Contents 5
Device Tree ............................................................................................................................................ 71
Drive status ................................................................................................................................... 72
Device Report panel ................................................................................................................................ 75
Saving IO Accelerator information ................................................................................................... 77
Performance monitoring ........................................................................................................................... 77
Operations ............................................................................................................................................. 78
Update firmware ........................................................................................................................... 79
Firmware already updated.............................................................................................................. 82
Attach Device ............................................................................................................................... 83
Attaching mixed attached/detached devices ..................................................................................... 84
Detach Device ............................................................................................................................... 84
Detaching mixed attached/detached devices .................................................................................... 85
Low level format ............................................................................................................................ 85
IO Accelerator Management Tool Menu ..................................................................................................... 87
Maintenance .............................................................................................................................. 89
Maintenance tools ................................................................................................................................... 89
PCIe IO Accelerator LED indicators ............................................................................................................ 89
Common maintenance tasks ..................................................................................................................... 90
Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package.................................................................................. 90
Disabling auto attach ..................................................................................................................... 90
Enabling auto attach ...................................................................................................................... 91
Unmanaged shutdown issues .......................................................................................................... 92
Utilities ...................................................................................................................................... 93
Utilities reference ..................................................................................................................................... 93
fio-attach ................................................................................................................................................ 94
fio-beacon .............................................................................................................................................. 94
fio-bugreport ........................................................................................................................................... 95
fio-config (Windows only)......................................................................................................................... 95
fio-config options ........................................................................................................................... 95
fio-detach ............................................................................................................................................... 96
fio-format ............................................................................................................................................... 96
fio-pci-check ........................................................................................................................................... 97
fio-read-lebmap (Linux only) ...................................................................................................................... 97
fio-snmp-agentx (Linux only) ...................................................................................................................... 97
fio-status ................................................................................................................................................. 98
fio-trim-config ........................................................................................................................................ 100
fio-update-iodrive .................................................................................................................................. 100
Monitoring IO Accelerator health ............................................................................................... 102
NAND flash and component failure ......................................................................................................... 102
Health metrics ....................................................................................................................................... 102
Health monitoring techniques .................................................................................................................. 102
Flashback substitution events ................................................................................................................... 103
Software RAID and health monitoring ...................................................................................................... 103
Trim support (Windows only) ..................................................................................................... 105
Introduction to Trim ................................................................................................................................ 105
Trim platforms ....................................................................................................................................... 105
Using Trim ............................................................................................................................................ 105
Starting and stopping Trim ............................................................................................................ 106
Enabling Trim .............................................................................................................................. 106
Controlling Trim aggressiveness..................................................................................................... 106
Trim configurations ................................................................................................................................ 107
