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Contents
Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5
Board components .................................................................................................................................... 5
Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 5
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7
Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 7
Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................ 7
Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................... 9
Before beginning the installation ................................................................................................................. 9
Preparing the server................................................................................................................................... 9
Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9
Connecting storage devices ...................................................................................................................... 10
Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 11
Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 11
Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 12
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 12
Comparing the utilities ............................................................................................................................. 12
Using ORCA........................................................................................................................................... 13
Using ACU ............................................................................................................................................. 14
Using CPQONLIN................................................................................................................................... 14
Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................ 14
Expanding an array....................................................................................................................... 15
Adding or configuring spare drives.................................................................................................. 15
Migrating RAID level and stripe size online....................................................................................... 16
Setting the boot controller and controller order ............................................................................... 17
Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 17
Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................ 17
Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 18
Installing device drivers ............................................................................................................................ 18
Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 18
Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 19
Replacing a battery ................................................................................................................................. 19
Upgrading the cache ............................................................................................................................... 20
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives ..................................................................................... 22
Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 22
Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 23
Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 24
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 24
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 24
Replacing hard drives .............................................................................................................................. 24
Hard drive replacement guidelines .................................................................................................. 25
Automatic data recovery (rebuild) .................................................................................................... 25
Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 27
Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 28
Adding drives ......................................................................................................................................... 28
