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Manual installation on Windows Server ..................................................................................................... 45
Manual installation on Windows Server 2003 .................................................................................. 46
Manual installation on Windows Server 2008 .................................................................................. 47
Upgrading the device firmware using Windows .......................................................................................... 47
Checking for outdated or old firmware ............................................................................................. 47
Viewing the firmware version .......................................................................................................... 48
Performing the upgrade .................................................................................................................. 48
Upgrading driver software using Windows ................................................................................................. 49
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non-RAID configuration ............................................... 49
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID configuration ..................................................... 49
Defragmentation ..................................................................................................................................... 50
IO Accelerator naming ............................................................................................................................. 50
Adding a file system, formatting, and performing multi-disk configuration ....................................................... 51
Creating a RAID configuration .................................................................................................................. 52
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system ............................................................... 52
Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems ....................................................................................... 52
SNMP details for Windows operating systems ................................................................................... 52
Using test mode registry values ........................................................................................................ 53
SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Server ................................................................................... 54
Using installation logs .............................................................................................................................. 56
Windows Installer logging options ................................................................................................... 57
Creating an installation log ............................................................................................................. 57
Creating an uninstall log ................................................................................................................ 58
Creating a patch install log ............................................................................................................. 58
Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy ............................................................ 58
Troubleshooting event log messages ................................................................................................ 59
VMWare ESX environments ......................................................................................................... 61
Creating the ESX IO Accelerator driver CD ................................................................................................. 61
Installing the driver as part of a new ESX installation .................................................................................... 61
Installing the driver using vihostupdate ....................................................................................................... 61
Installing the driver using esxupdate .......................................................................................................... 62
Installing the IO Accelerator utilities using ESX ............................................................................................ 62
Configuring the IO Accelerator using ESX ................................................................................................... 63
Upgrading the firmware using ESX ............................................................................................................ 64
Working with IO Accelerator devices and PCI pass-through .......................................................................... 64
Using IO Accelerator Duos with PCI pass-through .............................................................................. 64
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with ESX ................................................................................................ 65
Disabling the driver using ESX .................................................................................................................. 65
Enabling the driver using ESX ................................................................................................................... 65
Uninstalling the driver utilities using ESX ..................................................................................................... 65
HP IO Accelerator Management Tool ............................................................................................ 66
Operating system support ......................................................................................................................... 66
Linux ............................................................................................................................................ 66
Windows ..................................................................................................................................... 66
Software installation ................................................................................................................................ 66
Installing software using Linux ......................................................................................................... 66
IO Accelerator management ..................................................................................................................... 67
Device report ................................................................................................................................ 67
Performance report ........................................................................................................................ 69
IO Accelerator Management Tool interface options ............................................................................ 69
Detached IO Accelerator after installation ......................................................................................... 70
Navigating the IO Accelerator Management Tool .............................................................................. 70
