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User Guide 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide Supports the 9650SE and 9690SA Models PN 720-0184-00 August 2008
User Guide 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide Supports the 9650SE and 9690SA Models PN 720-0184-00 August 2008
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... 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 Creating A FreeBSD Driver Diskette 54 Installing the Kernel Driver Module while Installing FreeBSD on a Unit Managed by a 3ware Controller...
... 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 Creating A FreeBSD Driver Diskette 54 Installing the Kernel Driver Module while Installing FreeBSD on a Unit Managed by a 3ware Controller...
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... 7. 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...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 of Volumes Created with...
... 7. 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...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 of Volumes Created with...
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...Locating a Specific Enclosure Component 211 Downloading an Enclosure Diagnostic Log 211 Chapter 12. 3DM 2 Reference 212 Controller Summary page 213 Controller Details page 214 Unit Information page 215 Unit Details page 217 Drive ...Support 251 Basic Troubleshooting: Check This First 251 Command Logging 252 Drive Performance Monitoring 253 Types of DPM Statistics 253 Available DPM Commands 253 Problems and Solutions 255 Enclosure-Related Problems 255 Hardware Installation Problems 255 Software Installation Problems 256 Problems in 3DM and 3BM 257 vi 3ware SAS/SATA RAID...
...Locating a Specific Enclosure Component 211 Downloading an Enclosure Diagnostic Log 211 Chapter 12. 3DM 2 Reference 212 Controller Summary page 213 Controller Details page 214 Unit Information page 215 Unit Details page 217 Drive ...Support 251 Basic Troubleshooting: Check This First 251 Command Logging 252 Drive Performance Monitoring 253 Types of DPM Statistics 253 Available DPM Commands 253 Problems and Solutions 255 Enclosure-Related Problems 255 Hardware Installation Problems 255 Software Installation Problems 256 Problems in 3DM and 3BM 257 vi 3ware SAS/SATA RAID...
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... VMware 332 Uninstalling 3ware Software 333 Uninstalling 3ware Software under Microsoft Windows 333 Uninstalling 3ware Software under Linux and FreeBSD 333 Uninstalling 3DM Software on VMware 334 Compliance and Conformity Statements 335 FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement 335 Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab 336 European Community Conformity Statement 336 Warranty, Technical Support, and Service 337...
... VMware 332 Uninstalling 3ware Software 333 Uninstalling 3ware Software under Microsoft Windows 333 Uninstalling 3ware Software under Linux and FreeBSD 333 Uninstalling 3DM Software on VMware 334 Compliance and Conformity Statements 335 FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement 335 Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab 336 European Community Conformity Statement 336 Warranty, Technical Support, and Service 337...
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... have not yet done so, see "Using the 3ware HTML Bookshelf" on page xi.) How this User Guide is available on 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE series RAID controllers, using 3ware's Command Line Interface (CLI). Information from : http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp. (Note that came with your 3ware RAID controller. The CLI is described in this Users Guide and...
... have not yet done so, see "Using the 3ware HTML Bookshelf" on page xi.) How this User Guide is available on 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE series RAID controllers, using 3ware's Command Line Interface (CLI). Information from : http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp. (Note that came with your 3ware RAID controller. The CLI is described in this Users Guide and...
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...®, FreeBSD®, and Linux®, and runs in a number of 3ware RAID controllers. Screenshots The screenshots in this guide: • 3BM refers to the 3ware BIOS Manager. • 3DM and 3DM 2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2. • In the sections that appear on the.... Conventions The following conventions are used throughout this documentation are using 3DM, current controller is used to refer to the controller which is used for code and to contact technical support. In addition, the version numbers shown in screenshots for drivers, firmware, and software...
...®, FreeBSD®, and Linux®, and runs in a number of 3ware RAID controllers. Screenshots The screenshots in this guide: • 3BM refers to the 3ware BIOS Manager. • 3DM and 3DM 2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2. • In the sections that appear on the.... Conventions The following conventions are used throughout this documentation are using 3DM, current controller is used to refer to the controller which is used for code and to contact technical support. In addition, the version numbers shown in screenshots for drivers, firmware, and software...
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...• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk (RAID 6 and RAID 50 are available only with 3ware RAID controller models that have 8 or more ports) • Support for storage enclosures • With the 9690SA models: • PCI Express® x8 • Dual-ported SAS drive support •... • With the 9650SE models: • Choice of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 24 SATA ports • PCI Express® x1, x4 and x8 System Requirements 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE model RAID controllers have the following requirements: Motherboard and Slot Requirements A workstation-class or server-class...
...• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk (RAID 6 and RAID 50 are available only with 3ware RAID controller models that have 8 or more ports) • Support for storage enclosures • With the 9690SA models: • PCI Express® x8 • Dual-ported SAS drive support •... • With the 9650SE models: • Choice of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 24 SATA ports • PCI Express® x1, x4 and x8 System Requirements 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE model RAID controllers have the following requirements: Motherboard and Slot Requirements A workstation-class or server-class...
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... XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista, both 32-bit and 64- Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may contain cascaded expanders internally. Enclosure Requirements For 9690SA controllers, enclosure management features in a browser. A list of supported enclosures is available at http://www.3ware.com/support/. bit x86 • Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 •...
... XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista, both 32-bit and 64- Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may contain cascaded expanders internally. Enclosure Requirements For 9690SA controllers, enclosure management features in a browser. A list of supported enclosures is available at http://www.3ware.com/support/. bit x86 • Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 •...
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...hard drives into one drive simultaneously. AMCC's 3ware controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk. RAID 0 RAID 0 provides improved performance, but no fault tolerance. Since the data is striped across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. Striped disk arrays give exceptional ...video editing, computer-aided design and geographical information systems. RAID 0 arrays are taken to exchange a defective drive in the loss of the different RAID levels. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller • Distributed Parity. The process of independent hard...
...hard drives into one drive simultaneously. AMCC's 3ware controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk. RAID 0 RAID 0 provides improved performance, but no fault tolerance. Since the data is striped across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. Striped disk arrays give exceptional ...video editing, computer-aided design and geographical information systems. RAID 0 arrays are taken to exchange a defective drive in the loss of the different RAID levels. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller • Distributed Parity. The process of independent hard...
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...Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for high availability systems unless additional precautions are taken to your 3ware RAID controller. JBOD units are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for high availability systems unless additional precautions are taken to ...take advantage of drive failure. www.3ware.com 11 Hot Spare A hot spare is no longer supported in case of advanced features such as caching, OCE, and RLM. RAID 50 Configuration Example Single Disk A single drive can be configured ...
...Single drives are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for high availability systems unless additional precautions are taken to your 3ware RAID controller. JBOD units are not fault tolerant and therefore not recommended for high availability systems unless additional precautions are taken to ...take advantage of drive failure. www.3ware.com 11 Hot Spare A hot spare is no longer supported in case of advanced features such as caching, OCE, and RLM. RAID 50 Configuration Example Single Disk A single drive can be configured ...
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... 3: RAID Configuration Types RAID Type RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk Description Provides performance, but supported as a configuration. Provides very high fault tolerance with hot spare RAID 10 Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, single disk 12 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Table 4: Possible Configurations Based on the number of drives you have installed. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller Determining...
... 3: RAID Configuration Types RAID Type RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID 50 Single Disk Description Provides performance, but supported as a configuration. Provides very high fault tolerance with hot spare RAID 10 Combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, single disk 12 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Table 4: Possible Configurations Based on the number of drives you have installed. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller Determining...
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...-bit and 64-bit without SP1) and Linux 2.4 and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in a unit must be registered. Support for Multi LUN Support" on page 113. To change this, the unit has to unit creation. Note: All drives in excess of 2 TB or smaller that... the same type, either SAS or SATA. Auto-carving divides the available unit capacity into multiple chunks of 2 TB. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller down to Knowledgease article # 13431, at http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=13431. 14 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
...-bit and 64-bit without SP1) and Linux 2.4 and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in a unit must be registered. Support for Multi LUN Support" on page 113. To change this, the unit has to unit creation. Note: All drives in excess of 2 TB or smaller that... the same type, either SAS or SATA. Auto-carving divides the available unit capacity into multiple chunks of 2 TB. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller down to Knowledgease article # 13431, at http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=13431. 14 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
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... DPM is described in 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide and in monitoring and troubleshooting your RAID controller and units. SMART data is causing problems so that are supported. Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf. You can... that support this feature to be useful to AMCC technical support to help you can view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. Both SATAII OOB and ATA spin-...
... DPM is described in 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide and in monitoring and troubleshooting your RAID controller and units. SMART data is causing problems so that are supported. Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features Several 3ware RAID controller features aid in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf. You can... that support this feature to be useful to AMCC technical support to help you can view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. Both SATAII OOB and ATA spin-...
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... an available drive or with the redundant data. When write cache is enabled, data will be stored in 3ware controller cache and drive cache before the data is stored in supported enclosures can also define the rate at which component needs to reallocate the error sectors accordingly. (For more information...checked or replaced. For times when you choose a time for a unit when write cache is based intelligently on single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. If the disk drive is part of protection versus performance that is desired for these tasks to process multiple write commands ...
... an available drive or with the redundant data. When write cache is enabled, data will be stored in 3ware controller cache and drive cache before the data is stored in supported enclosures can also define the rate at which component needs to reallocate the error sectors accordingly. (For more information...checked or replaced. For times when you choose a time for a unit when write cache is based intelligently on single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. If the disk drive is part of protection versus performance that is desired for these tasks to process multiple write commands ...
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...review "System Requirements" on page 2. 2 Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your system, you may want to install the operating system on and boot from the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/ support/userdocs.asp. Tip: When you perform these steps depends in ... installation guide that came with your enclosure. If you are first setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these main steps: • Physically Install the RAID Controller and Drives • Configure a RAID Unit • Install the Driver and Make the Operating System Aware of the New...
...review "System Requirements" on page 2. 2 Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller Setting up your system, you may want to install the operating system on and boot from the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/ support/userdocs.asp. Tip: When you perform these steps depends in ... installation guide that came with your enclosure. If you are first setting up your 3ware RAID controller involves these main steps: • Physically Install the RAID Controller and Drives • Configure a RAID Unit • Install the Driver and Make the Operating System Aware of the New...
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... you may want to refer to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction" • Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" • 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CDROM, the 3ware HTML Bookshelf and from the website http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp Install the Driver and Make the Operating System Aware of...
... you may want to refer to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction" • Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" • 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CDROM, the 3ware HTML Bookshelf and from the website http:// www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp Install the Driver and Make the Operating System Aware of...
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... system, you can create one or more units on a single controller, depending on the number of drives that the specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives attached. (For more information, see "Determining What RAID Level to configure the unit and install the driver. You can ...use the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) to Use" on page 12.) Basic Steps for Creating a Unit...
... system, you can create one or more units on a single controller, depending on the number of drives that the specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives attached. (For more information, see "Determining What RAID Level to configure the unit and install the driver. You can ...use the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) to Use" on page 12.) Basic Steps for Creating a Unit...
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... access) and larger stripe sizes for random access (such as a database). Figure 12. www.3ware.com 25 Figure 13. List of Configuration Choices for Four Drives 3 Use the arrow keys to display the available RAID levels for RAID 1, because it is supported. Notes: Striping size is not applicable for the number of 64KB is a mirrored...
... access) and larger stripe sizes for random access (such as a database). Figure 12. www.3ware.com 25 Figure 13. List of Configuration Choices for Four Drives 3 Use the arrow keys to display the available RAID levels for RAID 1, because it is supported. Notes: Striping size is not applicable for the number of 64KB is a mirrored...
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...information about auto-carving, see "Boot volume size" on page 92. For more information about creating a boot volume, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 103. To confirm unit configuration 1 Press Tab to select the OK button and press Enter to continue. Basic Steps for Creating a Unit ... Setting a Boot Volume Size is 2TB or greater, you may also want to review the information about carving the unit into multiple volumes. www.3ware.com 27 If the size of your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key ...
...information about auto-carving, see "Boot volume size" on page 92. For more information about creating a boot volume, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 103. To confirm unit configuration 1 Press Tab to select the OK button and press Enter to continue. Basic Steps for Creating a Unit ... Setting a Boot Volume Size is 2TB or greater, you may also want to review the information about carving the unit into multiple volumes. www.3ware.com 27 If the size of your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key ...