disks Right Click and Select initialize Disk GPT is recommended for 2 2TB devices if the max capacity of the device needs to be utilized NOTE When promp...

Page 19: ...t your device to factory defaults Create a new partition Modify the existing partition 6 4 1 Reset to factory defaults Factory default will return the device to Max Capacity mode and revert to single...

Page 20: ...SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE REV A 16 Click OK to confirm Choose Yes to confirm Reset commences...

Page 21: ...celerator device click on Split vgc a b c at the bottom of the device page This will create a new partition on device vgc a b c Split Partition allows you to change mode The following example shows ho...

Page 22: ...SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE REV A 18 Choose either Maximum Capacity or Maximum Performance Choose Yes to proceed...

Page 23: ...The following example below shows new partition vgca1 6 4 3 Modify Existing Partition To modify existing partition on Seagate X8 Accelerator device click on Modify vgc a b c 0 1 Physical Partition la...

Page 24: ...A 20 Choose the mode using the radio button Confirm by selecting Yes Modify configuration complete in progress Modify configuration is complete Once the partition is modified user can check the new s...

Page 25: ...TEST EXE file Execute test X where X is replaced with the drive letter assigned to the Seagate X8 Accelerator drive The test will create a 4GB test file and exercise reads and writes to that file Sho...

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Page 27: ...on an existing drive 8 2 vgc config Options The usage information for vgc config is listed below While additional options are available within the utility most users will only need to select a number...

Page 28: ...Following example shows Creating Partitions 8 2 2 vgc config Partition Settings Individual partitions may be customized using p vgca 0 1 to change write acceleration mode Only the following options ma...

Page 29: ...PARTITIONS The example below shows how you would use the vgc config exe utility to create partitions Once you create the partitions the Device Manager will automatically refresh itself to display the...

Page 30: ...MONITOR The Seagate X8 Accelerator device driver records both performance data and device state To access this information use the vgc monitor utility To display more detailed information about a spe...

Page 31: ...of sanitization are supported by the Seagate Secure Erase Utility The Seagate Secure Erase Utility complies with the Clear and Purge levels of Sanitization in accordance with the following Government...

Page 32: ...ches 85 C T offline the device completely shuts down However if device cools down and stays below T throttle the IO performance increases and brought back to maximum level 9 2 POWER THROTTLING Power t...

Page 33: ...SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR WINDOWS USER GUIDE REV A 29 vgc monitor exe d vgca You can also refer to X8 Accelerator Manager to verify the status of Temperature Throttling...

Page 34: ...bytes or larger the data blocks themselves should be aligned at 4K boundaries for best performance 10 2 IOMETER Seagate recommends using the 2010 version of IOMeter It is available from the standard...

Page 35: ...31 Ensure the test data alignment is set to 4K bytes for tested Access Specifications By default accesses are sector 512b aligned and as discussed previously this can result in lower than expected pe...

Page 36: ...led driver Please install vgc firmware bundle from support site to upgrade the firmware Solution Update the firmware using instructions in Section 6 Updating Controller Firmware 2 vgcd Not loading ker...

Page 37: ...r does not load automatically on boot When the system has been debugged and the issue fixed to set the device to load automatically on boot by running chkconfig vgcd on 11 4 IOS ARE NOT BEING PROCESSE...

Page 38: ...re 7 Introduction 4 IOMeter 30 IOs are not Being Processed because the Driver is Hung 33 M Modify Existing Partition 19 O Onboard Diagnostic LEDs 33 Operation 27 P Partitioning and Configuring with vg...

Page 39: ...nited States 408 658 1000 ASIA PACIFIC Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte Ltd 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 Singapore 569877 65 6485 3888 EUROPE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology SAS...

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