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UPER

LSI MegaRAID Software

Confi guration Utility for the

LSI 1068 Controller

USER’S MANUAL

Revision 1.0

Summary of Contents for LSI 1068

Page 1: ...SUPER LSI MegaRAID Software Configuration Utility for the LSI 1068 Controller USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0...

Page 2: ...ine without prior written consent IN NO EVENT WILL Super Micro Computer Inc BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL SPECULATIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO U...

Page 3: ...rovides an introduction to the LSI MegaRAID Software Utility settings It also details instructions on how to run the LSI MegaRAID Configuration Utility Conventions Used in the Manual Special attention...

Page 4: ...Europe 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 super...

Page 5: ...Preface Notes...

Page 6: ...Virtual Drives 2 2 2 4 Using New Configuration Settings to Configure a Selected Disk Drive 2 8 2 5 Using New Configuration Settings to Configure a Hotspare Drive 2 10 2 6 Selecting a Boot Drive 2 12 2...

Page 7: ...lding an Virtual Drive by Using the Rebuild Setting 2 26 2 10 Checking Data Consistency of a Disk Drive 2 27 Checking Data Consistency 2 27 2 11 Clearing a Storage Configuration 2 30 Table of Contents...

Page 8: ...Notes LSI MegaRAID Software Configuration User s Manual viii...

Page 9: ...eously written to multiple drives thus increases data integrity RAID 10 combining RAID 0 and RAID1 provides superb system performance and system security When used with an I Button the LSI MegaRAID Ut...

Page 10: ...system BIOS Support for Interrupt 13 and Enhanced Disk Drive Specification Support for Enable Disable BIOS Boot Support for Hot plug and Hot Auto Rebuild during a hot plug event and the physical driv...

Page 11: ...support Please refer to http www supermicro com products accessories ad don AOC IButton68 cfm for more information on the AOC Button68 IT Mode Initiator and Target Mode This is a Non RAID mode To use...

Page 12: ...malfunctioning or decreasing Mean Time Between Failures MTBF RAID 0 Striping RAID 0 provides disk striping across all disk drives in an array It does not provide data redundancy but it offers the bes...

Page 13: ...10 Example with 4 Disk Drives Striping Data Striping Across Drive A Drive B Drive A Drive B Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6 Segment 7 Segment 8 Mirroring Coping Data from...

Page 14: ...LSI MegaRAID Configuration for the LSI 1068 Controller User s Manual 1 6 Notes...

Page 15: ...S installation instructions please refer to our web site at www supermicro com For system stability please do not use both SAS and SATA drives in the same array 2 1 Using the LSI MegaRAID Configuratio...

Page 16: ...o configure arrays and logical drives as desired 2 3 Using Easy Configuration Settings to Configure Arrays and Virtual Drives Easy Configuration Settings allow you to check the properties of or assign...

Page 17: ...physical drives that are ready for configuration will be displayed Press 3 Spacebar to select the drive you wish to configure the RAID settings When the physical drive you wish to assign an array to i...

Page 18: ...Spacebar to select the 5 array setting number Once the right array number appears press F10 to configure it 6 Use the Up Down Arrow keys to highlight 7 Select RAID In the pop up dialogue box using th...

Page 19: ...To configure the selected drive as a hotspare drive press F4 The following 5 screen appears To Display Drive Information From the LSI MegaRAID main menu select Configuration and press Enter 1 Use the...

Page 20: ...Easy Configuration to Assign an Array Select Configure from the LSI MegaRAID Main screen 1 Select Easy Configuration from the Configuration menu and press Enter 2 When the screen showing the availabl...

Page 21: ...Configuring the LSI MegaRAID Settings 2 7 When the screen above displays press Spacebar to select the Array 5 number Once the right Array number appears press F10 to configure it 6...

Page 22: ...sk drive selected To configure a disk drive follow the steps below Select Configure from the LSI MegaRAID Main menu and press Enter to 1 use the New Configuration settings When a screen showing all dr...

Page 23: ...9 Press F10 to configure the array 5 Use the arrow keys to select the correct RAID level and press Enter 6 When the dialogue box as shown on the bottom appears using the arrow 7 keys highlight Accept...

Page 24: ...ID Main menu and press Enter to 1 use the New Configuration settings From the Configuration Menu select New Configuration and press Enter 2 The following screen will appear When prompted to confirm wh...

Page 25: ...as shown above When the drive you wish to configure as a hotspare drive is selected press 5 F4 and Enter The following screen will display When prompted to confirm whether you wish to configure a hot...

Page 26: ...2 12 2 6 Selecting a Boot Drive To select a disk drive as a boot drive following the steps below From the LSI MegaRAID Main menu select Configuration and press Enter 1 When Configuration Menu appears...

Page 27: ...Use the up down arrow keys to select the disk drive you wish to configure as 4 Boot Drive 0 and press Enter Repeat the step above to select your Boot Drive 1 as you wish 5 When you have completed Boo...

Page 28: ...ding RAID settings and reformat the disk From the LSI MegaRAID Main menu select Initialization and press En ter A pop up dialogue box displays indicating Initialization of Virtual Drives VD 7 as shown...

Page 29: ...RAID level and check the consistency of any disk drive You can use this feature to configure Global Hotspare drives as well To View and Display Virtual Disk Drives in the System Follow the steps belo...

Page 30: ...u as shown above select Initialize and 4 press Enter A popup dialogue box will appear to confirm whether you wish to initialize the virtual drive selected Warning Please be careful when you initialize...

Page 31: ...ect the disk drive you wish to check consistency with and press Enter The following screen will appear When the screen shown as above appears use the up down arrow keys to 3 select Check Consistency f...

Page 32: ...e bottom of Page 2 15 appears use the up 2 down arrow keys to select the virtual disk whose parameters you wish to view update and press Enter The following screen will appear Viewing the Parameters o...

Page 33: ...Virtual Drive When the parameters of a selected virtual drive appears use the up down 5 arrow keys to select Disk WC Write Cache and press Enter as shown above Notes Any changes to the Disk Write Cac...

Page 34: ...l drive be sure to back up all the data you intend to keep The LSI MegaRAID Software allows you to delete any virtual drive defined in the configuration settings Following the steps below to delete a...

Page 35: ...t Objects and press Enter 1 From the Objects submenu select Physical Drive and press Enter 2 A screen will appear to display all drives that are available in the system 3 Using the arrow keys select t...

Page 36: ...068 Controller User s Manual 2 22 A screen with a dialogue box will appear asking whether you wish to proceed 6 with Hotspare configuration Select Yes and press Enter to make Global Hotspare Select No...

Page 37: ...the LSI MegaRAID Main Menu select Objects and press Enter 1 When the Objects submenu appears select Physical Drive and press En 2 ter When the screen of all available Physical Drives appears as shown...

Page 38: ...s of a physical drive shown on the screen are for display only You cannot update or change the properties or pa rameters of a physical drive Viewing and Updating the Properties of an Adapter From the...

Page 39: ...er than or equal to the defined size of the array A rebuild will not be started if a failed drive s size is smaller than the defined size of the array Rebuilding a Physical Drive Follow the steps to r...

Page 40: ...al driving using the rebuild setting From the LSI Main Menu select Rebuild and press Enter 1 To view all virtual disk drives in the system press F3 A screen will appear 2 to show all the virtual drive...

Page 41: ...nsistency Follow the steps below to check data consistency between the source drive and the mirrored drive for RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays From the LSI Main Menu select Check Consistency and press Enter...

Page 42: ...ic showing the progress appears until it completes Note If data inconsistency is found during Check Consistency the LSI MegaRAID will automatically fix the error by writing the source data to the mirr...

Page 43: ...you press Esc while Check Consistency is running the following op tions will appear Stop Select stop to stop checking consistency for the time being allowing it to be automatically resumed at a later...

Page 44: ...ure Clearing a Storage Configuration Follow the steps below to clear a storage configuration From the LSI Main Menu select Configure and press Enter 1 From the Configuration submenu select Clear Confi...

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