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Installing the driver when your primary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 57 Installing the driver when your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 58 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction 60 Starting 3BM 60 Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility 62 ...the Listening Port 84 Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes 85 Configuring Your Controller 86 Viewing Information About a Controller 86 About Controller Policies 88 Viewing Controller Policies 90 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy 91 Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support 92 Setting the Size...
Installing the driver when your primary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 57 Installing the driver when your secondary storage will be managed by the 3ware RAID controller 58 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction 60 Starting 3BM 60 Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility 62 ...the Listening Port 84 Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes 85 Configuring Your Controller 86 Viewing Information About a Controller 86 About Controller Policies 88 Viewing Controller Policies 90 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy 91 Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support 92 Setting the Size...
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...Rebuilding 121 Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit 122 Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit 123 Rapid RAID Recovery 126 Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating 128 RAID Level Migration (RLM) Overview 128 Changing RAID...Controller . . 139 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 141 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 142 Adding a Drive 142 Removing a Drive 143 Rescanning the Controller...a Verify Manually 165 Rebuilding Units 167 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with...On or Off Use of a Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule 175 Selecting Advanced...
...Rebuilding 121 Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit 122 Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit 123 Rapid RAID Recovery 126 Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating 128 RAID Level Migration (RLM) Overview 128 Changing RAID...Controller . . 139 Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller 141 Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller 142 Adding a Drive 142 Removing a Drive 143 Rescanning the Controller...a Verify Manually 165 Rebuilding Units 167 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with...On or Off Use of a Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule 175 Selecting Advanced...
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..., move units from one controller to update the driver and firmware. Managing an Enclosure 12. 3DM 2 Reference 13. Troubleshooting A. Provides step-by blinking an associated LED. Describes the basics of initialization, verify, rebuild, and self-tests. Describes... Describes the basics of the process you have just installed the controller. Describes how to get started using 3DM. Compliance and Conformity Statements Description Provides a summary of using your 3ware RAID controller. Getting Started 3. Configuring Units 9. Software Installation C. Includes definitions ...
..., move units from one controller to update the driver and firmware. Managing an Enclosure 12. 3DM 2 Reference 13. Troubleshooting A. Provides step-by blinking an associated LED. Describes the basics of initialization, verify, rebuild, and self-tests. Describes... Describes the basics of the process you have just installed the controller. Describes how to get started using 3DM. Compliance and Conformity Statements Description Provides a summary of using your 3ware RAID controller. Getting Started 3. Configuring Units 9. Software Installation C. Includes definitions ...
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..., AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. It can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. This section introduces the features and concepts of AMCC 3ware RAID controllers. www.3ware.com 1 AMCC's RAID controllers offer Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA)...help insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis. • Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to servers and workstations. 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to help trouble-...
..., AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. It can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. This section introduces the features and concepts of AMCC 3ware RAID controllers. www.3ware.com 1 AMCC's RAID controllers offer Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA)...help insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis. • Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to servers and workstations. 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to help trouble-...
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...storage efficiency also increase as the number of five drives. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller RAID 5 is able to the two parities, a RAID 6 unit can be degraded, while another is similar to RAID 5, but has two blocks of parity information (P+Q) distributed across all...For example, one sub-unit may be in the unit. RAID 5 Configuration Example RAID 6 RAID 6 requires a 3ware 9650SE or 9690SA RAID controller. This also means that a RAID 6 unit may be initializing, while another may be rebuilding, or one sub-unit can tolerate two hard drives failing simultaneously...
...storage efficiency also increase as the number of five drives. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller RAID 5 is able to the two parities, a RAID 6 unit can be degraded, while another is similar to RAID 5, but has two blocks of parity information (P+Q) distributed across all...For example, one sub-unit may be in the unit. RAID 5 Configuration Example RAID 6 RAID 6 requires a 3ware 9650SE or 9690SA RAID controller. This also means that a RAID 6 unit may be initializing, while another may be rebuilding, or one sub-unit can tolerate two hard drives failing simultaneously...
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... is referred to interchangeably as a RAID unit and the type of the controller and associated drives. It can be used locally (on the system that should be used together as 3DM and 3DM 2. • 3ware Alert Utility (WinAVAlarm) The 3ware Alert Utility for creating, deleting, and maintaining disk arrays, rebuilding arrays, designating hot spares, and...
... is referred to interchangeably as a RAID unit and the type of the controller and associated drives. It can be used locally (on the system that should be used together as 3DM and 3DM 2. • 3ware Alert Utility (WinAVAlarm) The 3ware Alert Utility for creating, deleting, and maintaining disk arrays, rebuilding arrays, designating hot spares, and...
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...single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. This allows the system to process multiple write commands at which component needs to be dynamically repaired through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). Drives, fans, temperature sensors, and power supplies in 3ware controller cache and drive cache before... or replaced. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the data stored on the 3ware controller can all redundant units, and checks for media errors on page 206. • Auto Rebuild. For times when you to reallocate the error sectors accordingly. (For more information, see ...
...single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. This allows the system to process multiple write commands at which component needs to be dynamically repaired through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). Drives, fans, temperature sensors, and power supplies in 3ware controller cache and drive cache before... or replaced. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the data stored on the 3ware controller can all redundant units, and checks for media errors on page 206. • Auto Rebuild. For times when you to reallocate the error sectors accordingly. (For more information, see ...
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... want to -day performance during peak usage times. (Background tasks include rebuild, verify, initialize, migrate, and self-test.) Details about configuration is already installed on page 181. installation in the later chapters of this documentation. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of write cache, use 3DM or the CLI...
... want to -day performance during peak usage times. (Background tasks include rebuild, verify, initialize, migrate, and self-test.) Details about configuration is already installed on page 181. installation in the later chapters of this documentation. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of write cache, use 3DM or the CLI...
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...Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Initial Settings for Policies and Background Tasks The table below lists the default settings for Policies and Background Tasks Policy Default Value Where to Change Controller-Level Settings (For details, see "Configuring Your Controller" on page 86 Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Auto-...Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Enabled Enabled Enabled Friday, 12 am Seven days of the week, starting at 12 am and running 24 hours. 2048 GB 1 6 seconds No ATA-6 Enabled 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM...
...Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Initial Settings for Policies and Background Tasks The table below lists the default settings for Policies and Background Tasks Policy Default Value Where to Change Controller-Level Settings (For details, see "Configuring Your Controller" on page 86 Auto-Rebuild Auto-Carving Auto-...Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Enabled Enabled Enabled Friday, 12 am Seven days of the week, starting at 12 am and running 24 hours. 2048 GB 1 6 seconds No ATA-6 Enabled 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM...
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...details, see "Scheduling Background Tasks" on page 172) Verify Task Schedules Basic - Basic schedule 3DM, 3BM, CLI Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedules Daily, starting at 12:00 am 3DM, CLI and running for 24 hours Follow Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule Self-test Task Schedulesa Ignore 3DM, CLI Daily, starting at... 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Follow Self-test Task Yes Schedule 3DM, CLI a. www.3ware.com 21 Daily, starting at the beginning of ...
...details, see "Scheduling Background Tasks" on page 172) Verify Task Schedules Basic - Basic schedule 3DM, 3BM, CLI Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedules Daily, starting at 12:00 am 3DM, CLI and running for 24 hours Follow Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule Self-test Task Schedulesa Ignore 3DM, CLI Daily, starting at... 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Follow Self-test Task Yes Schedule 3DM, CLI a. www.3ware.com 21 Daily, starting at the beginning of ...
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...a Unit" on page 122 • "Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit" on page 123 • "Setting Overwrite ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding)" on page 121 • "Enabling or Disabling Auto Verify for the unit While creating a unit through 3BM, you want to change. 2 Press Enter to ...be used as a separate volume. 26 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 For details about these policies is useful if you will be installing your operating system onto the unit and want...
...a Unit" on page 122 • "Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit" on page 123 • "Setting Overwrite ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding)" on page 121 • "Enabling or Disabling Auto Verify for the unit While creating a unit through 3BM, you want to change. 2 Press Enter to ...be used as a separate volume. 26 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 For details about these policies is useful if you will be installing your operating system onto the unit and want...
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For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see four at first (only four can be processed at a time). Note: If you have a combination of the BIOS installed, they will also ... will appear for the 7000/ 8000-series. Starting 3BM 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to continue. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will launch different versions of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that controller appears. If 3BM detects a degraded array, a red message box appears, to alert you want to your system, the 7000/8000-series...
For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see four at first (only four can be processed at a time). Note: If you have a combination of the BIOS installed, they will also ... will appear for the 7000/ 8000-series. Starting 3BM 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to continue. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will launch different versions of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that controller appears. If 3BM detects a degraded array, a red message box appears, to alert you want to your system, the 7000/8000-series...
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...3BM screen: • Available Drives lists any unconfigured drives that will see "Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy" on page 91. Enclosure lists the drives attached through an enclosure. • Exportable.... If this list. For example, a RAID 5 unit with an array, and hot spares. Direct Attached lists the drives directly attached to the controller. These are the units that are not associated...(Figure 29) shows the current configuration for the drives attached to your computer. www.3ware.com 63 Unusable and incomplete drives are also shown. Figure 29. 3BM Main Display You...
...3BM screen: • Available Drives lists any unconfigured drives that will see "Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy" on page 91. Enclosure lists the drives attached through an enclosure. • Exportable.... If this list. For example, a RAID 5 unit with an array, and hot spares. Direct Attached lists the drives directly attached to the controller. These are the units that are not associated...(Figure 29) shows the current configuration for the drives attached to your computer. www.3ware.com 63 Unusable and incomplete drives are also shown. Figure 29. 3BM Main Display You...
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... settings (background task rate, unit polices such as enabling of unit write cache, and controller settings that affect all units managed by the controller), tasks that can also be scheduled (rebuild, verify, and self-test), and maintenance of individual units. Working with the 3DM Screens The ..., page refresh frequency, whether remote access is contextsensitive, so you first see information about the page you access information about each. www.3ware.com 77 The Alarms page shows a list of Contents and Index are available to the Alarms page, the BBU page, and the Enclosure...
... settings (background task rate, unit polices such as enabling of unit write cache, and controller settings that affect all units managed by the controller), tasks that can also be scheduled (rebuild, verify, and self-test), and maintenance of individual units. Working with the 3DM Screens The ..., page refresh frequency, whether remote access is contextsensitive, so you first see information about the page you access information about each. www.3ware.com 77 The Alarms page shows a list of Contents and Index are available to the Alarms page, the BBU page, and the Enclosure...
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... you can be changed include background task rate, Auto Rebuild, Auto-Carving, and Carve Size. To view this page, choose Monitor > Battery Backup on the current controller and change the schedule for 9690SA RAID controllers. Unit-level settings include specifying the StorSave Profile and enabling...for Number of those settings. Lets you view and change some of Controller Phys. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction Table 8: List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Controller Phy Summary page Controller Settings page Scheduling page Maintenance page Alarms page Battery Backup page Enclosure ...
... you can be changed include background task rate, Auto Rebuild, Auto-Carving, and Carve Size. To view this page, choose Monitor > Battery Backup on the current controller and change the schedule for 9690SA RAID controllers. Unit-level settings include specifying the StorSave Profile and enabling...for Number of those settings. Lets you view and change some of Controller Phys. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction Table 8: List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Controller Phy Summary page Controller Settings page Scheduling page Maintenance page Alarms page Battery Backup page Enclosure ...
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..., serial number, firmware and driver versions, and the status of each controller separately. The 3DM Unit Information page appears, listing all units on page 172. If you have more than one using 3DM. To see "Setting Background Task Rate" on a controller. The right-most column of the list shows the status of the 3ware RAID controller...
..., serial number, firmware and driver versions, and the status of each controller separately. The 3DM Unit Information page appears, listing all units on page 172. If you have more than one using 3DM. To see "Setting Background Task Rate" on a controller. The right-most column of the list shows the status of the 3ware RAID controller...
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... 37. When disabled, degraded units can be rebuilt with the 88 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Compatible drives are shown at power-up . Controller policies are sent a spin up of the Controller Settings page in 3DM (Figure 38) and on the settings specified ...state to sequence the spin-up command based on the Policy Control screen in 3BM (Figure 39). • Auto Rebuild. Controller Information page About Controller Policies The following policies affect all units and drives on a controller and can be addressed by the operating system as multi-LUN,...
... 37. When disabled, degraded units can be rebuilt with the 88 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Compatible drives are shown at power-up . Controller policies are sent a spin up of the Controller Settings page in 3DM (Figure 38) and on the settings specified ...state to sequence the spin-up command based on the Policy Control screen in 3BM (Figure 39). • Auto Rebuild. Controller Information page About Controller Policies The following policies affect all units and drives on a controller and can be addressed by the operating system as multi-LUN,...
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... the Controller Settings page (See Figure 38). Only the Auto Rebuild, Auto-Carving, and Carve Size policies can be changed on this page. The other policies can be changed in 3BM or through the CLI. Configuring Your Controller Viewing Controller Policies You...Controller Settings section at the bottom of the initial default settings, see Table 6, "Default Settings for Policies and Background Tasks," on page 20. The policies that appear under Other Controller Settings vary, depending on the controller model you are using. Figure 38. 3DM Controller Settings Page 90 3ware SAS/SATA RAID...
... the Controller Settings page (See Figure 38). Only the Auto Rebuild, Auto-Carving, and Carve Size policies can be changed on this page. The other policies can be changed in 3BM or through the CLI. Configuring Your Controller Viewing Controller Policies You...Controller Settings section at the bottom of the initial default settings, see Table 6, "Default Settings for Policies and Background Tasks," on page 20. The policies that appear under Other Controller Settings vary, depending on the controller model you are using. Figure 38. 3DM Controller Settings Page 90 3ware SAS/SATA RAID...
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... unconfigured (available) drive. • Smallest usable failed drive. www.3ware.com 91 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy To view controller polices in 3BM You can enable or disable the Auto-Rebuild policy through 3DM or 3BM. With Auto Rebuild enabled, if you to add a drive to rebuild degraded units. You can also view and change these...
... unconfigured (available) drive. • Smallest usable failed drive. www.3ware.com 91 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy To view controller polices in 3BM You can enable or disable the Auto-Rebuild policy through 3DM or 3BM. With Auto Rebuild enabled, if you to add a drive to rebuild degraded units. You can also view and change these...
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...(32-bit), and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in 3DM. 2 In the Other Controller Settings section at the operating system level. The page refreshes, and a message at the hardware level. A second use of auto-carving is to gain use of the full capacity of large arrays ...as multiple LUNs (logical units). Then, when you have made. If the unit is on page 103.) 92 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Configuring Your Controller To enable Auto Rebuild through 3BM 1 On the main 3BM screen, Tab to Settings and press Enter. 2 On the pop-up ...
...(32-bit), and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in 3DM. 2 In the Other Controller Settings section at the operating system level. The page refreshes, and a message at the hardware level. A second use of auto-carving is to gain use of the full capacity of large arrays ...as multiple LUNs (logical units). Then, when you have made. If the unit is on page 103.) 92 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Configuring Your Controller To enable Auto Rebuild through 3BM 1 On the main 3BM screen, Tab to Settings and press Enter. 2 On the pop-up ...