Document Outline

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Features
  • Troubleshooting assistance
• Accessing the Configuration Utility
  • Accessing the utility
  • Using the VT-100 terminal
  • Navigating the SATA RAID configuration utility
    • Menu system
  • Viewing controller information
• Creating Disk Arrays
  • Overview
  • Understanding arrays
    • Terminology
    • Optimization and drive selection for RAID 5 arrays
  • Creating arrays
  • Configuring array read-ahead and writeback cache
    • Read-ahead cache
    • Writeback cache
  • Assigning hot spare drives
  • Deleting an array
  • Expanding an array
    • Adding additional drives
    • Adding additional sub-arrays
  • Trusting an array
• Logical Drives
  • Overview
    • Terminology
  • Accessing the LUN configuration menu
  • Viewing unassigned free space
  • Creating a logical drive
    • Expanding a logical drive
    • Setting logical drive availability
    • Deleteing a logical drive
    • Modifying a mapped LUN
• SAN LUN Mapping
  • Overview
    • Terminology
  • Accessing the SAN LUN mapping configuration menu
  • Viewing SAN LUN mappings
  • Creating a SAN LUN mapping
  • Deleting a SAN LUN mapping
  • Modifying SAN LUN Mapping
  • Viewing connected hosts
• Advanced Configuration and Management
  • Setting rebuild parameters
    • Enabling/disabling auto rebuild
    • Configuring auto hot spare
  • Configuring hot spares
    • Viewing the list of hot spare drives
    • Adding or removing hot spare drives
  • Configuring the hardware
    • Setting the controller LUN
    • Setting the controller port ID
    • Controller port data rate
    • Setting the RS-232 configuration
    • Packetized data transfers/QAS
  • Viewing controller information
  • Clearing the configuration
• Additional Configuration
  • Modifying the configuration name
  • Verifying background media
  • Including enclosure events in event logs
• Statistics
  • Overview
  • Viewing all statistics
    • Dumping data to a text file
  • Viewing access statistics
  • Viewing readahead statistics
  • Viewing command cluster statistics
  • Viewing miscellaneous statistics
  • Viewing access statistics on each logical drive
  • Clearing access statistics on each logical drive (LUN)
  • Clearing all statistics
• Event Logs
  • Accessing event logs
  • Controller events
  • Drive events
  • Controller drive port (host) events
  • Enclosure events
  • Failed drives
  • Clearing event logs
• Diagnostics
  • Accessing diagnostics
  • Using offline diagnostics
  • Using online diagnostics
  • Controller maintenance - downloading firmware
  • Drive maintenance
    • Download the firmware from the host
      • Read firmware from a drive to the buffer
    • Checking RAID 5/50 parity
    • Tracing commands
  • Shutting down the controller
  • Dumping diagnostics
• Optimizing RAID 5 Write Performance
  • Introduction
    • Sequential access
    • Number of outstanding commands
    • Access size
    • Access alignment
  • Using RAID 5 sub-arrays
    • Experiencing multiple drive failures
    • Promoting faster rebuild
  • Summary
• Technical Support
  • Technical Support
    • Telephone numbers
  • Notices
• Index
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