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Publication number: 100766305, Rev. B, July 2015

Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications

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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 measurement and report
a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file
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Revision History

Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 

1.

This device may not cause harmful interference, and

2.

This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable 
protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance 
with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this 
equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the 
interference by one or more of the following measures:

·

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

·

Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver.

·

Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

·

Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Shielded cables for SCSI connection external to the cabinet are used in the compliance testing of this Product. Seagate is not responsible for any radio or television interference caused 
by unauthorized modification of this equipment or the substitution or attachment of connecting cables and equipment other than those specified by Seagate Technology LLC. The 
correction of interferences caused by such unauthorized modification, substitution, or attachment will be the responsibility of the user.

The Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Card is tested to comply with FCC standards for home or office use.

This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B respecte toutes les exigences du Règlement sur le matériel brouilleur du Canada.

This is a Class B product based on the standard of the Voluntary Control Council for Interference from Information Technology Equipment (VCCI). If this is used near a radio or television 
receiver in a domestic environment, it may cause radio interference. Install and use the equipment according to the instruction guide.

Version and Date

Description of Changes

Rev. B, July 2015

Changed the following sections:

Section 1.1, Overview

, added information for 4-TB products.

Section 2.3.2.4.1, Installing UEK Oracle Linux 6 on a Nytro XP6500 Disk

, added UEK to the section title.

Section 2.3.2.6, VMware ESXi5.1

, removed ESXi 5.5 from the section title.

Section 2.4.1, BIOS and System Configuration

, removed invalid link.

Section 3.1.4, Thermal Considerations

, changed “Operating altitude” to “Maximum operating altitude.”

Section 3.1.4.1, Maximum Sensor Temperature

, replaced “The maximum sensor temperature for the Nytro 

XP6500 cards is 76 °C” with “The maximum sensor temperature for the Flash modules on the Nytro XP6500 
cards is 76 °C.”

Rev. A, June 2015

First release of the document.

Содержание Nytro XP6500-8A1536

Страница 1: ...Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Nytro XP6500 8A1536 Nytro XP6500 8A4096 100766305 Rev B July 2015...

Страница 2: ...se harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio o...

Страница 3: ...3 2 4 Installing a Linux Operating System on a Nytro XP6500 Virtual Disk 10 2 3 2 5 Build Driver for Mainline Kernels 2 6 38 and Later Kernels 17 2 3 2 6 VMware ESXi5 1 17 2 4 Performance Tuning Guid...

Страница 4: ...able services include Presales Technical support Global Support Services telephone numbers business hours Authorized Service Centers For information regarding Warranty Support visit http www seagate c...

Страница 5: ...to DRAM and forward mechanism The Nytro XP6500 card includes a virtual drive VD with Write Back no read ahead and direct IO policy RAID 0 with Write Back mode and Write Through mode is supported with...

Страница 6: ...DRAM content during power failure if DDR3 Write Back is enabled 2 GB DRAM Cache offload support onto an on board Open NAND Flash Interface ONFi Secure Erase protects the Nytro card from unauthorized a...

Страница 7: ...e solely responsible for choosing and qualifying their own server and rack shipping solution Seagate does not qualify the server and rack shipping solution and is not responsible for such solution or...

Страница 8: ...ro XP6500 NOTE Your card shape size and component locations might vary from this drawing CAUTION For highest performance make sure that the PCIe slot is PCIe 3 0 and make sure that it has an active wi...

Страница 9: ...to install the driver 2 3 2 Linux Driver Installation Seagate provides Linux drivers as binary and as source code Precompiled binaries to add to an existing installation using driver update disks or...

Страница 10: ...a USB drive 1 Using the extracted files from the zip file from Section 2 3 2 1 Downloading the Drivers extract the driver ISO from DUD file using the following command gunzip nytrolin version _ os tag...

Страница 11: ...he SCSI device named SEAGATE XP6500 6 Partition the boot device as shown in the figures below You can create additional partitions as needed The figures below show device selection for RHEL 7 0 RHEL 6...

Страница 12: ...Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Rev B 12 www seagate com Software Installation Instructions Figure 2 Device Selection for RHEL 7 0...

Страница 13: ...Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Rev B 13 www seagate com Software Installation Instructions Figure 3 Manual Partitioning for RHEL 7 0...

Страница 14: ...Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Rev B 14 www seagate com Software Installation Instructions Figure 4 Selecting Installation Devices for RHEL 6 0...

Страница 15: ...Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Rev B 15 www seagate com Software Installation Instructions Figure 5 Partitioning Example for RHEL 6 0...

Страница 16: ...Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide Rev B 16 www seagate com Software Installation Instructions Figure 6 Selecting the Installation Disk for SuSE 11 Figure 7 Preparing the Hard Disk for S...

Страница 17: ...rivers 4 Install the RHEL 6 5 source rpm The RHEL 6 5 source rpm filename is rpm ivh nytrolin version _rhel6 5 1 src rpm 5 The sources are installed at rpmbuild cd rpmbuild SPECS rpmbuild bp target x8...

Страница 18: ...Edge_servers_for_low _latency_12132010_final pdf 2 4 2 Linux System Configuration 1 Run the following command to set execute permissions for the nytro set affinity script chmod x etc init d nytrolin_s...

Страница 19: ...in the Status field on the main Adapter List menu The new setting takes effect when the BIOS reloads when you reboot the system Selecting Disabled prevents the user from booting from the card but in a...

Страница 20: ...s on its internal processor The Nytro XP6500 card can be used for either persistent or nonpersistent data and offers high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden The following figure shows t...

Страница 21: ...warning Card has approximately 20 or less of life remaining for programming and erasing Flash memory Plan to replace Other component issues Run the show all and health commands in the command line in...

Страница 22: ...C to 45 C Relative humidity range 5 to 90 noncondensing Maximum wet bulb temperature 28 C Minimum airflow 550 LFM Maximum operating altitude 3000 m De rate 2 C per 1000 m above 1000 m The board is de...

Страница 23: ...UL flammability rating 94V 0 Each bare board is marked with the supplier s name or trademark type and UL flammability rating Because these boards are installed in a PCIe bus slot all voltages are bel...

Страница 24: ...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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