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Contents
Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5
Board components .................................................................................................................................... 5
SAS/SATA connectors on the front of the board .................................................................................. 5
SAS/SATA connectors on the back of the board.................................................................................. 6
Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 6
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 8
Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 8
Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................ 8
Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................. 10
Before beginning the installation ............................................................................................................... 10
Preparing the server................................................................................................................................. 10
Installing the controller board.................................................................................................................... 10
Connecting storage devices ...................................................................................................................... 11
Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 12
Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 12
Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 13
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 13
Comparing the utilities ............................................................................................................................. 13
Using ORCA........................................................................................................................................... 14
Using ACU ............................................................................................................................................. 15
Using CPQONLIN................................................................................................................................... 15
Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................ 15
Expanding an array....................................................................................................................... 16
Adding or configuring spare drives.................................................................................................. 16
Migrating RAID level and stripe size online....................................................................................... 17
Setting the boot controller and controller order ............................................................................... 18
Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 18
Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................ 18
Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 19
Installing device drivers ............................................................................................................................ 19
Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 19
Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 20
Installing or replacing a battery................................................................................................................. 20
Installing a battery ......................................................................................................................... 20
Replacing a battery ....................................................................................................................... 21
Upgrading the cache ............................................................................................................................... 22
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives ..................................................................................... 24
Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 24
Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 25
Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 26
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 26
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 26
Replacing hard drives .............................................................................................................................. 27
Factors to consider before replacing hard drives................................................................................ 27
Automatic data recovery (rebuild) .................................................................................................... 27
