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... System that Boots from a Different Device 56 Driver Installation Under VMware ESX 3.x Server 57 www.3ware.com iii Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller 18 Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 22 Basic Steps for Creating a Unit 22 Specifying...System Requirements 2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 5 RAID Concepts 5 Available RAID Configurations 6 Determining What RAID Level to Use 12 Using Drive Capacity Efficiently 13 Support for Over 2 Terabytes 14 3ware Tools for Linux 52 Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 53 Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers 53 ...
... System that Boots from a Different Device 56 Driver Installation Under VMware ESX 3.x Server 57 www.3ware.com iii Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller 18 Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 22 Basic Steps for Creating a Unit 22 Specifying...System Requirements 2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels 5 RAID Concepts 5 Available RAID Configurations 6 Determining What RAID Level to Use 12 Using Drive Capacity Efficiently 13 Support for Over 2 Terabytes 14 3ware Tools for Linux 52 Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 53 Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers 53 ...
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...bit x86 • Other versions of any capacity or physical form factor. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller A list of drives that provide SCSI Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2). For 9650SE controllers, enclosure support is limited to 4 enclosures based on the same expander. Enclosures may not...SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure). Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may be of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open source Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver • FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • VMware ESX 3.x Server For the latest driver versions ...
...bit x86 • Other versions of any capacity or physical form factor. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller A list of drives that provide SCSI Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2). For 9650SE controllers, enclosure support is limited to 4 enclosures based on the same expander. Enclosures may not...SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure). Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may be of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open source Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver • FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • VMware ESX 3.x Server For the latest driver versions ...
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...ESX 3.x Server" on page 180. Driver information is already installed on a unit connected to another controller or to a newer version, see "Updating the Firmware and Driver" on page 57 Note: If you are described in this chapter. 4 Driver Installation This chapter provides details about how to install the driver for your 3ware RAID controller... and make the units available to your operating system. • If the unit you have created will be your system's boot device, you install the driver for your 3ware RAID controller to the motherboard, you...
...ESX 3.x Server" on page 180. Driver information is already installed on a unit connected to another controller or to a newer version, see "Updating the Firmware and Driver" on page 57 Note: If you are described in this chapter. 4 Driver Installation This chapter provides details about how to install the driver for your 3ware RAID controller... and make the units available to your operating system. • If the unit you have created will be your system's boot device, you install the driver for your 3ware RAID controller to the motherboard, you...
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... details about how to install the driver for the controller. 2 Use 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) to create one or more RAID units on the 3ware RAID controller. Instructions are available in the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5, under VMware ESX Server 3.x and make the RAID units available to the 3ware VMware 3.02 or 3.5 driver CD. It is managed...
... details about how to install the driver for the controller. 2 Use 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) to create one or more RAID units on the 3ware RAID controller. Instructions are available in the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5, under VMware ESX Server 3.x and make the RAID units available to the 3ware VMware 3.02 or 3.5 driver CD. It is managed...
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... loaded" screen, insert the applicable VMware ESX Server 3.x installation CD and press Enter to continue the installation. 8 After you have finished your 3ware RAID controller will be for the controller. 2 Log onto VMware ESX Server 3.x as root. 3 Insert the 3ware applicable VMware driver CD into the CD-...CD-ROM may be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 1 Install your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller Use this case, use the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom 5 Navigate to /dev/hdc by your VMware ESX Server 3.x installation, reboot the server and...
... loaded" screen, insert the applicable VMware ESX Server 3.x installation CD and press Enter to continue the installation. 8 After you have finished your 3ware RAID controller will be for the controller. 2 Log onto VMware ESX Server 3.x as root. 3 Insert the 3ware applicable VMware driver CD into the CD-...CD-ROM may be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 1 Install your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller Use this case, use the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom 5 Navigate to /dev/hdc by your VMware ESX Server 3.x installation, reboot the server and...
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...the driver, you can now create one of the following commands: esxupdate -l query The driver package should be mentioned in the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5, under "Configuring Units" on page 85. Instructions are available in the resulting message. vmkload_mod -l... The driver should be listed as one of the loaded modules. www.3ware.com 59 Driver Installation Under VMware ESX 3.x Server 8 Unmount the CD. cd ...
...the driver, you can now create one of the following commands: esxupdate -l query The driver package should be mentioned in the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5, under "Configuring Units" on page 85. Instructions are available in the resulting message. vmkload_mod -l... The driver should be listed as one of the loaded modules. www.3ware.com 59 Driver Installation Under VMware ESX 3.x Server 8 Unmount the CD. cd ...
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...VMware" on card that is written to uninstall the present driver. The 9690SA uses BBU-Module-04. Maintaining Your Controller Updating 3ware Drivers under VMware Driver updates for the 3ware RAID controller will be available from a battery pack in case you need to the disks. When power is restored, the ... write-caching for optimal performance and to 72 hours. You can be attached to most 3ware 9000 RAID controllers to supply power from 3ware as RPMs. The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under VMware. Note: If you will first need to revert back to it. ...
...VMware" on card that is written to uninstall the present driver. The 9690SA uses BBU-Module-04. Maintaining Your Controller Updating 3ware Drivers under VMware Driver updates for the 3ware RAID controller will be available from a battery pack in case you need to the disks. When power is restored, the ... write-caching for optimal performance and to 72 hours. You can be attached to most 3ware 9000 RAID controllers to supply power from 3ware as RPMs. The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under VMware. Note: If you will first need to revert back to it. ...
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... Installation To manually install CLI under FreeBSD 5.x For instructions for manually installing 3DM, see the knowledgebase article http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15283 Installing Software for VMware VMware ESX Server 3.5 does not have a GUI in its default configuration and therefore you cannot access 3DM 2 locally. You ... /mnt/cdrom/VMupdates/RPMS/ 3 Run the install commands for example, https://10.0.0.2:888), as it will be done remotely through a web browser. 332 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 The path will be required in a console window.
... Installation To manually install CLI under FreeBSD 5.x For instructions for manually installing 3DM, see the knowledgebase article http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15283 Installing Software for VMware VMware ESX Server 3.5 does not have a GUI in its default configuration and therefore you cannot access 3DM 2 locally. You ... /mnt/cdrom/VMupdates/RPMS/ 3 Run the install commands for example, https://10.0.0.2:888), as it will be done remotely through a web browser. 332 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 The path will be required in a console window.
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... 52 current version, determining 179 downloading 181 installation overview 32 installation under FreeBSD 53 installation under Linux 42 installation under VMware ESX 3.x 57 installation under Windows 33 installation utility for Windows 36 updating FreeBSD 200 Red Hat 195 SuSE 197 Windows 189 driver... requirements 4 Enclosure Services, defined 17 LED status indicators 149 locating a component (fan, temperature sensor, power supply) 211 managing through 3ware software 206 summary information 243 viewing a list of 207 errors 154 error correction 17 error log, downloading 157 error messages 258 how ...
... 52 current version, determining 179 downloading 181 installation overview 32 installation under FreeBSD 53 installation under Linux 42 installation under VMware ESX 3.x 57 installation under Windows 33 installation utility for Windows 36 updating FreeBSD 200 Red Hat 195 SuSE 197 Windows 189 driver... requirements 4 Enclosure Services, defined 17 LED status indicators 149 locating a component (fan, temperature sensor, power supply) 211 managing through 3ware software 206 summary information 243 viewing a list of 207 errors 154 error correction 17 error log, downloading 157 error messages 258 how ...