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... is Organized v Conventions vii Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 1 Product Models and Features 1 What's New with Your 3ware RAID Controller 15 Chapter 3. Getting Started with 9550SX and 9590SE ...3ware Controller Available to Use 9 3ware Tools for Creating a Unit 19 Specifying a Hot Spare 27 Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs 27 Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence 28 What Next 28 Chapter 4. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 19 Basic Steps for Configuration and Management 12 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 12 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 12 3ware...
... is Organized v Conventions vii Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 1 Product Models and Features 1 What's New with Your 3ware RAID Controller 15 Chapter 3. Getting Started with 9550SX and 9590SE ...3ware Controller Available to Use 9 3ware Tools for Creating a Unit 19 Specifying a Hot Spare 27 Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs 27 Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence 28 What Next 28 Chapter 4. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 19 Basic Steps for Configuration and Management 12 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 12 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 12 3ware...
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... Series Serial ATA Controller Models Series 4-port 8-port 12-port 16-port 9500S 9500S-4LPa 9500S-8 9500S-8MIb 9500S-12 9500S-12MI 9550SX 9550SX-4LP 9550SX-8LP 9550SX-12 9550SX-12MI 9550SX16MLc 9590SE 9590SE-8ML 9590SE-12ML 9590SE-16ML a. ML indicates a multilane SFF-8087 connector www.3ware.com 1 It includes the following sections: • "Product Models...
... Series Serial ATA Controller Models Series 4-port 8-port 12-port 16-port 9500S 9500S-4LPa 9500S-8 9500S-8MIb 9500S-12 9500S-12MI 9550SX 9550SX-4LP 9550SX-8LP 9550SX-12 9550SX-12MI 9550SX16MLc 9590SE 9590SE-8ML 9590SE-12ML 9590SE-16ML a. ML indicates a multilane SFF-8087 connector www.3ware.com 1 It includes the following sections: • "Product Models...
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...are then grouped as RAID 1 and RAID 5), since the array can fail and the array will be lost . 8 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For example, on a 12-port controller, you can have 3 disks each RAID 5 set fail, then all of each mirrored pair) and the array will...fault tolerant array using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques. Striped and mirrored arrays for fault tolerance and high performance. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 10 This array is a combination of four drives are configured using RAID 1. A minimum of RAID 5 with RAID 50. ...
...are then grouped as RAID 1 and RAID 5), since the array can fail and the array will be lost . 8 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For example, on a 12-port controller, you can have 3 disks each RAID 5 set fail, then all of each mirrored pair) and the array will...fault tolerant array using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques. Striped and mirrored arrays for fault tolerance and high performance. Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller RAID 10 This array is a combination of four drives are configured using RAID 1. A minimum of RAID 5 with RAID 50. ...
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...RAID 50 Depending on the number of 4 drives. With 16 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of smallest drive) 10 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide With 10 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of 8 drives or 4 subunits of drives, a RAID 50 may...) X (capacity of the smallest drive) capacity of the smallest drive (number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 10 Storage efficiency increases with 12 drives, possible RAID 50 configurations include 2 subunits of 6, 3 subunits of 4, or 4 subunits of the smallest drive in the array. Combination of RAID...
...RAID 50 Depending on the number of 4 drives. With 16 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of smallest drive) 10 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide With 10 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of 8 drives or 4 subunits of drives, a RAID 50 may...) X (capacity of the smallest drive) capacity of the smallest drive (number of drives - 1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 10 Storage efficiency increases with 12 drives, possible RAID 50 configurations include 2 subunits of 6, 3 subunits of 4, or 4 subunits of the smallest drive in the array. Combination of RAID...
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... associated drives. Throughout this documentation, it is the current version of the controller, but can be used together as 3DM and 3DM 2. 12 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For general information about working with 3DM, see Chapter 5, "3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2),". 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3DM is a daemon (under Linux) and a service (under Windows...
... associated drives. Throughout this documentation, it is the current version of the controller, but can be used together as 3DM and 3DM 2. 12 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For general information about working with 3DM, see Chapter 5, "3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2),". 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) 3DM is a daemon (under Linux) and a service (under Windows...
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...Delay Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX and 9590SE controllers because this feature is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Unit-Level Settings Auto-Verify Continue on ...Enabled Disabled Disabled Blank Disabled Protection Enabled Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Yes Where to... 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
...Delay Between Spinup Export Unconfigured (JBOD) Disks Disable Cache on Degraded Array (does not apply to 9550SX and 9590SE controllers because this feature is integrated into StorSave Profile) Staggered Method Staggered Spinup Unit-Level Settings Auto-Verify Continue on ...Enabled Disabled Disabled Blank Disabled Protection Enabled Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Yes Where to... 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
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... watch for just a few seconds. Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to bring up or reboot your disk array configuration may overwrite data on -screen... for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, ...
... watch for just a few seconds. Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to bring up or reboot your disk array configuration may overwrite data on -screen... for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, ...
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... Up key. After finalizing the configuration below, be Created To finish up in the list of them, make sure that the controller is the boot device for Creating a Unit Figure 12. Figure 13. To move a unit up and save the changes and exit 3BM. You will also want to make that all... existing data on page 28. 3 When you can go ahead and configure an additional RAID unit or designate a hot spare. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting www.3ware.com...
... Up key. After finalizing the configuration below, be Created To finish up in the list of them, make sure that the controller is the boot device for Creating a Unit Figure 12. Figure 13. To move a unit up and save the changes and exit 3BM. You will also want to make that all... existing data on page 28. 3 When you can go ahead and configure an additional RAID unit or designate a hot spare. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting www.3ware.com...
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...and the CD, and reboot. 7 Immediately after the system starts booting the kernel, insert the floppy containing the appropriate 3ware 9550SX kernel driver module into FreeBSD, the next step is to loader prompt." 9 At the loader prompt, load the ... the twa_9ksx.ko kernel driver module and you have 9550SX/9590SE support, for FreeBSD 5.4 can be found on the 3ware CD-ROM, at packages/drivers/freebsd/5.4/9550sxInstall/x86 or x86_64 twa_9ksx.ko is the floppy drive) Then boot, by ..., see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. 12 Reboot your system.
...and the CD, and reboot. 7 Immediately after the system starts booting the kernel, insert the floppy containing the appropriate 3ware 9550SX kernel driver module into FreeBSD, the next step is to loader prompt." 9 At the loader prompt, load the ... the twa_9ksx.ko kernel driver module and you have 9550SX/9590SE support, for FreeBSD 5.4 can be found on the 3ware CD-ROM, at packages/drivers/freebsd/5.4/9550sxInstall/x86 or x86_64 twa_9ksx.ko is the floppy drive) Then boot, by ..., see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. 12 Reboot your system.
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...the units connected to your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for a screen similar to Figure 24. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: ...(PrimaryRAID5) 7B300S0 7B300S0 7B300S0 279.48 GB 279.48 GB 279.48 GB Figure 24. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to the later sections in the 3BM Screens" on page 58 • "Displaying Controller Information" on page 63 • "Getting Help While Using 3BM" on page 57 &#...
...the units connected to your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for a screen similar to Figure 24. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: ...(PrimaryRAID5) 7B300S0 7B300S0 7B300S0 279.48 GB 279.48 GB 279.48 GB Figure 24. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to the later sections in the 3BM Screens" on page 58 • "Displaying Controller Information" on page 63 • "Getting Help While Using 3BM" on page 57 &#...
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...on page 128. For information about these configurations, see "Configuring a New Unit" on page 6. When you are configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives Name. Stripe. A larger stripe size will give better performance with applications that have many sequential reads and writes. Available configurations may include ...50, Single Disk, and Spare Disk. The drop-down . In general, the smaller the stripe size, the better the sequential I/O www.3ware.com 107 Type. Figure 45. You can enter a name for the configuration you select the number of stripe sizes lists the possible stripe ...
...on page 128. For information about these configurations, see "Configuring a New Unit" on page 6. When you are configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives Name. Stripe. A larger stripe size will give better performance with applications that have many sequential reads and writes. Available configurations may include ...50, Single Disk, and Spare Disk. The drop-down . In general, the smaller the stripe size, the better the sequential I/O www.3ware.com 107 Type. Figure 45. You can enter a name for the configuration you select the number of stripe sizes lists the possible stripe ...
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... delay between spinup: Select the number of seconds-from 1 to 6. • Staggered Method: Select either ATA-6 or SATA OOB as 3BM makes the policy changes. 124 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The policy is supported. 3 Tab to see the knowledgebase article 14889, at one time. Not all drives ... staggered spinup. If you want to use: • Number of Drives Per Spinup: Select the number of drives-from 1 to 4, 8, or 12, depending on the number of ports on the controller. • Delay between spinups 1 At the main 3BM screen, Tab to Policy and press Enter. 2 On the Policy...
... delay between spinup: Select the number of seconds-from 1 to 6. • Staggered Method: Select either ATA-6 or SATA OOB as 3BM makes the policy changes. 124 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The policy is supported. 3 Tab to see the knowledgebase article 14889, at one time. Not all drives ... staggered spinup. If you want to use: • Number of Drives Per Spinup: Select the number of drives-from 1 to 4, 8, or 12, depending on the number of ports on the controller. • Delay between spinups 1 At the main 3BM screen, Tab to Policy and press Enter. 2 On the Policy...
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Figure 54. Chapter 8. Configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives 8 Make changes to the controller and selected RAID 50 as the configuration in 3DM 4 In the window, select the RAID configuration you want. 5 If stripe size applies to the RAID ... Unit Policies" on Source Error During Rebuild. You can enable or disable the Write Cache, Auto-Verify, and Continue on page 142. 9 Click OK. 132 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide You can also set the StorSave policy. Configuring Units Figure 53. Configuring a Unit in step 3, select whether you have...
Figure 54. Chapter 8. Configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives 8 Make changes to the controller and selected RAID 50 as the configuration in 3DM 4 In the window, select the RAID configuration you want. 5 If stripe size applies to the RAID ... Unit Policies" on Source Error During Rebuild. You can enable or disable the Write Cache, Auto-Verify, and Continue on page 142. 9 Click OK. 132 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide You can also set the StorSave policy. Configuring Units Figure 53. Configuring a Unit in step 3, select whether you have...
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... or perform maintenance tasks. Creating a Unit through 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, select the drives to select it is initializing and is fault-tolerant. 12 Partition and format the unit. In Linux, a device node will now be used while it . Note: For RAID 5 units with 5 or more information, ... by highlighting each unit created. Steps will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon. 10 Partition and format the unit. For details, see "3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2)" on page 137. For more disks, and RAID 50 units with each one and pressing Enter or Space to be ...
... or perform maintenance tasks. Creating a Unit through 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, select the drives to select it is initializing and is fault-tolerant. 12 Partition and format the unit. In Linux, a device node will now be used while it . Note: For RAID 5 units with 5 or more information, ... by highlighting each unit created. Steps will reflect the changes under the disk drives icon. 10 Partition and format the unit. For details, see "3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2)" on page 137. For more disks, and RAID 50 units with each one and pressing Enter or Space to be ...
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Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting If you made may extend beyond one controller, the details about changes about to proceed. You can postpone initialization if you are finished making...exit 3BM. For more than it will be deleted, and asks you to confirm that all your changes and press F8. 12 When you want to be a longer period of the unit begins immediately. Figure 60. A warning message tells you that you... making configuration changes, press F8 to units on more information, see "About Initialization" on page 177. 136 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting If you made may extend beyond one controller, the details about changes about to proceed. You can postpone initialization if you are finished making...exit 3BM. For more than it will be deleted, and asks you to confirm that all your changes and press F8. 12 When you want to be a longer period of the unit begins immediately. Figure 60. A warning message tells you that you... making configuration changes, press F8 to units on more information, see "About Initialization" on page 177. 136 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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... or RAID 1 No RAID 1 RAID 10 No RAID 5 with 3 or 4 disks RAID 50 with 6, 8, or 9 disks RAID 50 with 12 disks in 3 subunits of 4 RAID 50 with 12 disks in 4 subunits of 3 RAID 50 with 16 disks in 4 subunits of 4 Yes RAID 5 with 5 or more disks RAID 50 with... tolerant and are immediately available for Highest Performance? Initialization of a RAID 1 unit results in 2 subunits of 6 Auto Initialization After Power Failure The 3ware controller detects and handles power failures. About Background Tasks Initialization of RAID 1 and RAID 10 Units RAID 1 and RAID 10 units do not need to...
... or RAID 1 No RAID 1 RAID 10 No RAID 5 with 3 or 4 disks RAID 50 with 6, 8, or 9 disks RAID 50 with 12 disks in 3 subunits of 4 RAID 50 with 12 disks in 4 subunits of 3 RAID 50 with 16 disks in 4 subunits of 4 Yes RAID 5 with 5 or more disks RAID 50 with... tolerant and are immediately available for Highest Performance? Initialization of a RAID 1 unit results in 2 subunits of 6 Auto Initialization After Power Failure The 3ware controller detects and handles power failures. About Background Tasks Initialization of RAID 1 and RAID 10 Units RAID 1 and RAID 10 units do not need to...
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... can now add another . The illustration below shows this way. To remove a task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. www.3ware.com 187 When seven schedules are shown for any of the current Verify or Rebuild task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. Removing... in this setting for Rebuild/Migrate Tasks. 2 To view Verify Tasks or Self-test Tasks, select it from the drop-down list at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours. The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the rebuild task schedule. You can be Performed" ...
... can now add another . The illustration below shows this way. To remove a task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. www.3ware.com 187 When seven schedules are shown for any of the current Verify or Rebuild task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. Removing... in this setting for Rebuild/Migrate Tasks. 2 To view Verify Tasks or Self-test Tasks, select it from the drop-down list at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours. The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the rebuild task schedule. You can be Performed" ...
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In a 6-drive configuration, up to four drives can be rebuilt. In an 8-drive configuration, up to two drives can be rebuilt. In a 12-drive configuration, up to three drives can be rebuilt. It is only one failed drive in each mirrored pair. A RAID 50 unit can be rebuilt. ... non-degraded drives. Note: If both drives in a RAID 10 unit can force the rebuild to replace the degraded drive and click OK. 190 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Up to half of the drives in a RAID 10 mirror set . When a RAID 5 is optional as the failed drives are only...
In a 6-drive configuration, up to four drives can be rebuilt. In an 8-drive configuration, up to two drives can be rebuilt. In a 12-drive configuration, up to three drives can be rebuilt. It is only one failed drive in each mirrored pair. A RAID 50 unit can be rebuilt. ... non-degraded drives. Note: If both drives in a RAID 10 unit can force the rebuild to replace the degraded drive and click OK. 190 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Up to half of the drives in a RAID 10 mirror set . When a RAID 5 is optional as the failed drives are only...
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Search for Driver Screen www.3ware.com 209 Upgrade/Install Device Driver Wizard 13 At the next screen (Figure 85) choose "Don't search. Figure 85. Figure 84. I will choose the driver to install" and click Next. Updating the Driver and Firmware 12 When you reach the Hardware Update Wizard screen shown in Figure 84, select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" and then click Next.
Search for Driver Screen www.3ware.com 209 Upgrade/Install Device Driver Wizard 13 At the next screen (Figure 85) choose "Don't search. Figure 85. Figure 84. I will choose the driver to install" and click Next. Updating the Driver and Firmware 12 When you reach the Hardware Update Wizard screen shown in Figure 84, select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" and then click Next.
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... is now updated. 11 Stop the current driver module, if loaded: rmmod 3w-9xxx 12 Load the new driver module: modprobe 3w-9xxx If the new driver fails to compile ... you are able to the boot loader. For more information, see entries likes reiserfs, ext3 or scsi_mod. www.3ware.com 215 You may need to load properly, confirm that are using lilo, use insmod 3w-9xxx.o, instead.) Make...if you used correct driver. If not, add it after running lilo. 10 Reboot, if booted from the 3ware controller. You should see a printout of kernels that you prefer to use lilo to update to boot on the ...
... is now updated. 11 Stop the current driver module, if loaded: rmmod 3w-9xxx 12 Load the new driver module: modprobe 3w-9xxx If the new driver fails to compile ... you are able to the boot loader. For more information, see entries likes reiserfs, ext3 or scsi_mod. www.3ware.com 215 You may need to load properly, confirm that are using lilo, use insmod 3w-9xxx.o, instead.) Make...if you used correct driver. If not, add it after running lilo. 10 Reboot, if booted from the 3ware controller. You should see a printout of kernels that you prefer to use lilo to update to boot on the ...