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Rev. 1.0

AOC-USASLP-H8iR

USER'S GUIDE

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Summary of Contents for AOC-USASLP-H8iR

Page 1: ... R115 Q10 U35 U31 U23 U32 U38 U55 U53 J 10 C112 C108 D12 D11 J P4 J P1 C313 C312 C300 C299 C359 C358 C330 C334 C317 C314 C309 C301 C382 U4 L31 L29 L1 RN1 R145 R1 R192 R175 R182 R100 SD1 SD2 SD3 J 6 J 5 J 4 J 3 U8 C C C 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 4 A A C 1 1 A C A C A C 19 2 20 A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R D12 SYSERR D11 HEARTBEAT OFF ENABLE ON DI SABLE J P...

Page 2: ...AMAGES IN PARTICULAR SUPERMICRO SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA Any disputes arising between manufacturer and customer shall be governed by the laws of Santa Clara County in the State of California USA The State of California Coun...

Page 3: ... Definitions 2 2 2 3 LED Functions 2 3 RAID Minimum Drive Requirements 2 4 Chapter 3 WebBIOS Configuration 3 1 Introduction 3 1 3 2 Accessing the WebBIOS 3 1 3 3 WebBIOS Configuration Wizard 3 1 WebBIOS Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration 3 2 WebBIOS Configuration Wizard Custom Configuration 3 2 3 4 Device Properties 3 3 Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation 4 1...

Page 4: ...ons Menu 5 6 Group Operations Menu 5 7 Log Menu 5 7 Help Menu 5 7 Chapter 6 Configuration 6 1 Creating a New Storage Configuration 6 1 Using Manual Configuration RAID 50 6 14 6 2 Adding Hotspare Disks 6 15 6 3 Changing Adjustable Task Rates 6 16 6 4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties 6 17 6 5 Deleting a Virtual Disk 6 17 6 6 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk 6 18 6 7 Clearing a Storage Configur...

Page 5: ...0 and 60 Preinstalled iButton Operating Systems Supported The AOC USAS H8ir support the following Operating Systems OS Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Each operating system must include the latest patches hot fixes and at least 256 MB of free hard drive space Manual Images All images and layouts shown in this user s guide are based upon the latest PCB Revis...

Page 6: ...rope Address Super Micro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Technical Support rma supermicro nl Customer Support Asia Pacific Address Super Micro Computer Inc 4F No 232 1 Liancheng Rd Chung Ho 235 Taipei County Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 8226 3990 Fax 886 2 ...

Page 7: ...ce is complete For faster service RMA authorizations may be requested online http www supermicro com support rma Whenever possible repack the backplane in the original Supermicro box using the original packaging materials If these are no longer available be sure to pack the backplane in an anti static bag and inside the box Make sure that there is enough packaging material surrounding the backplan...

Page 8: ...viii AOC USASLP H8iR Add on Card User s Guide Notes ...

Page 9: ...ct your equipment from ESD Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic bag Handle the add on card by its edges only do not touch its components periph eral chips memory modules or gold contacts When handling chips or modules avoid touching their pins Put the card and peripherals back into their antist...

Page 10: ...th erboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage 1 3 An Important Note to Users All images and layouts shown in this user s guide are based upon the latest PCB revision available at the time of publishing The card you have received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual ...

Page 11: ... U4 L31 L29 L1 RN1 R145 R1 R192 R175 R182 R100 SD1 SD2 SD3 J 6 J 5 J 4 J 3 U8 C C C 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 4 A A C 1 1 A C A C A C 19 2 20 A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R D12 SYSERR D11 HEARTBEAT OFF ENABLE ON DI SABLE J P1 BI OSENB DRI VE0 3 ON HW DEFL OFF SEEPROM 1078SM BUS DRI VE4 7 J P4 BSR UART DESI GNED I N USA REV1 00 AOC USASLP H8I R Chapter 2 Con...

Page 12: ...0108L 02 2 Internal SAS Connector Drive 4 7 The Internal SAS port connects to the back plane allowing the motherboard to access the hard drives This connector supports up to four HDD ports This card supports SAS SATA1 and SATA2 drives Use a single port SAS ipass cable Super Micro order number CBL 0108L 02 3 I Button The I Button is located on the back side of the SAS allows RAID operation with Meg...

Page 13: ...D2 SD3 J 6 J 5 J 4 J 3 U8 C C C 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 4 A A C 1 1 A C A C A C 19 2 20 A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R A 1 E 3 K 7 9 R D12 SYSERR D11 HEARTBEAT OFF ENABLE ON DI SABLE J P1 BI OSENB DRI VE0 3 ON HW DEFL OFF SEEPROM 1078SM BUS DRI VE4 7 J P4 BSR UART DESI GNED I N USA REV1 00 AOC USASLP H8I R 2 3 LED Functions D11 LED Functions LED Normal State Specificatio...

Page 14: ...rd Drives RAID 0 2 RAID 1 2 RAID 5 3 RAID 6 4 RAID 10 4 2 RAID 1 array RAID 50 6 2 RAID 5 arrays RAID 60 6 2 RAID 6 arrays RAID Minimum Drive Requirements Use the following chart to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment ...

Page 15: ...ed to setup RAID arrays and virtuals disks This section includes an overview of use For more indepth information and descriptions see the WebBIOS Help and other LSI documentation Starting the Configuration Wizard Click the 1 Configuration Wizard link located on the left hand side on the main screen Select a configuration option C 2 lear Configuration New Configuration or Add Configuration Note Cle...

Page 16: ...Help file and other LSI documentation for more complete instructions WebBIOS Configuration The Custom Confirguration window includes two sections Physical Drives 1 and Disk Groups Press CTRL and select each ready desired physical drives from the group Select two drives for RAID 1 and three drives for RAID 5 Click Accept DG 2 For other RAID levels repeat steps 1 and 2 and do the following for RAID ...

Page 17: ... initiation Select Size Select the size for the virtual disk Click Accept or Reset 6 Click Next 7 Preview the configuration and click 8 Accept to continue or Back to go to the previous screen and then click Yes to continue 3 4 Device Properties This section gives an overview for the properties of the adapters virtual disks and drives Adapter Properties Click the Adapter Properties to see the defin...

Page 18: ...r to initialize the virtual drives CC runs a consistency check not available for RAID 0 Physical Drive Properties This section gives an overview of the physical drive properties accessed in the WebBIOS Main screen The physical drive properties cannot be changed at this screen The following information can be changed Select MakeDriveOffline to push the drive offline Select Locate to enable to drive...

Page 19: ...rview of the System Event properties Do the following to view event information Click Events in the WebBIOS main screen 1 Choose an Event Locale from the menu 2 Select an Event Class of Information Warning Critical Fatal or Dead and 3 choose the number of events to view and then click Go ...

Page 20: ...3 6 AOC USASLP H8iR Add on Card User s Guide Notes ...

Page 21: ...ure monitor and maintain storage configurations created under Embedded MegaRAID software The MegaRAID Storage Manager graphical user interface GUI makes it easy for you to create and manage storage configurations Note MegaRAID Storage Manager software can be used to manage a wide range of MegaRAID controllers Some MegaRAID Storage Manager software features are not applicable for Embedded MegaRAID ...

Page 22: ... of disk failures and other events that require immediate attention Maintaining Storage Configurations You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to perform system maintenance tasks such as running consistency checks on arrays that support redundancy 4 2 Hardware and Software Requirements The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as fol lows PC compatible computer with...

Page 23: ...ger software on a system running Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP Installation Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the CD 1 ROM drive If necessary find and double click the setup exe file to start the installation program When the Welcome screen appears click Next If MegaRAID Storage Man 2 ager software is already installed on...

Page 24: ...r Administrator the MegaRAID Stor age Manager shortcuts and associated icons will be available only to the user with this user name Click 5 Next to continue On the next screen accept the default Destination Folder or click 6 Change to select a different destination folder Click Next to continue The Setup Type screen appears Select one of the Setup options The options are fully explained in the scr...

Page 25: ...agement Select StandAlone if you will use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to create and manage storage configurations on a standalone workstation Click Next to proceed 8 Click Install to install the program 9 Click Finish when the final Configuration Wizard screen appears 10 If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered...

Page 26: ...Untar the SSM_linux_installer tar gz file using the following command 2 tar zxvf SSM_linux_installer tar gz A new disk directory is created Go to the new disk directory 3 In the disk directory find and read the readme txt file 4 To start the installation enter the following command 5 install sh If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers...

Page 27: ...es the user must uninstall all the rpm files manually before installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software with the procedure listed previously The version is already installed This message indicates that the version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software you are trying to install is already installed on the system The installed version is newer This message indicates that a version of MegaRAID Stora...

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Page 29: ...ftware on a Microsoft Windows system select Start Programs MegaRAID Storage Manager StartupUI or double click the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop Note If a warning appears stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some fea tures of the program click Unblock to allow MegaRAID Storage Manager software to start The Windows Firewall sometimes blocks the operation of programs that use ...

Page 30: ...iguration in the server has failed Note To access servers on a different subnet type in the box at the bottom of the screen the IP address of a server in the desired subnet where MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running and click Update If you check the Connect to remote Framework box you can also access a standalone installation of MegaRAID Stor age Manager software if it has a network connec...

Page 31: ...on Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the configuration 4 Enter your user name and password and click Login Note If the computer is networked this is the login to the computer itself not the network login You must enter the root administrator user name and password to use Full Access mode If your user name and password are correct for the Login mode you have chosen the main Mega...

Page 32: ...el of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays either the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the devices in it depending on which tab is selected The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system At the top of the hierarchy is the system itself One or more controllers are installed in the system Each controller has one or more ports Disk drives and other ...

Page 33: ...Storage Manager window has either two or three tabs depending on what kind of device is selected in the left panel The Properties tab displays information about the selected device For example if a controller icon is selected in the left panel the Properties tab lists information such as the controller name and the device port count The Operations tab lists the operations that can be performed on ...

Page 34: ... a controller physical drive or logical drive is selected in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window The Operations menu options vary depending on what type of device is selected in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window The options also vary depending on the current state of the selected device For example if you select an offline physical drive the Make Drive Online option appears in ...

Page 35: ...elp menu you can select Help Help to view the MegaRAID Storage Man ager software online help file You can select Help About to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software Note When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software online help you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content If this warning appears click on ...

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Page 37: ...uld cause unpredictable be havior decreased performance an increased error count and decreased MTBF Note You cannot create or modify a storage configuration unless you are logged on with administrator privileges 6 1 Creating a New Storage Configuration You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager Configuration Wizard to create new storage configurations To open the MegaRAID Storage Manager Configurati...

Page 38: ...drives Manual Configuration gives you the greatest level of control in creating a new virtual disk Guided Configuration asks you a few simple questions about what kind of configuration you want and then automatically creates it from the available disk drives Note You can use Auto Guided or Manual mode to create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration To create a RAID 10 configuration you must use the Man...

Page 39: ... their default settings Stripe Size A stripe size of 64 Kbytes is supported Disk Cache Policy Select a cache setting for this disk Unchanged Enabled or Disabled Init State No Initialization The new configuration is not initialized and the existing data on the disks is not overwritten Fast Initialization MegaRAID Storage Manager software quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 8 Mbyte regions o...

Page 40: ...2 Auto Configuration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Auto Configuration mode Creating a New Storage Configuration Select a redundancy option from the drop down menu at the bottom of the 1 Auto Configuration window No Redundancy The new configuration will have no data redundancy RAID 0 If a physical disk in the configuration fails all data will be lost With Redund...

Page 41: ...Click 3 Modify if you want to switch to Manual Configuration mode so you can modify the suggested Auto Configuration When you click Modify the Virtual Disk Creation screen appears Select the new virtual disk and click Reclaim Then select the new array from the Ar rays with Free Space list and change the virtual disk parameters as needed Click 4 Finish The new storage configuration will be created ...

Page 42: ...nfiguration only if redundancy RAID 1 or RAID 5 is possible Redundancy when possible Create a redundant configuration if possible Otherwise create a non redundant configuration No Redundancy Create a non redundant configuration Choose whether you want to use existing arrays in the new virtual disk The 2 options are Use Existing Arrays Only Don t Use Existing Arrays Use Existing and New Arrays The ...

Page 43: ...tion Screen Change the default volume parameters in this window if needed In the top 5 section of the window you can specify the number of virtual disks to create You can also choose to use less than the full capacity of this array for the virtual disk s You could do this to leave capacity available for other virtual disks that you create later Click Next to continue to the next window 6 Check the...

Page 44: ... panel Note MegaRAID Storage Manager software will not allow you to select the disk drive on which the operating system is installed or any other drives that are already part of a configuration Click Accept to accept these drives for the new RAID 0 array 2 Note To remove a single drive from a proposed new array select the drive icon in the right panel and click the Left Arrow button Click Next 3 T...

Page 45: ...er Virtual Disk Properties if necessary 7 Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk 8 Note Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined Click Next to continue with the next configuration step The Virtual Disk Sum 9 mary window appears Review the configuration shown in the Virtual Disk Summary window If you 10 want to change something clic...

Page 46: ...l Configuration window shown in Figure 6 5 select two avail able drives in the left panel Click the Right Arrow button to move the selected drives to the right panel Note MegaRAID Storage Manager software will not allow you to select the disk drive on which the operating system is installed or any other drives that are already part of a configuration 2 Click Accept to accept these drives for the n...

Page 47: ...n the right panel select RAID 1 as the RAID level 8 Optional Set Size in MB to a lower number if you do not want to use the entire available capacity for the new virtual disk 9 Optional Change the other Virtual Disk Properties if necessary 10 Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk Note Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined 11 Cl...

Page 48: ... proposed new array select the drive icon in the right panel and click the Left Arrow button Click 3 Next The next Configuration Wizard window appears The Arrays with Free Space menu lists the new array that you just defined plus any existing arrays with holes free space that could be used for a new configuration From the 4 Arrays with Free Space menu select the array to use for the new virtual di...

Page 49: ...elect two more drives for a second RAID 1 array and click Accept 3 To add a hotspare select an available drive in the left panel Select the array 4 from the drop down menu and click Add Hotspare To as shown in Figure 6 7 To remove a hotspare from an array select it in the right panel and click 5 Remove HotSpare Click Next 6 The next Configuration Wizard window appears as shown in Figure 6 6 The Ar...

Page 50: ...tion mode of the Configuration Wizard Creating a RAID 50 Storage Configuration In the first 1 Manual Configuration window shown in Figure 6 5 select two available drives in the left panel Click the Right Arrow button to move the selected drives to the right panel Click 2 Accept to accept these drives for a new RAID 5 array Select two more drives for a second RAID 5 array and click 3 Accept To add ...

Page 51: ...ssary For more information see Section Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters 6 2 Adding Hotspare Disks Hotspares are disk drives that are available to automatically replace failed drives in a RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 and RAID 60 virtual disk Each virtual disk can have one dedicated hotspare For more information see the LSI documentation and software Help file for more information Addin...

Page 52: ...e so you can restore them later if necessary Rebuild Rate ____________ Background Initialization BGI Rate ____________ Check Consistency Rate ____________ 1 Select the Physical View tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select a controller icon 2 In the right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window select the Opera tions tab and select Set Adjustable Task Rates The ...

Page 53: ...Note Only the Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead functions are supported in Embedded MegaRAID Software 4 Click Go to accept the changes 6 5 Deleting a Virtual Disk Caution Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you delete it Be sure that the operating system is not installed on this virtual disk You can delete virtual disks to rearrange the storage space To delete a virtual disk follo...

Page 54: ...e Add New Configuration option to add a new storage configuration while keeping the existing configuration Alternatively you can clear the existing storage configuration from a controller and then create a totally new configuration or load a previously saved configurationfile Caution Before you clear a configuration be sure to save any data that you want to keep Clearing a configuration deletes al...

Page 55: ...nd size of the physical disks connected to the controller are exactly the same as when the configuration was saved Adding a Saved Configuration Select a controller icon in the left panel of the 1 MegaRAID Storage Manager window On the menu bar select 2 Operations Advanced Operations Configuration Add Saved Configuration A Warning message appears Click 3 Yes When the Open dialog box appears select ...

Page 56: ...er form be reasonably expected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage Accordingly Supermicro disclaims any and all liability and should buyer use or sell such products for use in such ultra hazardous applications it does so entirely at its own risk Furthermore buyer agrees to fully indemnify defend and hold Supermicro harmless for and against any and all cl...

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