6 remove blocked access on a virtual drive, 7 create raid 0 configuration with ssd caching – Avago Technologies MegaRAID Fast Path Software User Manual

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LSI Corporation Confidential

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July 2011

MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide

Chapter 5: MegaRAID Command Tool

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CacheCade Related Options

5.5.6

Remove Blocked Access on a

Virtual Drive

Use this command in the following table to change the access policy for a virtual drive
by removing a blocked access on that virtual drive. At times, an error may occur in the
CacheCade Pro 2.0 virtual drive and this causes a blocked access to the associated
virtual drive.

5.5.7

Create RAID 0 Configuration

with SSD Caching

Use this command in the following table to create virtual drives with RAID 0
configurations and enable SSD caching on them

Table 31: Remove Blocked Access on a Virtual Drive

Convention

MegaCLI -LDSetProp {-Name LdNamestring} |
-RW|RO|Blocked|RemoveBlocked | WT|WB|ForcedWB
[-Immediate]|RA|NORA|ADRA …………. -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL

Description

Allows you to change the following virtual drive parameters:

[WT|WB|ForcedWB]:

Specifies the write policy- WT (Write Through, WB

(Write Back), ForcedWB (Forced Write Back). If you specify the ForcedWB
parameter, the write policy will always be writeback, even if the virtual drive
becomes degraded.

-Immediate

: Indicates that the changes take place immediately.

-NORA

(No read ahead), RA (Read ahead), ADRA (Adaptive read ahead): Selects

read policy.

-Cached

, -Direct: Selects cache policy.

-CachedBadBBU|NoCachedBadBBU

: Specifies whether to use write cache

when the BBU is bad.

-RW

, -RO, Blocked: Selects access policy.

-RemoveBlocked

: Removes the blocked access on the associated virtual

drive.

-EnDskCache

: Enables drive cache.

-DisDskCache

: Disables drive cache.

Table 32: Create RAID 0 Configuration with SSD Caching

Convention

MegaCLI -CfgEachDskRaid0 [WT|WB] [NORA|RA|ADRA]
[Direct|Cached] [CachedBadBBU|NoCachedBadBBU]
[-strpszM]|[FDE|CtrlBased] [-Default| -Automatic|
-None| -Maximum|-MaximumWithoutCaching] [-Cache]
-aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL

Description

Creates virtual drives with RAID 0 and enables SSD caching on these newly
created virtual drives.

-WT

(Write through), WB (Write back): Selects write policy.

-NORA

(No read ahead), RA (Read ahead), ADRA (Adaptive read ahead):

Selects read policy.

-Cached

, -Direct: Selects cache policy.

-CachedBadBBU|NoCachedBadBBU

: Specifies whether to use write cache

when the BBU is bad.

[-Default| -Automatic| -None| -Maximum|
-MaximumWithoutCaching]

: If the controller supports power savings on

virtual disk, these options specify the possible levels of power savings that can
be applied on a virtual disk.

[-Cache]:

Specifies that SSD caching is enabled.

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