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Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide, Rev. B

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Nytro XP6500 Card Characteristics

Figure 10  Nytro XP6500 Card LED Diagram

The following table shows LED Descriptions:

If you experience a problem with your Nytro XP6500 card that you cannot resolve, report it to your FAE or, if you 
obtained the product from an OEM, report it to the OEM. Keep these tips in mind when reporting a problem:

Clearly identify and report the part number listed on the label, and clearly identify the board revision.

Describe the steps leading up to the error.

Report the operating system version and the host driver version.

Table 2  Status Indicators on a Running System

Name

Color

LED Description

Activity

Green

On, steady

 – LED stays steady green when there is no activity. This LED blinks off during drive activity. 

Life/Status

Green

On, steady 

– Normal. The card has sufficient life remaining for programming and erasing the Flash

memory. No action is required.

Amber

On, steady 

– Warning. At least one Flash drive is reporting a high temperature 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 interface to 

determine which component has an issue.

Red

On, blinking

 – Firmware code issue:

Run the command line interface utility to determine which component has an issue.

If no information appears, power cycle the system and retry.

If no information appears, contact 

Seagate Technology Support Services

.

On, steady 

– One of the following conditions applies:

Card has 10% of life remaining. Backup and copy data into a new card immediately.

Either the SuperCap is missing or is in warning.

One or more of the flash modules has failed.

At least one of the flash modules has reported critical temperature.

Back-up power rail monitor failure detected.

Other component issues:

 Run the 

show all 

and show 

health

 commands in the command line interface to 

determine which component has an issue. Refer to 

Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards Software User 

Guide

 for the precise commands to use here. 

CAUTION 

If the critical temperature warning persists, you might damage your card. Increase cooling speed or shut 

down your system to prevent damaging the card.

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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...

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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...

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