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• HP PCIe IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers User Guide
• Notice
• Contents
• About this guide
  • Contents summary
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Performance attributes
  • Packing list
  • Required operating environment
    • Supported firmware revisions
    • Supported hardware
• Hardware installation
  • Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator
    • Installing a half-height bracket
  • Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator Duo
• Linux environments
  • Linux installation requirements
  • Downloading and installing the driver and utilities using Linux
    • Installing the HP installer script
  • Loading the IO Accelerator driver using Linux
  • Setting the driver options
    • Module parameters
    • One-time configuration
    • Persistent configuration
    • Controlling driver loading
      • Using the init scripts
        • Mounting filesystems
        • Driver unloads
        • Uninstalling the IO Accelerator utilities using Linux
      • Using the udev script
      • Disabling the driver
  • Upgrading firmware using Linux
  • Uninstalling and upgrading the driver using Linux
  • Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Linux
  • Using the Logical Volume Manager
  • Configuring RAID for Linux
    • RAID0/Striped
      • Making an array persistent
    • RAID1/Mirrored
    • RAID 10
      • Building a RAID 10 configuration across multiple IO Accelerator Duos
  • Setting up SNMP for Linux
    • SNMP details for Linux
    • SNMP master agent
    • Launching the SNMP master agent
    • Configuring the SNMP master agent
    • Running the SNMP master agent
    • SNMP agentx subagent
      • Installing the SNMP subagent
      • Running and configuring the SNMP subagent
      • Manually running the SNMP subagent
      • Subagent log file
      • Using the SNMP sample config files
      • Enabling SNMP test mode
    • Troubleshooting SNMP
    • SNMP MIB fields supporting Linux
• Windows Server environments
  • Uninstalling a previously-installed driver
  • Installing software on a Windows system
    • Using the Setup Wizard
  • Manual installation on Windows Server
    • Manual installation on Windows Server 2003
    • Manual installation on Windows Server 2008
  • Upgrading the device firmware using Windows
    • Checking for outdated or old firmware
    • Viewing the firmware version
    • Performing the upgrade
  • Upgrading driver software using Windows
    • Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non-RAID configuration
    • Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID configuration
  • Defragmentation
  • IO Accelerator naming
  • Adding a file system, formatting, and performing multi-disk configuration
  • Creating a RAID configuration
  • Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system
  • Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems
    • SNMP details for Windows operating systems
    • Using test mode registry values
    • SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Server
  • Using installation logs
    • Windows Installer logging options
    • Creating an installation log
    • Creating an uninstall log
    • Creating a patch install log
    • Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy
    • Troubleshooting event log messages
• VMWare ESX environments
  • Creating the ESX IO Accelerator driver CD
  • Installing the driver as part of a new ESX installation
  • Installing the driver using vihostupdate
  • Installing the driver using esxupdate
  • Installing the IO Accelerator utilities using ESX
  • Configuring the IO Accelerator using ESX
  • Upgrading the firmware using ESX
  • Working with IO Accelerator devices and PCI pass-through
    • Using IO Accelerator Duos with PCI pass-through
  • Using the IO Accelerator as swap with ESX
  • Disabling the driver using ESX
  • Enabling the driver using ESX
  • Uninstalling the driver utilities using ESX
• HP IO Accelerator Management Tool
  • Operating system support
    • Linux
    • Windows
  • Software installation
    • Installing software using Linux
      • License agreement
  • IO Accelerator management
    • Device report
    • Performance report
    • IO Accelerator Management Tool interface options
    • Detached IO Accelerator after installation
    • Navigating the IO Accelerator Management Tool
  • Device Tree
    • Drive status
  • Device Report panel
    • Saving IO Accelerator information
  • Performance monitoring
  • Operations
    • Update firmware
    • Firmware already updated
    • Attach Device
    • Attaching mixed attached/detached devices
    • Detach Device
    • Detaching mixed attached/detached devices
    • Low level format
  • IO Accelerator Management Tool Menu
• Maintenance
  • Maintenance tools
  • PCIe IO Accelerator LED indicators
  • Common maintenance tasks
    • Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package
    • Disabling auto attach
    • Enabling auto attach
    • Unmanaged shutdown issues
• Utilities
  • Utilities reference
  • fio-attach
  • fio-beacon
  • fio-bugreport
  • fio-config (Windows only)
    • fio-config options
  • fio-detach
  • fio-format
  • fio-pci-check
  • fio-read-lebmap (Linux only)
  • fio-snmp-agentx (Linux only)
  • fio-status
  • fio-trim-config
  • fio-update-iodrive
• Monitoring IO Accelerator health
  • NAND flash and component failure
  • Health metrics
  • Health monitoring techniques
  • Flashback substitution events
  • Software RAID and health monitoring
• Trim support (Windows only)
  • Introduction to Trim
  • Trim platforms
  • Using Trim
    • Starting and stopping Trim
    • Enabling Trim
    • Controlling Trim aggressiveness
  • Trim configurations
• Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator
  • Introduction to Windows page files
  • Configuring IO Accelerator paging support
    • RAM consumption
    • Non-paged memory pool
    • Enabling and disabling paging support
  • Windows page file management
    • Setting up page files
    • System drive paging file configuration
    • Guaranteeing minimum commitable memory
    • Verifying page file operation
  • Virtual Memory performance
• Resources
  • Subscription service
  • For more information
  • Documentation feedback
• Technical support
  • Before you contact HP
  • HP contact information
  • Customer Self Repair
• Regulatory compliance notices
  • Regulatory compliance identification numbers
  • European Union regulatory notice
  • Disposal of waste equipment by users in private households in the European Union
  • Taiwan battery recycling notice
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Index