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Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 6
Contents summary ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 7
Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Product naming ......................................................................................................................................... 7
Performance attributes ................................................................................................................................ 8
Required operating environment .................................................................................................................. 9
Supported firmware revisions ............................................................................................................ 9
Supported hardware ........................................................................................................................ 9
Windows Server environments ..................................................................................................... 12
Installation overview ................................................................................................................................ 12
Uninstalling a previously-installed driver ..................................................................................................... 12
Installing software on a Windows operating system ..................................................................................... 13
Using the Setup Wizard ................................................................................................................. 14
Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to 3.x.x ......................................................................... 19
Upgrading procedure .................................................................................................................... 20
Manual installation on Windows Server ..................................................................................................... 21
Manually installing on Windows Server 2003 ................................................................................... 22
Manually installing on Windows Server 2008 and 2012 ................................................................... 23
Upgrading the device firmware using Windows .......................................................................................... 23
Viewing the firmware version .......................................................................................................... 23
Performing the upgrade .................................................................................................................. 23
Upgrading driver software using Windows ................................................................................................. 24
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non-RAID configuration ............................................... 24
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID configuration ..................................................... 25
Defragmentation ..................................................................................................................................... 26
Silent install option .................................................................................................................................. 26
Outdated firmware check ......................................................................................................................... 26
Enabling PCIe power ............................................................................................................................... 27
IO Accelerator naming ............................................................................................................................. 27
Adding a file system, formatting, and performing multi-disk configuration ....................................................... 28
Creating a RAID configuration .................................................................................................................. 29
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system ............................................................... 29
Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems ....................................................................................... 29
SNMP details for Windows operating systems ................................................................................... 29
Using test mode registry values ........................................................................................................ 30
SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Server ................................................................................... 31
Using installation logs .............................................................................................................................. 33
Windows Installer logging options ................................................................................................... 33
Creating an installation log ............................................................................................................. 34
Creating an uninstall log ................................................................................................................ 34
Creating a patch install log ............................................................................................................. 34
Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy ............................................................ 35
Troubleshooting event log messages ................................................................................................ 35
