Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e User Manual
3ware, Sata+sas raid controller card software user guide, User guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction
- 3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager 2) Introduction
- Browser Requirements for 3DM2
- Installing 3DM2
- Starting 3DM2 and Logging In
- Working with the 3DM2 Screens
- Setting Up 3DM2 Preferences
- Configuring Your Controller
- Viewing Information About a Controller
- About Controller Policies
- Viewing Controller Policies
- Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy
- Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support
- Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving
- Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up
- Viewing Information About a Phy
- Changing the Phy Link Speed
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM2
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- About Initialization
- About Verification
- Using Auto Verification
- Starting a Verify Manually
- Rebuilding Units
- Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive
- Working with the Background Task Mode
- Setting the Background Task Mode
- Setting Background Task Rate
- Background Task Prioritization
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Maintaining Your Controller
- Enclosure Management
- 3DM2 Reference
- Controller Summary page
- Controller Details page
- Unit Information page
- Unit Details page
- Drive Information page
- Drive Details window
- Controller Phy Summary page
- Controller Settings page
- Scheduling page
- Maintenance page
- Alarms page
- Battery Backup page
- Enclosure Summary page
- Enclosure Details page
- 3DM2 Settings page
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Driver and Software Installation
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under FreeBSD
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under Linux
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Disk
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Kernel String Conventions
- Module Naming Conventions
- Driver Installation Under SUSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under SUSE
- Installing Management Software (3DM2 and CLI)
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under Mac OS X
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under OpenSolaris
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under VMware
- Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under Windows
- Compliance and Conformity Statements
- Warranty, Technical Support, and Service
- Index