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MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e RAID Controller Quick Installation Guide
March 2014
Product Overview
MegaRAID® SAS 9285CV-8e RAID Controller Quick Installation
Guide
Thank you for purchasing the MegaRAID®
SAS 9285CV-8e 6Gb/s RAID controller. Your MegaRAID controller provides
reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant drive subsystem management.
Before you install your RAID controller, please take a few minutes to read this quick installation guide. This guide
documents how to install the RAID controller, and connect a transportable CacheVault® Flash Module 03 (CVFM03) to
a remote CacheVault Power Module 02 (CVPM02). In addition, this guide documents the connectors and headers on
the RAID controller, the CacheVault Flash Module 03, and the CacheVault Power Module 02, which provide backup for
your data in case of power loss.
If you need more information about any topic covered in this guide, refer to the related documents on your
MegaRAID
Universal Software Suite
CD.
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Product Overview
The MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e RAID controller is a SAS2208-based low-profile PCI Express® (PCIe®) RAID controller
that offers a 6Gb/s transfer rate. It controls eight external SAS/SATA ports through two SFF-8088 x4 external mini
SAS connectors.
The MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e RAID controller supports the CVFM03 module, which is an on-board 1-GB nonvolatile
DDR3 1333-MT/s CacheVault Flash Module. The CVFM03 module connects to a remote CVPM02 module.
The following figure shows the MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e RAID controller. (The CVFM03 module is not attached in this
figure, so that all of the connectors on the RAID controller are visible. Other figures in this guide show the CVFM03
module attached to the controller.)
Figure 1 MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e RAID Controller
