HP MSR Encryption Accelerators - Manual (Page 3)

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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
Software installation .................................................................................................................... 12
Installation overview ................................................................................................................................ 12
Installing RPM packages on SUSE, RHEL, and OEL ...................................................................................... 12
Building the IO Accelerator driver from source ............................................................................................ 14
Building an RPM installation package .............................................................................................. 14
Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to 3.x.x ......................................................................... 15
Upgrading procedure .................................................................................................................... 16
Loading the IO Accelerator driver .............................................................................................................. 18
Controlling IO Accelerator driver loading ......................................................................................... 18
Using the init script ........................................................................................................................ 19
Mounting filesystems ...................................................................................................................... 20
Handling IO Accelerator driver unloads ........................................................................................... 20
Setting the IO Accelerator driver options .................................................................................................... 20
Using module parameters ............................................................................................................... 20
One-time configuration ................................................................................................................... 21
Persistent configuration ................................................................................................................... 21
Upgrading the firmware ........................................................................................................................... 21
Enabling PCIe power ............................................................................................................................... 22
Using the device as swap ......................................................................................................................... 22
Using the Logical Volume Manager ........................................................................................................... 22
Configuring RAID .................................................................................................................................... 23
RAID 0 ......................................................................................................................................... 23
RAID 1 ......................................................................................................................................... 25
RAID 10 ....................................................................................................................................... 25
Understanding Discard (TRIM) support ....................................................................................................... 26
Discard TRIM on Linux .................................................................................................................... 26
Setting up SNMP for Linux ........................................................................................................... 27
SNMP details for Linux ............................................................................................................................. 27
Files and directories ................................................................................................................................. 27
SNMP master agent................................................................................................................................. 27
Launching the SNMP master agent .................................................................................................. 27
Configuring the SNMP master agent ................................................................................................ 28
SNMP agentX subagent ........................................................................................................................... 28
Installing the SNMP subagent .......................................................................................................... 28
Running and configuring the SNMP subagent ................................................................................... 29