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Page 3: Table Of Contents
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Overview ......................12 1.1 SAS Technology .
Page 4 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 2.6 Number of Drives ........................39 Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption .
Page 5 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 4.13.9.1 Setting Advanced Power Save Settings ................85 4.13.10 Managing Power Save Settings for the Drive Group .
Page 6 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 5.5.1.5 Erasing a Virtual Drive ....................134 5.5.1.6 Enabling and Disabling SSD Caching .
Page 7 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 6.6.3.6 Locate Drives Commands ................... . 174 6.6.3.7 Prepare to Remove Drives Commands .
Page 8 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 7.3.4 Installing and Supporting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Solaris 10, 11, and SPARC ....... . 209 7.3.4.1 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Solaris 10 x86 .
Page 9 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 8.5.3 Shield State ....................... . 238 8.5.4 Shield State Physical View .
Page 10 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 10.2 Configuring Alert Notifications ....................293 10.3 Editing Alert Delivery Methods .
Page 11 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Table of Contents March 2014 12.10.5 Modifying a CacheCade Drive Group ..................341 12.10.6 Clearing Configuration on CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drives .
Page 12: Chapter 1: Overview
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 SAS Technology Chapter 1: Overview This chapter provides an overview of this guide, which documents the utilities used to configure, monitor, and maintain MegaRAID® Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers with RAID control capabilities and the storage-related devices connected to them.
Page 13: Serial-Attached Scsi Device Interface
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 Serial-Attached SCSI Device Interface Serial-Attached SCSI Device Interface SAS is a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level device interface that leverages the proven SCSI protocol set. SAS is a convergence of the advantages of SATA II, SCSI, and Fibre Channel, and is the future mainstay of the enterprise and high-end workstation storage markets.
Page 14: Ssd Guard
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 Dimmer Switch Features you can choose whether to mix SAS and SATA HDD drives with SAS and SATA CacheCade software devices in various combinations. NOTE Support for SATA SSD drives applies only to those drives that support ATA-8 ACS compliance.
Page 15 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 Configuration Scenarios These configurations are for both internal connectivity and external connectivity, using SATA II drives, SAS drives, or both. External enclosure management is supported through in-band, SCSI-enclosed storage. The configuration must support STP and SMP.
Page 16: Valid Drive Mix Configurations With Hdds And Ssds
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 Configuration Scenarios Figure 2 Example of an LSI SAS RAID Controller Configured with an LSISASx12 Expander 1.7.1 Valid Drive Mix Configurations with HDDs and SSDs You can allow a virtual drive to consist of both SSDs and HDDs. For virtual drives that have both SSDs and HDDs, you can choose whether to mix SAS drives and SATA drives on the CacheCade software devices.
Page 17: Technical Support
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 1: Overview March 2014 Technical Support Table 1 Valid Drive Mix Configurations Valid Drive Mix Configurations SAS HDD with SAS SSD (SAS-only configuration) SATA HDD with SATA CacheCade software (SATA-only configuration) SAS HDD with a mix of SAS and SATA CacheCade software (a SATA HDD cannot be added) SATA HDD with a mix of SAS and SATA CacheCade software (a SAS HDD cannot be added) SAS CacheCade software with a mix of SAS and SATA HDD (a SATA CacheCade software cannot be added) SATA CacheCade software with a mix of SAS and SATA HDD (a SAS CacheCade software cannot be added)
Page 18: Chapter 2: Introduction To Raid
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID This chapter describes Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), RAID functions and benefits, RAID components, RAID levels, and configuration strategies. In addition, it defines the RAID availability concept, and offers tips for configuration planning.
Page 19: Fault Tolerance
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features a part of a drive group  parts of more than one drive group  a combination of any two of these conditions  2.1.3 Fault Tolerance Fault tolerance is the capability of the subsystem to undergo a drive failure or failures without compromising data...
Page 20: Consistency Check
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features In a system with two ESMs, you can replace one of the ESMs without affecting the virtual drive availability. For example, the controller can run heavy I/Os, and when you replace one of the ESMs, I/Os should not stop. The controller uses different paths to balance the load on the entire system.
Page 21: Background Initialization
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features 2.1.6 Background Initialization Background initialization is a check for media errors on the drives when you create a virtual drive. It is an automatic operation that starts five minutes after you create the virtual drive.
Page 22: Disk Mirroring
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features Stripe Width Stripe width is the number of drives involved in a drive group where striping is implemented. For example, a four-disk drive group with disk striping has a stripe width of four. Stripe Size The stripe size is the length of the interleaved data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives, not including parity drives.
Page 23: Disk Spanning
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features Figure 5 Example of Distributed Parity (RAID 5) 2.1.11 Disk Spanning Disk spanning allows multiple drives to function like one big drive. Spanning overcomes lack of disk space and simplifies storage management by combining existing resources or adding relatively inexpensive resources.
Page 24: Hot Spares
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features Table 3 Spanning for RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 Level Description Configure RAID 00 by spanning two contiguous RAID 0 virtual drives, up to the maximum number of supported devices for the controller.
Page 25: Disk Rebuilds
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features Hot spare drives can be located on any RAID channel. Standby hot spares (not being used in RAID drive group) are polled every 60 seconds at a minimum, and their status made available in the drive group management software. RAID controllers offer the ability to rebuild with a disk that is in a system but not initially set to be a hot spare.
Page 26: Hot Swap
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Components and Features 2.1.15 Hot Swap A hot swap is the manual replacement of a defective drive unit while the computer is still running. When a new drive has been installed, a rebuild occurs automatically if these situation occurs: The newly inserted drive is the same capacity as or larger than the failed drive.
Page 27: Enclosure Management
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 6 Beep Codes, Events, and Virtual Drive States Event Virtual Drive State Beep Code RAID 0 virtual drive loses a virtual drives Offline 3 seconds on and 1 second off RAID 1 loses a mirror drive Degraded 1 second on and 1 second off...
Page 28: Selecting A Raid Level
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels RAID 50, a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 5, uses distributed parity and disk striping. A RAID 50 drive group is a spanned drive group in which data is striped across multiple RAID 5 drive groups. RAID 50 works best with data that requires high reliability, high request rates, high data transfers, and medium-to-large capacity.
Page 29: Raid 1
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 7 RAID 0 Overview Uses Provides high data throughput, especially for large files. Any environment that does not require fault tolerance. Strong points Provides increased data throughput for large files. No capacity loss penalty for parity.
Page 30: Raid 5
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels 2.2.5 RAID 5 RAID 5 includes disk striping at the block level and parity. Parity is the data’s property of being odd or even, and parity checking is used to detect errors in the data.
Page 31: Raid 00
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 10 RAID 6 Overview Uses Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. Strong points Provides data redundancy, high read rates, and good performance in most environments.
Page 32: Raid 10
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 11 RAID 00 Overview Uses Provides high data throughput, especially for large files. Any environment that does not require fault tolerance. Strong points Provides increased data throughput for large files. No capacity loss penalty for parity.
Page 33: Raid 50
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 12 RAID 10 Overview Uses Appropriate when used with data storage that needs 100 percent redundancy of mirrored drive groups and that also needs the enhanced I/O performance of RAID 0 (striped drive groups.) RAID 10 works well for medium-sized databases or any environment that requires a higher degree of fault tolerance and moderate-to-medium capacity.
Page 34: Raid 60
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Levels Table 13 RAID 50 Overview Uses Appropriate when used with data that requires high reliability, high request rates, high data transfer, and medium-to-large capacity. Strong points Provides high data throughput, data redundancy, and very good performance.
Page 35: Raid Configuration Strategies
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Configuration Strategies Table 14 RAID 60 Overview Uses Provides a high level of data protection through the use of a second parity block in each stripe. Use RAID 60 for data that requires a very high level of protection from loss.
Page 36: Maximizing Fault Tolerance
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Configuration Strategies 2.3.1 Maximizing Fault Tolerance Fault tolerance is achieved through the ability to perform automatic and transparent rebuilds using hot spare drives and hot swaps. A hot spare drive is an unused online available drive that the RAID controller instantly plugs into the system when an active drive fails.
Page 37: Maximizing Storage Capacity
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Configuration Strategies Table 16 RAID Levels and Performance RAID Performance Level RAID 0 (striping) offers excellent performance. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the drive group.
Page 38: Raid Availability
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 RAID Availability Table 17 RAID Levels and Capacity RAID Capacity Level RAID 0 (striping) involves partitioning each drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size. The combined storage space is composed of stripes from each drive.
Page 39: Configuration Planning
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Configuration Planning NOTE If a rebuild to a hot spare fails for any reason, the hot spare drive will be marked as “failed. ” If the source drive fails, both the source drive and the hot spare drive will be marked as “failed.
Page 40: March
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID March 2014 Number of Drives Table 18 Factors to Consider for Drive Group Configuration Requirement Rank Suggested RAID Levels Storage space RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 00 Data redundancy RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60 Drive performance and throughput RAID 0, RAID 00, RAID 10...
Page 41: Chapter 3: Safestore Disk Encryption
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption March 2014 Terminology Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption This chapter describes the LSI SafeStore Disk Encryption service. The SafeStore Disk Encryption service is a collection of features within LSI storage products that supports self-encrypting disks. SafeStore encryption services supports local key management.
Page 42: Workflow
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption March 2014 Workflow Table 19 Terminology used in FDE Option Description Authenticated Mode The RAID configuration is keyed to a user password. The password must be provided on system boot to authenticate the user and facilitate unlocking the configuration for user access to the encrypted data.
Page 43: Change Security
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption March 2014 Workflow When you use the specified security key identifier, security key, and password, security is enabled on the controller. 3.2.2 Change Security You can change the security settings on the controller, and you have the option to change the security key identifier, security key, and password.
Page 44: Import A Foreign Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption March 2014 Instant Secure Erase 3.2.4 Import a Foreign Configuration After you create a security key, you can run a scan for a foreign configuration and import a locked configuration. (You can import unsecured or unlocked configurations when security is disabled.) A foreign configuration is a RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system.
Page 45 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 3: SafeStore Disk Encryption March 2014 Instant Secure Erase If the drive is beginning to show SMART predictive failure alerts, return the drive for replacement. If so, the drive must be effectively erased if there is sensitive data. Occasionally a drive is in such bad condition that standard erasure applications do not work.
Page 46: Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Overview Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility This chapter describes the Ctrl-R Utility, a BIOS configuration utility, that lets you create and manage RAID configurations on LSI SAS controllers. You can configure the drive groups and drives on the system before the operating system has been installed.
Page 47: Ctrl-R Utility Keystrokes
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Ctrl-R Utility Keystrokes Ctrl-R Utility Keystrokes The following table lists the keystrokes that you can use in the Ctrl-R Utility to navigate between the screens. Table 20 Ctrl-R Utility Keystrokes Keystroke Action Displays help for the particular screen that you are in.
Page 48: Pd Mgmt Menu
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Ctrl-R Utility Menus Figure 15 VD Mgmt This screen shows information on the configuration of controllers, drive groups, and virtual drives. The right panel of the screen shows attributes of the selected device. In the Virtual Drive Management screen, you can perform tasks, such as creating and initializing virtual drives;...
Page 49: Ctrl Mgmt Menu
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Ctrl-R Utility Menus Figure 16 Physical Drive Management The right panel of the screen shows additional attributes of the selected device. In the Drive Management screen, you can perform tasks, such as rebuilding a failed drive, making a drive offline, or making it a global hot spare drive.
Page 50: Properties Menu
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Ctrl-R Utility Menus Figure 17 Controller Settings – First Screen In the second screen (as shown in the following figure), you can perform tasks, such as changing the link speed, the power save, and the battery settings of the controller.
Page 51: Foreign View Menu
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Ctrl-R Utility Menus Figure 19 Properties To view additional properties, you can navigate to Next and press Enter. The second Properties screen shows information, such as maximum cache size, drive standby time, and power saving properties. To go back to the previous Properties screen, navigate to Prev, and press Enter.
Page 52: Managing Software Licensing
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Software Licensing Figure 20 Foreign View Menu You can use the Foreign Config View screen to view information about the foreign configuration, such as drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, and hot spares. The Foreign View menu lets you import foreign configurations to the RAID controller or clear the foreign configurations.
Page 53 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Software Licensing Figure 21 Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options The Activated MegaRAID Advanced Software Options box contains the Adv SW Option and License columns. The Adv SW Option column shows the list of advanced software features available in the controller. —...
Page 54 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Software Licensing If you want to deactivate the software that is being used with a trial key, press Yes. — If you do not want to deactivate the software, press No. —...
Page 55: Managing Advanced Software Summary
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Software Licensing Figure 25 Activation Key Mismatch Message 4.6.2 Managing Advanced Software Summary When you click Activate in Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options dialog, the Advanced Software Options Summary dialog appears, as shown in the following figure.
Page 56: Activating An Unlimited Key Over A Trial Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Software Licensing 4.6.3 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key When you activate an unlimited key over a trial key, the following dialog appears. Figure 27 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key 4.6.4 Activating a Trial Software When you activate a trial software, the following dialog appears.
Page 57: Activating An Unlimited Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration 4.6.5 Activating an Unlimited Key When you activate an unlimited key, the following dialog appears. Figure 29 Activating an Unlimited Key Creating a Storage Configuration You can use the Ctrl-R Utility to configure RAID drive groups and virtual drives to create storage configurations on systems with LSI SAS controllers.
Page 58 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 30 Create a New Virtual Drive NOTE If your system detects any JBODs the Convert JBOD to Unconfigured Good dialog ( Figure 49 on page 76) appears before the Create New VD dialog.
Page 59: Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration You may press Advanced to set additional properties for the newly created virtual drive. For more information, Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties on page 59. 10.
Page 60: Creating A Cachecade Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Write Back with BBU – In this mode, the controller enables write back caching when the BBU is installed and — charged. This option provides a good balance between data protection and performance. NOTE The write policy depends on the status of the BBU.
Page 61 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 32 Create CacheCade Virtual Drive Enter a name for the CacheCade virtual drive in the Name field. Select a SSD from the Select SSD box. The size of the SSD is reflected in the Size field (in the Basic Settings box). Press OK.
Page 62: Modifying A Cachecade Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 33 Associated Virtual Drives You can view the ID, the name, and the size of the associated virtual drives. 4.7.3 Modifying a CacheCade Virtual Drive You can modify an existing CacheCade virtual drive by renaming it.
Page 63: Creating A Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 34 Modifying CacheCade Virtual Drive You can rename a CacheCade virtual drive in the CacheCade Virtual Drive Name field. Press OK. 4.7.4 Creating a CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive The MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 provides you with read and write capability.
Page 64: Modifying A Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Enter a name for the CacheCade virtual drive in the Name field. Select a SSD from the Select SSD box. Press OK. A message appears, stating that the CacheCade virtual drive has been created. 4.7.5 Modifying a CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive You can modify the name and the write policy of an existing CacheCade virtual drive any time after a CacheCade...
Page 65: Enabling Ssd Caching On A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Figure 37 Associated Virtual Drives You can view the ID, the name, and the size of the associated virtual drives. 4.7.6 Enabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive You can enable SSD caching on a virtual drive.
Page 66: Enabling Or Disabling Ssd Caching On Multiple Virtual Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Creating a Storage Configuration Perform the following steps to enable SSD Caching on a virtual drive: In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a virtual drive. and press the F2 key. Select Disable Caching and press Enter.
Page 67: Deleting A Virtual Drive With Ssd Caching Enabled
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Clearing the Configuration 4.7.9 Deleting a Virtual Drive with SSD Caching Enabled You can delete a virtual drive that has SSD caching enabled on it. Perform the following steps to delete the virtual drive: In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a virtual drive.
Page 68: Lsi Safestore Encryption Services
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 42 Clear Configuration Press Yes to delete all the virtual drives. LSI SafeStore Encryption Services LSI SafeStore Encryption Services can encrypt data on the drives and use the drive-based key management to provide data security.
Page 69: Changing Security Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 43 Create Security Key Either use the default security key identifier, or enter a new security key identifier. NOTE After you create a security key, the Enable Security option is disabled. This option is reenabled only after you delete the existing key.
Page 70: Disabling Drive Security
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 44 Change Security Key Either keep the existing security key identifier, or enter a new security key identifier. NOTE If you change the security key, you need to change the security key identifier.
Page 71: Importing Or Clearing A Foreign Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services Perform the following steps to disable drive security: In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to the controller, and press the F2 key. Navigate to Drive Security, and press Enter. Select Disable Security.
Page 72 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 45 Foreign Configuration Options Navigate to the command you want to perform. To import a foreign configuration, go to step 4. — To clear a foreign configuration, go to step 6. —...
Page 73: Foreign Configurations In Cable Pull And Drive Removal Scenarios
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services NOTE When you create a new configuration, the Ctrl-R Utility shows only the unconfigured drives. Drives that have existing configurations, including foreign configurations, do not appear. To use drives with existing configurations, you first must clear the configuration on those drives.
Page 74: Discarding Preserved Cache
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Discarding Preserved Cache NOTE Start a consistency check immediately after the rebuild is complete, to ensure data integrity for the virtual drives. Scenario 3: If all the drives in a virtual drive are removed, but at different times, and reinserted, the controller ...
Page 75: Converting Jbod Drives To Unconfigured Good Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good Drives Figure 48 Manage Preserved Cache Press Discard Cacheto discard the preserved cache from the virtual drive. A message box appears, asking you to confirm your choice.
Page 76: Converting Unconfigured Good Drives To Jbod Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Converting Unconfigured Good Drives to JBOD Drives Figure 49 Convert JBOD to Unconfigured Good Select the JBODs which you want configured as Unconfigured Good drives. To select or deselect all the JBODs at one go, select the top most square brackets in the JBOD Drives box. Press OK.
Page 77: Viewing And Changing Device Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 50 Convert Unconfigured Good to JBOD Select the Unconfigured Good drives which you want configured as JBODs. To select or deselect all the Unconfigured Good drives at one go, select the top most square brackets in the Unconfig good drives box.
Page 78: Modifying Controller Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties The information in the Properties screen (Figure 19 on page 51) is read only. Most of this information is self-explanatory. To view additional properties, navigate to Next, and press Enter. 4.13.2 Modifying Controller Properties You can change the properties of the controller in the Ctrl Mgmt menu.
Page 79 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Table 21 Controller Settings Options Descriptions Alarm Control Select this option to enable, disable, or silence the onboard alarm tone generator on the controller. Coercion Mode Use this option to force drives of varying capacities to the same size so they can be used in a drive group.
Page 80: Viewing And Changing Virtual Drive Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Options Descriptions Manage Battery Use this option to view information about the BBU, if the selected controller has a BBU. Emergency Spare Use this option to commission unconfigured good drives or global hotspares as emergency spare drives.
Page 81: Deleting A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 52 Create Virtual Drive- Advanced You can view the virtual drive policies that were defined when the storage configuration was created. You can also select Initialize and/or Configure Hot Spare to initialize the newly created virtual drive or to configure the virtual drive as a hot spare, respectively.
Page 82: Erasing A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Perform the following steps to expand the size of a virtual drive: In the VD Mgmt screen, select the virtual drive whose size you want to expand and press the F2 key. Navigate to Expand VD, and press Enter.
Page 83: Managing Link Speed
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Stop Erase: Stops the erase operation that has already been started. This option is disabled at first. Once the — erase operation begins, this option is enabled. Select a mode and press Enter.
Page 84: Managing Power Save Settings For The Controller
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 55 Manage Link Speed The SAS Address column shows the SAS address that uniquely identifies a device in the SAS domain. — The Phy column shows the system-supported phy link values.
Page 85: Setting Advanced Power Save Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 56 Manage Power Save Select the Spin down Unconfigured drives check box to let the controller enable the unconfigured drives to enter the Power-Save mode. Select the Spin down Hot Spares check box to let the controller enable the Hot spare drives to enter the Power-Save mode.
Page 86: Managing Power Save Settings For The Drive Group
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Figure 57 Manage Power Save – Advanced Perform one of these two actions: Specify a start and end time, for the drives to be in active state, in the Start Time and End Time fields, —...
Page 87: Managing Bbu Information
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 4.13.11 Managing BBU Information If your SAS controller has a BBU, you can view information about it and change some settings. A learning cycle is a battery calibration operation that the controller performs periodically to determine the condition of the battery.
Page 88: Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties Press OK to change the learn mode. 4.13.12 Managing Dedicated Hot Spares A dedicated hot spare is used to replace failed drives only in a selected drive group that contains the hot spare. You can create or delete dedicated hot spares in the Virtual Drive Management screen.
Page 89: Setting Led Blinking
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 4.13.14 Setting LED Blinking You can use the Locate option to make the LEDs blink on the physical drives used by a virtual drive. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Page 90: Managing Storage Configurations
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Storage Configurations 4.14 Managing Storage Configurations This section describes how to use the Ctrl-R Utility to maintain and manage storage configurations. 4.14.1 Initializing a Virtual Drive When you create a new virtual drive, the Ctrl-R Utility asks whether you would like to initialize the virtual drive. If you do not want to initialize the virtual drive at that stage, you can initialize the drive later.
Page 91: Rebuilding A Physical Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Storage Configurations CAUTION Make sure to back up the data before you run a consistency check, if you think the data might be corrupted. Perform the following steps to run a consistency check: Navigate to a virtual drive in the VD Mgmt screen, and press the F2 key.
Page 92: Removing A Physical Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Storage Configurations The following dialog appears. Figure 64 Copyback Operation Select the replacement drive to which you want the data copied. Press OK. The copyback operation is performed on the selected drive. 4.14.5 Removing a Physical Drive You might sometimes need to remove a non-failed drive that is connected to the controller.
Page 93: Removing A Hot Spare Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Storage Configurations 4.14.7 Removing a Hot Spare Drive Perform these steps to remove a hot spare drive: Navigate to the Drive Management screen, navigate to a hot spare drive that you want to remove, and press the F2 key.
Page 94 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility March 2014 Managing Storage Configurations For Non–SEDs, the erase operation consists of a series of write operations to a drive that overwrites every user-accessible sector of the drive with specified patterns. It can be repeated in multiple passes using different data patterns for enhanced security.
Page 95: Chapter 5: The Hii Configuration Utility
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Starting the HII Configuration Utility Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility The LSI MegaRAID Human Interface Infrastructure (HII) configuration utility is a tool for configuring controllers, physical disks, and virtual disks, and for performing other configuration tasks in a pre-boot, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) environment.
Page 96: Critical Boot Error Message
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Critical Boot Error Message Select Controller Management to view and manage controller properties and to perform tasks such as — clearing configurations, scheduling and running controller events, and running patrol reads. For more information, see Managing Controllers.
Page 97: Creating A Virtual Drive From A Profile
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Figure 66 Configuration Management The following sections explain each configuration management option. NOTE Only the first two menu options appear if no virtual drives have been created on this controller.
Page 98 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations You can create a virtual drive by using the profile shown in the previous figure. The following table describes the profile options. LSI Corporation - 98 -...
Page 99 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Table 22 Virtual Drive Creation Profile Options Option Description Drive Selection Criteria You need to select one of the various combinations of options that exist. If only one option is possible, only one option appears.
Page 100: Manually Creating A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Option Description Disk Cache Policy Displays the virtual drive cache setting. The possible options are Unchanged, Enable, and Disable. Default Initialization Displays the virtual drive initialization setting. The Default Initialization displays the following options: ...
Page 101 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations If protection is enabled, highlight the Protect Virtual Drive . This field is not available unless the protection feature is already supported by the controller. Highlight the Select Drives From field, press Enter, and select Unconfigured Capacity or Free Capacity.
Page 102 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Alternatively, use the Select All and Deselect All options at the bottom of the list of drives to select or deselect all available drives. If you select drives of varying sizes, the usable space on each drive is restricted to the size of the smallest selected drive.
Page 103 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Table 23 Virtual Drive Policies Property Description Strip Size The virtual drive strip size per DDF. The possible values are as follows:  0: 512 bytes 1: 1 KB ...
Page 104: Creating A Cachecade Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Table 24 RAID Levels Level Description RAID 0 Uses data striping on two or more drives to provide high data throughput, especially for large files in an environment that requires no data redundancy.
Page 105: Viewing Drive Group Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Write Through: The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the virtual drive has — received all of the data and has completed the write transaction to the drive. Write Back: The controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has —...
Page 106: Clearing A Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Figure 71 View Global Hot Spare Drives Press Esc to exit this window when you are finished viewing information. 5.3.6 Clearing a Configuration A Warning message dialog appears when you select Clear Configuration from the Configuration Management menu.
Page 107: Make Unconfigured Good
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations NOTE If the controller supports JBOD drives, you can also change the status of JBOD drives to Unconfigured Good when you create a new configuration using the Create Configuration option.
Page 108: Previewing And Importing A Foreign Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Figure 73 Manage Foreign Configuration A foreign configuration is a virtual disk that was created on another controller, and whose member drives have been moved to this controller.
Page 109 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Configurations Figure 74 Enter Security Key for Locked Drives To successfully import the foreign configuration, follow the directions in the message. Perform these steps to preview and import a foreign configuration. Highlight Preview Foreign Configuration on the Manage Foreign Configuration menu and press Enter.
Page 110: Clearing A Foreign Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 76 Preview Configuration Window 2 Review the information listed on the window. Highlight Import Foreign Configuration and press Enter. A warning message appears indicating that the foreign configuration from the physical drives will merge with the existing configuration.
Page 111 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers To update the controller’s firmware, highlight Firmware Update and press Enter. For more information, see  Upgrading the Firmware. To discard the preserved cache for the selected controller, highlight Discard Preserved Cache, press Enter. If any ...
Page 112: Viewing Advanced Controller Management Options
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Table 25 Basic Controller Properties Property Description Product Name The marketing name of the controller. Serial Number The serial number of the controller. Controller Status The cumulative status of virtual drives and physical drives connected to the controller, plus the backup battery, the enclosure and the NVDATA.
Page 113: Viewing Advanced Controller Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Table 26 Controller Management Options Property Description Clear Controller Events Clears entries from the log. Save Controller Events Saves the controller log entries to a file . Save TTY Log Saves a copy of the firmware’s terminal log entries for the controller.
Page 114 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 79 Advanced Controller Properties This dialog lists numerous properties that cannot all be shown in one dialog. Scroll down to view all of the options. NOTE The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display in one dialog.
Page 115: Managing Megaraid Advanced Software Options
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Table 27 Advanced Controller Properties Property Description Alarm Control Enables or disables the controller alarm. Auto Import Foreign Enables or disables the automatic import of foreign configurations without any user intervention. Configuration Boot Mode Specifies the option for handling errors that the firmware might encounter during boot.
Page 116: Scheduling A Consistency Check
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 80 Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options This dialog lists fields that cannot all be shown in one dialog. Scroll down to view all of the fields. NOTE The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display in one dialog.
Page 117: Saving Or Clearing Controller Events
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers (Optional) To exclude specified virtual drives from consistency checks, highlight the Exclude Virtual Drives field and press Enter. The Exclude Virtual Drives dialog appears, listing the virtual drives defined on this controller. You might want to exclude a virtual drive from a consistency check if, for example, you are running some operation on the drive and you do not want it to be interrupted by a consistency check.
Page 118: Enabling Or Disabling Drive Security
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers To save the controller events file to a different directory from the one listed in the Select Directory field, highlight the current directory name and press Enter. Select a directory name from the pop-up menu and press Enter.
Page 119 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 83 Enable Drive Security The highlighted field is the security key identifier, which appears whenever you need to enter the security key. If you have more than one security key, the identifier helps you determine which security key to enter.
Page 120: Changing A Security Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 84 Disable Drive Security Warning Read the warning and be sure you understand what will happen if you disable the drive security. Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to select it. Highlight Yes and press Enter.
Page 121: Saving The Tty Log
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers By default, the same security key identifier is retained. To change the security key identifier, press the spacebar to deselect Use the Existing Security Key Identifier. Highlight the Enter a New Security Key Identifier field, press Enter, and enter the new security key identifier in the popup window.
Page 122: Managing And Changing Link Speeds
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 86 Save TTY Log Follow these steps to save the TTY log entries to a file. To select a different file system from the one listed in the File Systems field, highlight the current file system name, and press Enter.
Page 123: Setting Cache And Memory Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 87 Manage Link Speed Follow these steps to change the link speed for one or more phys: Highlight the field to the right of the phy number and press Enter. Select an option from the pop-up menu.
Page 124: Running A Patrol Read
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Follow these steps to set cache and memory properties: To discard the preserved cache for the controller, highlight Discard Preserved Cache and press Enter. NOTE If any foreign configurations exist, import them before discarding the preserved cache.
Page 125: Changing Power Save Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Disabled: Patrol read does not run. — To specify a rate for the percentage of system resources dedicated to perform a patrol read operation on configured drives, highlight Rate, specify a rate as a numeric value and press Enter.
Page 126: Setting Emergency Spare Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers To enable or disable spinning down of configured drives, highlight Spin Down Configured Drives and press Enter. Select either Enabled or Disabled and press Enter. To specify a drive’s idle time, after which the drive goes into the power save mode, highlight Drive Standby Time and press Enter.
Page 127: Changing Task Rates
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Follow these steps to set emergency spare properties: To specify whether it is acceptable to commission otherwise incompatible global hot spare drive and/or unconfigured good drives as emergency hot spare drives, highlight Emergency Spare and press Enter. Select any of the following modes and press Enter.
Page 128: Upgrading The Firmware
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers NOTE You can only view the properties/options supported by your controller. To change the percentage of system resources dedicated to performing a BGI on a redundant virtual drive, highlight Background Initialization <BGI>...
Page 129 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Controllers Figure 93 Controller Firmware Update Follow these steps to upgrade the firmware: To specify the file system where the.rom update file resides, highlight Select File System and press Enter. Select the file system and press Enter.
Page 130: Managing Virtual Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives Click Yes to continue with the firmware update. Once the controller is successfully updated with the new firmware code, a message box appears stating the same. Highlight OK and press Enter in the message box to return to the Controller Management dialog.
Page 131: Selecting Virtual Drive Operations
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives Table 28 Basic Virtual Drive Properties Property Description Name The name assigned to the virtual drive. To assign a name or to change the name, highlight the field, press Enter, and type the new name in the popup window.
Page 132: Deleting A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives To stop the LEDs from flashing, access the popup menu again, highlight Stop Locate, and press Enter. Highlight the word Go that appears beneath Operation and press Enter. A Success message appears.
Page 133 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives Figure 98 Reconfigure Virtual Drives To change the RAID level of the selected virtual drive, highlight New RAID Level and press Enter. Select a RAID level from the popup menu. To add physical drives to the selected virtual drive, highlight Add Drives and press Enter.
Page 134: Initializing A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives The choices are HDD and SSD. Combining HDDs and SSDs in a virtual drive is not supported. (Optional) To change the default Select Interface Type value, highlight this field, press Enter, and select an option from the pop-up menu.
Page 135: Enabling And Disabling Ssd Caching
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives NOTE After the data is erased, you have the option of keeping the blank virtual drive, which you can use to store other data, or deleting the virtual drive completely.
Page 136: Expanding A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives The Progress indicator in the dialog shows the percentage progress of the consistency check. To refresh the indicator, exit the dialog and re-enter it. To stop or suspend the consistency check, highlight Stop or Suspend and press Enter.
Page 137: Viewing Associated Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives Figure 100 Manage CacheCade Virtual Drive Window This window lists basic information about the CacheCade virtual drive, including name, RAID level, status, and size. You can select and run the following operations on a CacheCade virtual drive: Start Locate/Stop Locate: Use this option to flash the light on the SSD used for the CacheCade virtual drive.
Page 138 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives NOTE The properties and options shown in the dialog apply to the currently selected virtual drive. To manage properties for a different virtual drive, press Esc until you return to the Virtual Drive Selection menu, select the desired virtual drive, and navigate back to this dialog.
Page 139 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Virtual Drives NOTE The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display in one dialog. The amount of information that can be displayed in one dialog depends on the capabilities of the HII browser.
Page 140: Managing Physical Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives Table 30 Virtual Drive Policies Property Description Access The access policy for the virtual drive. The options are Read/Write, Read Only, and Blocked. Current Write Cache Displays the current write cache policy.
Page 141: Performing Drive Operations
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives Figure 103 Drive Management The preceding dialog lists the following basic drive properties for the selected drive: Table 31 Basic Physical Drive Properties Property Description Drive ID...
Page 142: Locating A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives Figure 104 Select Drive Operations Menu Start Locate and Stop Locate are the available options for any selected drive. The other menu options vary based on the status of the drive, which can be Online, Offline, JBOD, Unconfigured Good, Unconfigured Bad, Global Hot Spare, and Dedicated Hot Spare.
Page 143: Replacing A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives drive state is exposed to the host operating system as a stand-alone drive. You cannot use the JBOD drives to create a RAID configuration, because they do not have valid DDF records. You must first, convert the drives into Unconfigured Good.
Page 144: Placing A Drive Offline
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives Highlight Replace Drive and press Enter. A success message appears, and the replacement process begins as the data on the drive is rebuilt on the replacement drive.
Page 145: Assigning A Dedicated Hotspare Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives 5.6.1.7 Assigning a Dedicated Hotspare Drive Dedicated hotspare drives provide protection to one or more specified redundant virtual drives on the controller. If you select an Unconfigured Good drive, you have the option of assigning it as a dedicated spare drive.
Page 146: Initializing Or Erasing A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives The Unassign Hotspare Drive warning message appears. Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation. Highlight Yes and press Enter. A confirmation message appears. Click OK to return to the Drive Management menu.
Page 147: Rebuilding A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives To stop the initialization or erase process, highlight Stop and press Enter. NOTE To refresh the progress indicator, press Esc to exit this dialog, then open it again.
Page 148 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Physical Drives Figure 108 Advanced Drive Properties 1 The small red arrow at the bottom of the dialog indicates that you can scroll down to view more physical drive properties.
Page 149: Managing Hardware Components
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components Table 32 Advanced Drive Properties Property Description Certified Indicates whether the selected drive is vendor-certified. In some configurations you can only use certified drives to create configurations. Logical Sector Size The logical sector size of this drive.
Page 150 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components Figure 109 Hardware Components Menu The preceding figure lists the status of the temperature sensors, fans, power supplies, and other hardware components (such as batteries) installed in the system. Select Advanced and press Enter to view more detailed information about the installed hardware components.
Page 151: Managing Batteries
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components 5.7.1 Managing Batteries The following dialog appears when you select Battery Management on the Advanced Hardware Components menu. Figure 111 Battery Management The following table describes the basic battery properties. Table 33 Basic Battery Management Properties Property Description...
Page 152 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components Figure 112 Advanced Battery Management The small red arrow at the bottom of the dialog indicates that you can scroll down to view more Advanced Battery Management properties.
Page 153: Setting Automatic Learn Cycle Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components Table 34 Advanced Battery Management Properties Property Description Start Manual Learn Cycle* Highlight this field and press Enter to start a manual battery learn cycle. Set Automatic Learn Cycle Highlight this field and press Enter to set the properties for an automatic battery learn cycle.
Page 154 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility March 2014 Managing Hardware Components To view more information about the enclosure status, highlight View Enclosure Status and press Enter. The following dialog appears. Figure 113 View Enclosure Status The View Enclosure Status dialog shows information about the temperature sensors, fans, and power supplies installed in the selected enclosure.
Page 155: Chapter 6: Storcli
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Overview Chapter 6: StorCLI Overview The Storage Command Line Tool (StorCLI) is the command line management software designed for the MegaRAID product line. The StorCLI is a command line interface that is designed to be easy to use, consistent, and easy to script. This chapter provides information on installing and using the StorCLI and explains the various features of the StorCLI.
Page 156: Installing Storcli On Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Installation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (32/64 bit)  SLES 11 SP3  Fedora Core Linux 15  Fedora 18  VMware® ESX 4.0  VMware ESX 4.1 U2 ...
Page 157: Installing Storcli On Vmware Operating Systems
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 StorCLI Command Syntax NOTE Run all the commands using the super user (sudo) login. Run the command sudo dpkg -i storcli_1.0_all.deb for installing the Debian package. Run the command dpkg -l | grep -i storcli for verifying if the Debian package was installed successfully or not.
Page 158 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 StorCLI Command Syntax NOTE JSON format output is not supported in the EFI operating system. The EFI platform ignores the J when it is added at the end of the command syntax.
Page 159: Working With The Storage Command Line Tool
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 36 Verbs in the StorCli Command Syntax Verbs Description This verb adds virtual drives, JBODs, and so on to the object identifier. This verb deletes a drive, value, or property of the object identifier.
Page 160: Controller Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool The detailed description for each command follows. storcli show This command shows a summary of controller and controller-associated information for the system. The summary includes the number of controllers, the host name, the operating system information, and the overview of existing configuration.
Page 161 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx show alarm storcli /cx show backplane storcli /cx show batterywarning storcli /cx show bgirate storcli /cx show bootwithpinnedcache storcli /cx show cachebypass storcli /cx show cacheflushint storcli /cx show ccrate storcli /cx show coercion...
Page 162 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx set alarm=<on|off|silence> storcli /cx set batterywarning=<on|off> storcli /cx set bgirate=<value> storcli /cx set bootwithpinnedcache=<on|off> storcli /cx set cachebypass=<on|off> storcli /cx set cacheflushinterval=<value>...
Page 163 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 38 Properties for Show and Set Commands Property Name Set Command Range Description Aborts consistency check when it detects an abortcconerror on|off inconsistency.
Page 164: Controller Show Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Property Name Set Command Range Description Dimmer Switch Commands. Dimmer Switch Commands. dimmerswitch|ds Imports foreign configuration automatically, at foreignautoimport on|off boot. Enables/disables JBOD mode; by default, drives jbod on|off become system drives.Not supported by all...
Page 165: Controller Background Tasks Operation Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool The detailed description for each command follows. storcli /cx show This command shows the summary of the controller information. The summary includes basic controller information, foreign configurations, drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, enclosures, and BBU information.
Page 166 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx resume patrolread storcli /cx set patrolread ={{on mode=<auto|manual>}|{off}} storcli /cx set patrolread [starttime=<yyyy/mm/dd hh>] [maxconcurrentpd=<value>] [includessds=<on|off>] [uncfgareas=<on|off>] storcli /cx set patrolread delay=<value>...
Page 167 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx show patrolRead This command shows the current state of the patrol read along with other details such as the PR Mode, PR Execution Delay, PR iterations completed, and PR on SSD.
Page 168: Premium Feature Key Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 40 Set CC Input Options Option Value Range Description seq: Sequential mode. Sets CC to either sequential mode, or concurrent mode, or turns off the CC. conc: Concurrent mode.
Page 169: Controller Security Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 41 Set Advanced Software Options Input Options Option Value Range Description 40 alpha numeric characters. Key to activate ASO on the controller. NOTE After they are activated, ASOs cannot be removed from the controller.
Page 170: Flashing Controller Firmware Command
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 42 Set Security Key Input Options Option Value Range Description Should have a combination of numbers, String that is linked to the controller and is used in the next passphrase upper case letters, lower case letters and bootup to encrypt the lock key.
Page 171: Drive Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.3 Drive Commands This section describes the drive commands, which provide information and perform actions related to physical drives. The following table describes frequently used virtual drive commands. Table 44 Physical Drives Commands Quick Reference Table Commands Value Range...
Page 172: Missing Drives Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool NOTE The storcli /cx/sx show all command shows tape drives information. 6.6.3.2 Missing Drives Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following commands to mark and replace missing physical drives: storcli /cx[/ex]/sx insert dg=A array=B row=C storcli /cx[/ex]/sx set missing storcli /cx[/ex]/sx set offline...
Page 173: Drive Initialization Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Input example: storcli /c1/e56/s3 set good storcli /cx[/ex]/sx set offline This command changes the drive state to offline. Input example: storcli /c1/e56/s3 set offline storcli /cx[/ex]/sx set online This command changes the drive state to online.
Page 174: Drive Firmware Download Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Input example: storcli /c0/e56/s1 stop initialization 6.6.3.5 Drive Firmware Download Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following command to download drive firmware: storcli /cx[/ex]/sx download src=filepath [satabridge] This command flashes the firmware with the specified file.
Page 175: Drive Security Command
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.3.8 Drive Security Command The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following drive security command: storcli /cx[/ex]/sx show securitykey keyid storcli /cx[/ex]/sx show securitykey keyid This command shows the security key for secured physical drives.
Page 176: Rebuild Drives Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.3.10 Rebuild Drives Commands The following commands rebuild drives in the Storage Command Line Tool: storcli /cx[/ex]/sx pause rebuild storcli /cx[/ex]/sx resume rebuild storcli /cx[/ex]/sx show rebuild storcli /cx[/ex]/sx start rebuild storcli /cx[/ex]/sx stop rebuild...
Page 177: Hot Spare Drive Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool The detailed description for each command follows. NOTE In the copyback commands, cx[/ex]/sx indicates the source drive and eid:sid indicates the target drive. NOTE When a copyback operation is enabled, the alarm continues to beep even after a rebuild is complete;...
Page 178: Virtual Drive Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool NOTE If enclosures are used to connect the physical drives to the controller, specify the enclosure ID in the command. The detailed description for each command follows. storcli /cx[/ex]/sx add hotsparedrive [{dgs=<n|0,1,2...>}] [enclaffinity][nonrevertible] This command creates a hot spare drive.
Page 179 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx add vd raid[0|1|5|6|00|10|50|60][Size=<VD1_Sz>,<VD2_Sz>,..|all] [name=<VDNAME1>,..] drives=e:s|e:s-x,y;e:s-x,y,z [PDperArray=x][SED] [pdcache=on|off|default][pi] [DimmerSwitch(ds)=default|automatic(auto)| none|maximum(max)|MaximumWithoutCaching(maxnocache)]  [wt|wb|awb] [nora|ra] [direct|cached][cachevd] [Strip=<8|16|32|64|128|256|1024>] [AfterVd=X] [Spares = [e:]s|[e:]s-x|[e:]s-x,y] [force][ExclusiveAccess] storcli /cx add vd each raid0 [name=<VDNAME1>,..] [drives=e:s|e:s-x|e:s-x,y] [SED] [pdcache=on|off|default][pi] [DimmerSwitch(ds)=default|automatic(auto)| none|maximum(max)|MaximumWithoutCaching(maxnocache)] [wt|wb|awb] [nora|ra] [direct|cached] [Strip=<8|16|32|64|128|256|1024>][ExclusiveAccess]...
Page 180 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool [wt|*wb |awb] [nora|*ra] [*direct|cached] [Strip=<8|16|32|64|128|256|1024>] [AfterVd=X] [Spares = [e:]s|[e:]s-x|[e:]s-x,y] [force] Table 48 Add RAID Configuration Input Options Option Value Range Description Sets the RAID type of the configuration. raid [0|1|5|6|00|10|50|60].
Page 181: Delete Virtual Drives Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c0 add vd raid10 size=2gb,3gb,4gb names=tmp1,tmp2,tmp3 drives=252:2-3,5,7 pdperarray=2 storcli /cx add vd cc|cachecade raid[0,1,10] drives=[e:]s|[e:]s-x|[e:]s-x,y [[wt|*wb|awb] ] [assignvds=0,1,2] This command creates CacheCade virtual drives and associates existing virtual drives to CacheCade virtual drives. You can use the following options to create the CacheCade virtual drive.
Page 182: Virtual Drive Show Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Input example: storcli /c0/vall del cachecade NOTE This command deletes virtual drives. Data located on these drives will no longer be accessible. storcli /cx/vx|vall del force This command deletes a virtual drive only after the cache flush is completed.
Page 183: Change Virtual Properties Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx show preservedCache This command shows the virtual drive that has preserved cache and whether the virtual drive is offline or missing. Input example: storcli /c0 show preservedCache 6.6.4.5...
Page 184: Virtual Drive Initialization Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c0/v0 set rdcache=nora storcli /cx/vx|vall set ssdcaching=<on|off> This command assigns CacheCade virtual drives. If ssdcaching=off, the CacheCade virtual drive is removed. Input example: storcli /c0/v0 set ssdcaching=on storcli /cx/vx|vall set HostAccess=ExclusiveAccess|SharedAccess...
Page 185: Virtual Drive Erase Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Input example: storcli /c0/v0 stop init 6.6.4.7 Virtual Drive Erase Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following commands to erase virtual drives: storcli /cx/vx erase storcli /cx/vx show erase The detailed description for each command follows.
Page 186: Virtual Drive Consistency Check Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 50 Virtual Drive Migration Command Options Options Value Range Description The RAID level to which the virtual drive must be type =RAID level RAID [0|1|5|6] migrated.
Page 187: Background Initialization Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx/vx pause cc This command pauses an ongoing consistency check process. You can resume the consistency check at a later time. You can run this command only on a virtual drive that has a consistency check operation running.
Page 188: Virtual Drive Expansion Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c0/v0 resume bgi storcli /cx/vx set autobgi=<on|off> This command sets the auto background initialization setting for a virtual drive to on or off. Input example: storcli /c0/v0 set autobgi=on storcli /cx/vx show autobgi...
Page 189: Display The Bad Block Table
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c0/v0 show expansion 6.6.4.12 Display the Bad Block Table The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following command to check for bad block entries of virtual drives on the selected controller: storcli /cx/vx show bbmt Input example:...
Page 190: Bios-Related Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c0/fall show preview storcli /c0/fall import preview storcli /c0/fall show all 6.6.6 BIOS-Related Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following BIOS commands: storcli /cx set bios[state=<on|off>[mode=soe|be|hcoe|hsm][abs=on|off][deviceexposure=<value>] The detailed description for the command follows.
Page 191: Drive Group Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.7 Drive Group Commands This section describes the drive group commands. 6.6.7.1 Drive Group Show Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following drive group commands: storcli /cx/dall show storcli /cx/dall show all storcli /cx/dall show cachecade...
Page 192: Dimmer Switch Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.8 Dimmer Switch Commands 6.6.8.1 Change Virtual Drive Power Settings Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following command to change the Dimmer Switch setting. The Dimmer Switch is the power-saving policy for the virtual drive.
Page 193: Bbu Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool 6.6.9 BBU Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following battery backup unit (BBU) commands: NOTE To increase the life of a battery, the battery is not fully charged. Band Gap charging keeps the maximum battery charge within a band comfortably above the data retention time requirement instead of keeping the battery charged to the maximum level.
Page 194 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool Table 53 BBU Mode Mode Description 48 hours of retention at 60 °C, 1-year Service Life. 12 hours of retention at 45 °C, 5-year Service Life, transparent learn. 12 hours of retention at 55 °C, 3-year Service Life, transparent learn.
Page 195: Cachevault Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx/bbu set learnStartTime=[DDD HH| off] This command sets the learn start time for the BBU in hours on the day specified. DDD refers to the day of the week (SUN,MON,..SAT), HH refers to the hours (0-23 hours), and offsets the learn start to off.
Page 196: Phy Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /cx/ex show status The detailed description for each command follows. storcli /cx/ex download src=filepath [forceactivate] This command flashes the firmware with the file specified at the command line. The enclosure performs an error check after the operation.
Page 197: Logging Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Working with the Storage Command Line Tool storcli /c1/p0 show storcli /cx/px|pall show all This command shows all the PHY layer information. Input example: storcli /c1/p0 show all 6.6.13 Logging Commands The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following commands to generate and maintain log files: storcli /cx clear events...
Page 198: Frequently Used Tasks
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Frequently Used Tasks Input example: storcli /c0 show dequeue log=<c:\test\log.txt> Frequently Used Tasks 6.7.1 Showing the Version of the Storage Command Line Tool The following command shows the version of the command line tool: Storcli -v 6.7.2 Showing StorCLI Help...
Page 199: Setting The Cache Policy In A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Frequently Used Tasks e specifies the enclosure id. — s represents the slot in the enclosure. — e:s-ex is the range conventions used to represents slots s to x in the enclosure e. —...
Page 200 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: StorCLI March 2014 Frequently Used Tasks storcli /cx download file=filepath [fwtype=<value>] [nosigchk] [noverchk][resetnow] For more information, see Flashing Controller Firmware Command. LSI Corporation - 200 -...
Page 201: Chapter 7: Megaraid Storage Manager Overview And Installation
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Overview Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation This chapter provides a brief overview of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software and explains how to install it on the supported operating systems.
Page 202 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Hardware and Software Requirements PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an EM64T (64-bit) processor; also  compatible with SPARC V9 architecture-based systems Minimum 256 MB of system memory (512 MB recommended) ...
Page 203: Installing Megaraid Storage Manager
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager This section explains how to install (or reinstall) the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on your workstation or on your server for the supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Solaris 10 x86, and Solaris SPARC.
Page 204 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Figure 114 Customer Information Window Enter your user name and organization name. In the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: If you select the All users radio button, any user with administrative privileges can use this version of the —...
Page 205 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Figure 115 Destination Folder Window Click Next to continue. The Setup Type window appears, as shown in the following figure. LSI Corporation - 205 -...
Page 206 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Figure 116 Setup Type Window Select one of the setup options. The options are fully explained in the window text. Select the Complete radio button if you are installing the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server.
Page 207 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Figure 117 LDAP Logon Information 10. To specify LDAP configuration details, select Yes, and perform the following substeps, or if you do not want to specify LDAP configuration details, click No and click Next.
Page 208: Setup Options
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Figure 118 Custom Setup Window 14. Click Next to proceed. 15. Click Install to install the program. 16. When the final Configuration Wizard window appears, click Finish. If you select Client installation for a computer that is used to monitor servers, and if no available servers exist with a registered framework on the local subnet (that is, servers with a complete installation of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software), the server window appears.
Page 209: Uninstalling The Megaraid Storage Manager Software On Microsoft Windows
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager NOTE If you select Client or Standalone as your setup option, the LDAP Logon Information dialog appears. Select the Local radio button if you want to view only the workstation that has the MegaRAID Storage Manager ...
Page 210: Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software For Solaris 10 Sparc
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Follow these steps to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running the Solaris 10 x86 operating system: Copy the MegaRaidStorageManager-SOLX86-…..tar.gz file to a temporary folder.
Page 211: Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software On Solaris 10 (U5, U6, U7, U8, U9, And U10), 11 (X86 And X64), And Sparc
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager NOTE LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is not applicable in SPARC. 7.3.5 Uninstalling MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Solaris 10 (U5, U6, U7, U8, U9, and U10), 11 (x86 and x64), and SPARC Follow these steps to uninstall the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Solaris operating systems:...
Page 212 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager NOTE For installing the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a SLES 64-bit platform, you need to create certain symbolic links that are mentioned in Executing a CIM Plug-in on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Copy the MSM_linux_installer-11.02.00-00.tar.gz file to a temporary folder.
Page 213: Linux Error Messages
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager 7.3.8 Linux Error Messages The following messages can appear while you are installing the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Linux operating system: ...
Page 214: Executing A Cim Plug-In On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager If the .so files are not present in the /usr/lib directory, create a link with the existing version of the library. For example, if libcrypto.so.6 is present and libcrypto.so is not, create the link as follows: ln -s libcrypto.so.6 libcrypto.so.4 On a 64-bit operating system, the system libraries are present in the /usr/lib64 directory by default.
Page 215: Stopping The Pop-Up Notification Process
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Supporting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on VMware File names for both entries should not have any spaces. For example, the valid file name would be: ...
Page 216: Prerequisites For Installing Megaraid Storage Manager For Vmware
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Supporting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on VMware 7.4.1 Prerequisites for Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager for VMware For the VMware 3.5 operating system, it is necessary to install libstdc++34-3.4.0-1.i386.rpm before installing the MegaRAID Storage Manager software.
Page 217: Limitations Of Installation And Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Supporting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on VMware The MegaRAID Storage Manager server part cannot be installed directly in the VMware ESXi operating system. Management is performed through the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed on a Linux/Windows machine in the same subnet.
Page 218: Installing And Configuring A Cim Provider
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider Event logging:  Event logging support is available for the VMware ESXi operating system, but it works differently than the normal MegaRAID Storage Manager framework mode.
Page 219: Running The Cim Sas Storage Provider On Pegasus
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider NOTE After you install LSI CIM SAS Provider, the MOF file LSI_SASRaid.mof is available under the /etc/lsi_cimprov/sas/pegasus/common directory. To uninstall a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a Linux system, remove LSI CIM SAS Provider by entering the ...
Page 220: Installing And Configuring An Snmp Agent
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based management application can monitor and manage devices through SNMP extension agents.
Page 221: Configuring Snmp Service On The Server Side
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent Click Next, and follow any prompts to complete the installation procedure. 7.6.2.3 Configuring SNMP Service on the Server Side Perform the following steps to configure SNMP Service on the server side.
Page 222: Installing And Configuring An Snmp Agent On Linux
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent 7.6.4 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on Linux This section explains how to install and configure the SAS SNMP Agent for the SUSE Linux and Red Hat Linux operating systems.
Page 223: Installing And Configuring An Snmp Agent On Solaris
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent NOTE To receive a trap in a local machine with Net-SNMP version 5.3, you must modify the snmptrapd.conf, file (generally located at /var/net-snmp/snmptrapd.conf).
Page 224: Configuring Snmpd.conf
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent Start: # svcadm enable svc:/application/management/sma:default  Stop: # svcadm disable svc:/application/management/sma:default  Restart: # svcadm restart svc:/application/management/sma:default  Status: # svcs svc:/application/management/sma:default ...
Page 225: Configuring Snmp Traps
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent # running snmp agent. # rwcommunity: a SNMPv1/SNMPv2c read-write access # community name # arguments: community # [default|hostname|network/bits] [oid] # rwcommunity snmpclient 172.28.157.149 ################################################# NOTE...
Page 226: Uninstalling The Snmp Package
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 MegaRAID Storage Manager Remotely Connecting to VMware ESX 145.147.201.88:1234 testComm ################################################# NOTE Solaris also supports Custom community support. If in case, ’TrapDestInd’ above is set to 1, IP addresses shall be taken from /etc/sma/snmp/snmpd.conffile in the following format: ’com2sec snmpclient 172.28.157.149 public’...
Page 227 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation March 2014 Prerequisites to Running MegaRAID Storage Manager Remote Administration Make sure Class D multicast IP addresses are registered (at least 229.111.112.12 should be registered for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to work);...
Page 228: Chapter 8: Megaraid Storage Manager Window And Menus
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** Starting the MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This chapter explains how to start the MegaRAID Storage Manager software and describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and menus.
Page 229 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** Discovery and Login Figure 119 Select Server The Select Server dialog shows an icon for each server on which the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is installed. The servers are color-coded with the following definitions: Green: The server is operating properly.
Page 230 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** Discovery and Login Figure 120 Configure Host Select any one of the following options from Display preferences. Display only the local server – Discovers only the local MegaRAID Storage Manager server. —...
Page 231 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** Discovery and Login To abort the discovery process which has already begun, select the Stop discovery process of remote servers check box and click Save Settings. This check box is enabled only when there is a active discovery process. NOTE For the VMware ESXi, the server icon does not denote the health of the server.
Page 232: Ldap Support
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** LDAP Support NOTE In Linux, users belonging to the root group can log in. You do not have to be the user root. If your user name and password are correct for the Login mode you have chosen, the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu appears.
Page 233 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** LDAP Support Figure 122 LDAP Login Follow these steps to enter the LDAP login details: Enter the IP address of the LDAP server in the LDAP Server IP Address field Enter the LDAP server's user name and password in the User Name and Password fields, respectively.
Page 234: Configuring Ldap Support Settings
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** Configuring LDAP Support Settings Configuring LDAP Support Settings To configure settings for LDAP support, follow these steps: Navigate to the Configure Host dialog, and click the LDAP Settings tab. The following fields appear. Figure 123 Configure Host LDAP Select the Use LDAP login as default login mode check box to always connect to the LDAP server.
Page 235: Megaraid Storage Manager Main Menu
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu window: ***UNRESOLVED***  Properties and Graphical View Tabs  Event Log Panel ...
Page 236 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 125 MegaRAID Storage Manager Physical View Logical View The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers, virtual drives, and the drives and drive groups that make up the virtual drives.
Page 237: Physical Drive Temperature
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 126 MegaRAID Storage Manager Logical View 8.5.2 Physical Drive Temperature The temperature for the physical drive appears in the following figure. You can scroll down to view the Temperature property.
Page 238: Shield State
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 127 Physical Drive Temperature 8.5.3 Shield State This section describes the Shield state in the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. Physical devices in MegaRAID firmware transit between different states. If firmware detects a problem or a communication loss for a physical drive, it transitions the physical drive to a bad (FAILED/UNCONF BAD) state.
Page 239: Logical View Shield State
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 128 Physical View Shield State 8.5.5 Logical View Shield State Follow these steps to view the Shield state under the Logical tab. Click the Logical tab in the device tree. The red dot icon ( ) indicates a Shield state.
Page 240: Viewing Server Profile Of A Drive In Shield State
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Click the physical drive in Shield state on Physical view or Logical view of the device tree to view the properties. The device properties are displayed as shown in the following figure. Figure 130 Physical Drive Properties of a Drive in Shield State NOTE The Status of the drive must be of the Shield type.
Page 241: Displaying The Virtual Drive Properties
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 131 View of a Drive in Shield State 8.5.8 Displaying the Virtual Drive Properties The MegaRAID Storage Manager application displays the following additional virtual drive statistics under controller properties.
Page 242: Mirror Data Size
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 132 Parity Size 8.5.8.2 Mirror Data Size Mirror Data Size is used to determine the size used for storing redundant information on RAID 1 and RAID 10 virtual drives.
Page 243: Metadata Size
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu 8.5.8.3 Metadata Size The metadata size field displays the total space used for metadata. Follow these steps to view the Metadata Size. In the Logical view or the Physical view, click the controller node. The total space used for metadata is displayed in this field, as shown in the following figure.
Page 244: Emergency Spare Property For Controllers
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 135 Emergency Spare- Physical Drive Properties 8.5.9.2 Emergency Spare Property for Controllers The Emergency spare properties under the controller properties are configured based on enabling or disabling the following properties: Emergency Spare ...
Page 245: Commissioned Hotspare
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 136 Emergency Spare Properties for Controllers 8.5.9.3 Commissioned Hotspare The commissioned hotspare is used to determine whether the online drive has a Commissioned Hotspare. To check if the drive is commissioned with a hotspare, click the online physical drive node in the device tree.
Page 246: Ssd Disk Cache Policy
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 137 Commissioned Hotspare 8.5.10 SSD Disk Cache Policy The MegaRAID firmware provides support to change the write-cache policy for SSD media of individual physical drives.
Page 247: Virtual Drive Settings
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 138 Controller Properties – SSD Disk Cache Policy 8.5.10.1 Virtual Drive Settings If the SSD cache property is enabled in the controller properties screen as shown in Controller Properties –...
Page 248: Set Virtual Drive Properties
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 139 Virtual Drive Settings The value of the disk cache policy is unchanged, and the drop-down list is disabled. 8.5.10.2 Set Virtual Drive Properties Follow these steps to set virtual drive properties.
Page 249: Non-Sed Secure Erase Support
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 140 Virtual Drive Properties NOTE You cannot select the Disk cache policy for the virtual drives having only SSD drives or a mix of SSD and HDD during VD creation. The value of the Disk Cache Policy is Unchanged and can be set for only HDD drives.
Page 250 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu user-accessible sector of the drive with specified patterns. It can be repeated in multiple passes using different data patterns for enhanced security. The sanitization technique is more secure than a simple format operation and is commonly called a “clearing”...
Page 251: Group Show Progress For Drive Erase
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu 8.5.11.1 Group Show Progress for Drive Erase Physical drive erase operation is a time-consuming operation and is performed as a background task. It posts events to notify users of the progress.
Page 252 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 144 Mode Selection – Virtual Drive Erase Dialog The menu has the following options. Simple – (Alt+S) – After you select this option and click OK, and if Delete Virtual Drive after Erase is —...
Page 253: Group Show Progress For Virtual Drive Erase
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 145 Warning Message for Virtual Drive Erase Click Yes to erase the virtual drive. — Click No to cancel the erase and close the dialogue. —...
Page 254: Rebuild Write Cache
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 147 Group Show Progress – Virtual Drive 8.5.12 Rebuild Write Cache MegaRAID firmware supports drive cache properties during a rebuild operation. The MegaRAID solution temporarily enables drive cache for the physical drive that is being rebuilt for the duration of the rebuild operation.
Page 255 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu The Group Show Progress dialog appears, as shown in the following figure. If Patrol Read is running, the Group Show Progress Patrol Read dialog appears. Figure 148 Group Show Progress Suspend (Alt+S) –...
Page 256: Enclosure Properties
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu Figure 149 Group Show Progress Patrol Read Suspend Patrol Read – Click to suspend the patrol read operation.  Resume Patrol Read- Click to resume the patrol read operation from the point where it was suspended last. ...
Page 257: Gui Elements In The Megaraid Storage Manager Window And Menus
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** GUI Elements in the MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus GUI Elements in the MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This section describes the graphical user interface (GUI) elements used in the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. 8.6.1 Device Icons The following icons in the left panel represent the controllers, drives, and other devices.
Page 258: Properties And Graphical View Tabs
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** GUI Elements in the MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus NOTE The MegaRAID Storage Manager software shows the icons for tape drive devices; however, no tape-related operations are supported by the utility.
Page 259: Event Log Panel
***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** GUI Elements in the MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus Figure 151 Properties Tab and Graphical View Tab 8.6.3 Event Log Panel The lower part of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays the system event log entries. New event log entries appear during the session.
Page 260 ***MainBookTitle*** Chapter 8: MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus ***ReleaseDate*** GUI Elements in the MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus can perform a check consistency, initialize multiple virtual groups, and show the progress of group operations on virtual drives. Go To Menu The Go To menu is available when you select a controller, drive group, physical drive, virtual drive, or battery backup unit in the main menu screen.
Page 261: Chapter 9: Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Chapter 9: Configuration This chapter explains how to use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to create and modify storage configurations on LSI SAS controllers. The LSI SAS controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 00, RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 storage configurations.
Page 262: Optimum Controller Settings For Cachecade
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration No read ahead: (the default) Disables the read ahead capability. — Write policy: Specify the write policy for this virtual drive:  Write Through: In this mode, the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the —...
Page 263 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration procedure described in Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration. Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in simple configuration mode. Perform either of the following steps: Right-click the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager —...
Page 264 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration The Create Virtual Drive - Allocate capacity dialog appears, as shown in the following figure. If unconfigured drives are available, you have the option to use those unconfigured drives. If unconfigured drives are available, the Create Drive Group Settings window appears, and you can go to step 4.
Page 265 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration If you want to allow different types of drives in a configuration, select the Use the drive type mixing check box. NOTE For best results, do not use drive type mixing. Select the RAID level desired for the virtual drive.
Page 266: Creating A Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration 9.1.5 Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive.
Page 267 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Figure 158 Create Drive Group - Drive Group Settings Window Select the following items on the Create Drive Group - Drive Group Settings window: Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop-down menu. To make a spanned drive, select RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 in the RAID level field.
Page 268 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Figure 159 Span 0 of Drive Group 0 d. Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group. Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives, and click Add> to add them to the second drive group. The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in the following figure.
Page 269 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Figure 160 Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0 Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group with the spans. Click Next to complete this step. The Create Virtual Drive - Virtual drive settings window appears, as shown in the following figure.
Page 270 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Figure 161 Create Virtual Drive - Virtual Drive Settings Window NOTE If you select Write Back with BBU as the write policy, and no battery exists, the battery is low or failed, or the battery is running through a re-learn cycle, the write policy switches to Write Through.
Page 271 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Creating a New Configuration Figure 162 Create Virtual Drive - Summary Window Click Back to return to the previous window to change any selections, or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration.
Page 272: Converting Jbod Drives To Unconfigured Good
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good You can convert JBOD drives to Unconfigured Good using the Create Virtual Drive option or Make Unconfigured Good drive option with a single configuration.
Page 273: Converting Jbod To Unconfigured Good From The Megaraid Storage Manager Main Menu
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Adding Hot Spare Drives Click Next. The Create Virtual Drive - Drive group and Virtual drive settings dialog appears. 9.2.1 Converting JBOD to Unconfigured Good from the MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu You can also convert JBOD to Unconfigured Good by performing these steps: Select Controller >Make UnConfigured Good from the main MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu.
Page 274: Changing Adjustable Task Rates
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Perform one of these actions: If you selected Assign Dedicated Hot Spare, select a drive group from the list that appears. The hot spare is —...
Page 275: Changing Power Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing Power Settings Figure 165 Set Adjustable Task Rates Menu Enter changes, as needed, to the following task rates: Rebuild Rate. Enter a number from 0 to 100 to control the rate at which a rebuild will be performed on a —...
Page 276 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing Power Settings to cool and house the drives, respectively. Also, this technology helps avoid application timeouts caused by spin-up delays and drive wear caused by excessive spin-up/down cycles. You can use the Power Settings field in the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to choose whether to allow unconfigured drives or Commissioned Hotspares to enter Power-Save mode.
Page 277: Recovering And Clearing Punctured Block Entries
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Recovering and Clearing Punctured Block Entries NOTE The Drive Standby time drop-down list is enabled only if any of the check boxes above it are checked. The drive standby time can be 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1.30 hours, or 2 hours through 24 hours.
Page 278: Changing A Virtual Drive Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 167 Set Virtual Drive Properties Dialog Change the virtual drive properties as required. For information about these properties, see Selecting Virtual Drive Settings. Click Ok to accept the changes.
Page 279: Accessing The Modify Drive Group Wizard
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration ATTENTION Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you change its configuration. NOTE You cannot change the configuration of a RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 virtual drive.
Page 280: Adding A Drive Or Drives To A Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 170 Modify Drive Group Wizard Window The following sections explain the Modify Drive Group wizard options. 9.8.2 Adding a Drive or Drives to a Configuration CAUTION Be sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you add a drive to it.
Page 281 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 171 Modify Drive Group Wizard Window Select the RAID level to which you want to change ("migrate") the drive group, and click Next. The following window appears.
Page 282 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 172 Modify Drive Group – Add Drives to the Current Configuration Window Click the check box next to any unconfigured drives that you want to add, and then click Next. NOTE The drives you add must have the same capacity as or greater capacity than the drives already in the drive group, or you cannot change the...
Page 283: Removing A Drive From A Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 173 Modify Drive Group - Summary Window Review the configuration information. You can click Back if you need to change any selections. Click Finish to accept the changes. A confirmation message appears.
Page 284: Replacing A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration NOTE This option is not available for RAID 0 configurations. Click the Logical tab in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window. Click a drive icon in the left panel of the window.
Page 285: Migrating The Raid Level Of A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration 9.8.5 Migrating the RAID Level of a Virtual Drive As the amount of data and the number of drives in your system increase, you can use RAID-level migration to change a virtual drive from one RAID level to another.
Page 286 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 175 Modify Drive Group Wizard Dialog On the Modify Drive Group Wizard dialog, select the RAID level to which you want to change ("migrate") the drive group to, and click Next.
Page 287 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 176 Modify Drive Group - Add drive to the current configuration Screen Select the unconfigured drive or drives to add, and click Next. NOTE The drives you add must have the same capacity as or greater capacity than the drives already in the drive group, or you cannot change the...
Page 288: New Drives Attached To A Megaraid Controller
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration Figure 177 Modify Drive Group - Summary Screen Review the configuration information. You can click Back if you need to change any selections. Click Finish to accept the changes. A confirmation message appears.
Page 289: Deleting A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Configuration March 2014 Deleting a Virtual Drive Automatic rebuilds always occur when the drive slot status changes, for example, when you insert a drive or remove a drive, so that a Commissioned Hotspare can be used. However, a new drive in JBOD drive state (without a valid DDF record), does not perform an automatic rebuild.
Page 290: Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers And Their Attached Devices
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Alert Delivery Methods Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices This chapter explains how to use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to monitor the status of drives, virtual drives, and other storage devices.
Page 291: System Log
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Alert Delivery Methods Figure 178 Vivaldi Log The following events appear in the log when the MegaRAID Storage Manager application is connected to the server. Successful log on to the server.
Page 292: Pop-Up Notification
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Alert Delivery Methods In Linux, the system log is logged in /var/log/messages.  In Solaris, the system log is logged in /var/adm/messages.  10.1.3 Pop-up Notification By default, fatal and critical events are displaying in a pop-up notification.
Page 293: Configuring Alert Notifications
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Configuring Alert Notifications Figure 180 Email Notification 10.2 Configuring Alert Notifications The Alert Notification Configuration feature allows you to control and configure the alerts that the MegaRAID Storage Manager software sends when various system events occur.
Page 294 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Configuring Alert Notifications Figure 181 Configure Alerts You can select the Alert Settings tab to perform the following actions: Edit the alert delivery method for different severity levels. ...
Page 295: Editing Alert Delivery Methods
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Editing Alert Delivery Methods Load all of the values from a previously saved backup into the dialog to edit or save these values as the current ...
Page 296: Changing Alert Delivery Methods For Individual Events
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events 10.4 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events You can change the alert delivery options for an event without changing the severity level. On the Configure Alerts window, click the Alerts Setting tab.
Page 297: Changing The Severity Level For Individual Events
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events For more information, see Roll Back to Default Individual Event Configuration. 10.5 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events To change the event severity level for a specific event, perform the following steps: On the Configure Alerts window, click the Alerts Setting tab.
Page 298: Roll Back To Default Individual Event Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Roll Back to Default Individual Event Configuration 10.6 Roll Back to Default Individual Event Configuration To revert back to the default alert delivery method and the default severity level of an individual event, perform the following steps: On the Configure Alerts window, click the Alerts Setting tab.
Page 299: Authenticating The Smtp Server
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Authenticating the SMTP Server Figure 185 Mail Server Options Enter a sender’s email address in the Sender email address field, or edit the existing sender email address. Enter your SMTP server name/IP Address in the SMTP Server field, or edit the existing details.
Page 300: Adding Email Addresses Of Recipients Of Alert Notifications
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications If you do not want to enable this feature on the MegaRAID Storage Manager software or if you know that your SMTP server does not support the Login mechanism, then de-select the This Server requires authentication check box.
Page 301: Testing Email Addresses Of Recipients Of Alert Notifications
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications 10.10 Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications Use the Email tab in the Configure Alerts window to send test messages to the email addresses that you added for the recipients of alert notifications.
Page 302: Monitoring Server Events
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Server Events NOTE If you choose to load a backup configuration and the Configure Alerts window currently contains changes that have not yet been saved as the current alert notification configuration, the changes will be lost.
Page 303: Monitoring Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Drives Figure 187 Controller Properties The Rebuild rate, Patrol read rate, Reconstruction rate, Consistency check rate, and BGI rate (background initialization) are all user selectable. For more information, see Changing Adjustable Task Rates.
Page 304: Running A Patrol Read
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Running a Patrol Read Figure 188 Drive Properties The Power Status property displays the status On when a drive is spun up and displays the status Powersave when a drive is spun down.
Page 305 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Running a Patrol Read You can set the patrol read properties and start the patrol read operation, or you can start the patrol read without changing the properties.
Page 306: Patrol Read Task Rates
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Virtual Drives ___________________, Continuous Patrolling: Enabled/Disabled, Patrol Read Task Rate: ___________________. (Optional) Set Patrol Read to run at a specific time. The default setting for the patrol read is to start when you click OK on this window. To change the default setting so that the patrol read starts at a specific time, follow these steps (otherwise, skip this step and proceed to step 8): Deselect the Perform Patrol Read when I press OK check box.
Page 307 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Virtual Drives Figure 190 Virtual Drive Properties You can change the read policy, write policy, and other virtual drive properties. To change these properties, see Changing Virtual Drive Properties.
Page 308: Monitoring Enclosures
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Enclosures 10.19 Monitoring Enclosures When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel.
Page 309: Battery Learn Cycle
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Battery Learn Cycle Figure 192 Battery Properties Some fields like Charge appear only in the BBU property pages of batteries other than TMM-C battery. Similarly fields such as Capacitance appear only in the BBU property pages of TMM-C battery.
Page 310: Setting Automatic Learn Cycle Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Battery Learn Cycle 10.21.1 Setting Automatic Learn Cycle Properties To set automatic learn cycle properties, perform the following steps: NOTE For TMM-C battery you cannot set automatic learn cycles properties. Click the Physical tab to open the Physical view.
Page 311: Starting A Learn Cycle Manually
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes 10.21.2 Starting a Learn Cycle Manually To start the learn cycle properties manually, perform the following steps: Click the Physical tab to open the Physical view. Select the BBU icon in the left panel.
Page 312 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices March 2014 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes Rebuild  Consistency check  Non FDE Physical Drive Erase  Virtual Drive Erase  Patrol Read  LD Reconstruction ...
Page 313: Chapter 11: Maintaining And Managing Storage Configurations
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Initializing a Virtual Drive Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations This chapter explains how to use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to maintain and manage storage configurations.
Page 314: Running A Consistency Check
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Running a Consistency Check Figure 196 Group Initialization Dialog Either check the virtual drives on which to run the initialization, or click Select All to select all of the virtual drives. Click Start.
Page 315: Setting The Consistency Check Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Running a Consistency Check To run a consistency check, first set the consistency check properties, and then schedule the consistency check. This section explains how to set the properties, schedule the check, and run the consistency check. 11.2.1 Setting the Consistency Check Settings Follow these steps to set the properties for a consistency check:...
Page 316 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Running a Consistency Check Figure 198 Schedule Consistency Check Dialog Perform the following steps to schedule the consistency check: Select how often to run the consistency check from the drop-down list. You can click Advanced for more detailed date options.
Page 317: Running A Group Consistency Check
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Running a Consistency Check 11.2.3 Running a Group Consistency Check You can run a consistency check on multiple drives at one time. Follow these steps to run a group consistency check. Select Manage >...
Page 318: Scanning For New Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Scanning for New Drives 11.3 Scanning for New Drives You can use the Scan for Foreign Configuration option to find drives with foreign configurations. A foreign configuration is a RAID configuration that already exists on a replacement set of physical disks that you install in a computer system.
Page 319: New Drives Attached To A Megaraid Controller
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Making a Drive Offline or Missing Restart the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. When the new drive spins up, the drive icon changes back to normal status, and the rebuild process begins automatically.
Page 320: Removing A Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Removing a Drive 11.6 Removing a Drive You may sometimes need to remove a non-failed drive that is connected to the controller. For example, you may need to replace the drive with a larger drive.
Page 321 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations March 2014 Upgrading Firmware NOTE If Online Firmware Update is not supported on the controller, the confirmation message box does not appear. Instead, after an image is downloaded, a message appears that indicates an image is being flashed.
Page 322: Chapter 12: Using Megaraid Advanced Software
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 MegaRAID Advanced Software Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software This chapter describes the MegaRAID advanced software offered by the MegaRAID Storage Manager software for certain MegaRAID SAS 12Gb/s RAID controllers and explains how to use these features. 12.1 MegaRAID Advanced Software The MegaRAID advanced software are features that the MegaRAID Storage Manager software supports on certain...
Page 323 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Managing MegaRAID Advanced Software The Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options wizard appears. If none of the advanced software options present in the controller are in a boot mode, the second Manage —...
Page 324 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Managing MegaRAID Advanced Software Figure 202 Manage MegaRAID Advanced Software Options Dialog The Activated MegaRAID Advanced Software Options table consists of the Advanced Software Option and the License columns.
Page 325: Activation Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Activation Key 12.4 Activation Key Figure 203 Activate MegaRAID Advanced Software Options - Choose Method Dialog Perform the following steps to enter the activation key: Click the LSI Advanced Software License Management Portal link to obtain a license authorization code (LAC) and activation key.
Page 326: Application Scenarios And Messages
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Application Scenarios and Messages The Former Status column displays the status of the available advanced software before entering the activation  key. The New Status column displays the status of the available advanced software, after entering the activation key. ...
Page 327: Activating An Unlimited Key Over A Trial Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key Figure 206 Incorrect Activation Key File Message Scenario # 3 If you enter an incorrect activation key, and if a mismatch exists between the activation key and the controller, the following message appears.
Page 328: Activating A Trial Software
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key Figure 209 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key NOTE Except for the yellow shading, the other shadings of the text are provided for easy understanding in the relevant dialogs.
Page 329: Activating An Unlimited Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key Figure 210 Activating a Trial Software 12.7.2 Activating an Unlimited Key When you activate an unlimited key or a trial key, a message Review the summary and go back if you need to make corrections appears (indicated in green text in the following figure).
Page 330: Reusing The Activation Key
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key 12.7.3 Reusing the Activation Key If you are using an existing activated key, the features are transferred to the key vault, and a message appears, as shown in the following figure.
Page 331: Deactivate Trial Software
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Deactivate Trial Software If the advanced software is not secured, the Secure MegaRAID Advanced Software - Confirmation dialog appears, as shown in Figure 208. 12.8 Deactivate Trial Software When you want to deactivate a trial software, use the Deactivate All Trial Software wizard.
Page 332 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Advanced Software Figure 215 Create CacheCade Drive group Dialog After you select the unconfigured drives, the Add > button is available. Click Add > to move the selected drives to the drive group in the right frame, as shown in the following figure. LSI Corporation - 332 -...
Page 333 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Advanced Software Figure 216 Create CacheCade Drive group Dialog After you move the selected drives, the Create Drive Group button is available. Click Create Drive Group.
Page 334 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Advanced Software Figure 217 Create CacheCade™ - Summary Dialog Click Next. The summary dialog appears, as shown in the following figure. This dialog displays the drive group name, the number of drives, the total capacity, the free capacity, the CacheCade virtual drive name, and the capacity being used.
Page 335: Using The Megaraid Cachecade Pro 2.0 Software
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 218 CacheCade Virtual Drive Summary Dialog Click Finish. A confirmation message displays after the CacheCade virtual drive is successfully created. The CacheCade drive icon appears next to the RAID controller in the left frame, in the MegaRAID Storage Manager main window.
Page 336 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 219 CacheCade SSD Caching Wizard - First Screen Select a RAID level for the CacheCade virtual drive in the RAID level field. Select an unconfigured SSD drive, for the selected RAID level, from Select unconfigured SSD Drives in the left frame.
Page 337 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 220 Parameters for CacheCade SSD Caching Virtual Drive Enter a name for the CacheCade virtual drive in the CacheCade - SSD Caching VD name field. Select a write policy from the Write policy drop-down list.
Page 338: Modifying The Cachecade Virtual Drive Properties
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 221 Create CacheCade - SSD Caching - Summary This screen displays the drive group name, the RAID level, the number of drives, the total capacity, the free capacity, the CacheCade virtual drive name, the capacity being used, and the write policy.
Page 339: Enabling Ssd Caching On A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 222 Set Virtual Drive Properties Edit the name of a CacheCade virtual drive in the Name field. Select a write policy from the Write Policy drop-down list. Click OK.
Page 340: Disabling Ssd Caching On A Virtual Drive
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software 12.10.3 Disabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive You can disable caching on a virtual drive. When you disable SSD caching on a virtual drive, any associations that the selected virtual drive has with a CacheCade SSD Caching virtual drive is removed.
Page 341: Modifying A Cachecade Drive Group
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 225 Manage SSD Caching The virtual drives that have SSD caching enabled, have the check boxes next to them selected. The virtual drives that have SSD caching disabled, have deselected check boxes.
Page 342: Clearing Configuration On Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drives
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software 12.10.6 Clearing Configuration on CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drives You can clear all existing configurations on a selected controller that has CacheCade Pro 2.0 virtual drives. Perform one of these actions: Right-click on a controller in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and select Clear —...
Page 343: Deleting A Virtual Drive With Ssd Caching Enabled
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Figure 227 Confirm Remove Blocked Access Select the Confirm check box, and click Yes. 12.10.8 Deleting a Virtual Drive with SSD Caching Enabled You can delete a virtual drive that has SSD caching enabled on it.
Page 344: Fast Path Advanced Software
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Fast Path Advanced Software Figure 228 Confirm Delete Virtual Disk Select the Confirm check box, and click Yes. NOTE If you select the Force the delete to complete quickly check box to delete the virtual drive, the data is not flushed before deleting the virtual drive.
Page 345: Lsi Megaraid Safestore Encryption Services
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services Read Policy: No Read Ahead — Disk Cache Policy: Disabled — Strip Size: 64KB — Click OK. A confirmation dialog displays. Select the Confirm check box, and click Yes to confirm that you want to set the virtual drive properties.
Page 346 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 229 Enable Drive Security – Security Key Identifier Either use the default security key identifier, or enter a new security key identifier. NOTE If you create more than one security key, make sure that you change the security key identifier.
Page 347 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 230 Enable Drive Security - Security Key (Optional) Select the Pause for password at boot time check box. If you choose this option, you must enter the password whenever you boot the server. (Optional) Select the Enforce strong password security check box.
Page 348: Changing Security Settings
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 231 Enable Drive Security - Password ATTENTION If you forget the security key, you will lose access to your data. Be sure to record your security key.
Page 349: Disabling Drive Security
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services NOTE If you change the security key, you need to change the security key identifier. Otherwise, you cannot differentiate between the security keys.
Page 350: Importing Or Clearing A Foreign Configuration
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services NOTE If you disable drive security, you cannot create any new encrypted virtual drives and the data on all encrypted unconfigured drives will be erased.
Page 351: Foreign Configurations In Cable Pull And Drive Removal Scenarios
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services Figure 232 Foreign Configuration Detected Dialog Choose one of the following options: Click Import to import the foreign configuration from all of the foreign drives. —...
Page 352: Managing Link Speed
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Managing Link Speed Scenario #2: If some of the drives in a configuration are removed and re-inserted, the controller considers the  drives to have foreign configurations. Import or clear the foreign configuration.
Page 353 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Managing Link Speed Figure 233 Manage Link Speed Dialog The SAS Address column displays the SAS address that uniquely identifies a device in the SAS domain. —...
Page 354 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 12: Using MegaRAID Advanced Software March 2014 Managing Link Speed Figure 234 System Restart Required Message LSI Corporation - 354 -...
Page 355: Appendix A: Events And Messages
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Appendix A: Events and Messages This appendix lists the MegaRAID Storage Manager events that can appear in the event log. MegaRAID Storage Manager software monitors the activity and performance of all controllers in the workstation and the devices attached to them.
Page 356 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0009 Information Background initialization rate Logged to display background initialization progress changed to %d%% indication in percentage. 0x000a Fatal Controller cache discarded due to...
Page 357 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0025 Information Patrol Read Rate changed to %d%% Logged to indicate progress of patrol read in percentage. 0x0026 Information Patrol Read resumed...
Page 358 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x003f Warning Consistency Check found Logged when consistency check finds inconsistency parity inconsistent parity on %s at strip %lx on a strip.
Page 359 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0058 Information Format complete on %s Logged when Format has completed. 0x0059 Information Format started on %s Logged when format unit is started on a PD.
Page 360 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0071 Warning Unexpected sense: %s, CDB%s, Logged when an I/O fails due to unexpected reasons and Sense: %s sense data needs to be logged.
Page 361 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x008b Information Deleted %s} Logged when the firmware removes an LD from it's configuration upon a user request from the applications. 0x008c Information Marking LD %s inconsistent due to...
Page 362 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x00a2 Information Current capacity of the battery is Logged as part of monitoring the battery status when the below threshold capacity of the battery is below threshold.
Page 363 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x00ba Critical Enclosure %s is unstable Logged when the enclosure services process reports the sense errors. 0x00bb Critical Enclosure %s hardware error...
Page 364 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x00cf Information Enclosure %s Power supply %d cable Logged when the enclosure services process has detected inserted that the Enclosure Power supply cable is inserted and it was removed earlier.
Page 365 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x00ea Information Enclosure %s Firmware download in Logged when Enclosure a Firmware download is in progress. progress 0x00eb Warning...
Page 366 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0107 Warning Foreign configuration table overflow Logged when the number of GUIDs to import exceeds the total supported by the firmware.
Page 367 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x011f Warning Foreign import shall result in a Currently not used in the firmware. backward incompatible upgrade of configuration metadata 0x0120 Information...
Page 368 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0136 Information Drive security key from escrow, Logged when controller lock key is verified from escrow. verified 0x0137 Information...
Page 369 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0152 Information Controller requests a host bus rescan Logged when controller requested a host bus rescan. 0x0153 Information Controller repurposed and factory...
Page 370 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x0171 Warning %s is not available Logged when a LD was not available. 0x0172 Information %s is available Logged when a LD was available.
Page 371 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x018d Warning Cache-vault microcode update Logged when the BMU is not in Normal mode and required Cache-vault microcode update required.
Page 372 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x01aa Critical Erase failed on %s Logged when the Erase is failed on an LD. 0x01ab Progress Erase progress on %s is %s Logged to display the Erase progress on an LD along with its...
Page 373 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix A: Events and Messages March 2014 Severity Number Event Text Generic Conditions when Each Event Occurs Level 0x01c9 Warning Warning Error during boot - %s Logged when a warning error occurs during booting the controller to safe mode.
Page 374: Appendix B: 3Ware Cli Commands To Storcli Command Conversion
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion System Commands Table 58 System Commands Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show a general summary of all tw_cli show show detected controllers.
Page 375 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command monitor eccbucketleakrate numdrives eccbucketsize numports enableeghsp numunits enableesmarter ondegrade enableeug exposeencldevice pchip jbod loadbalancemode rebuild maintainpdfailhistory rebuildmodel migraterate rebuildrate selftest...
Page 376 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command verify=basic [pref=ddd:hh] clusterenable=<value> where hh=(00...23 and ddd={mon|tue|wed|thu|fri|sa t|sun} verify=enable|disable|<1..5 copyback=<on|off> > type=<smartssd|smarthdd|all> verifymode=<adaptive|lowlat directpdmapping=<on|off> ency> verifyrate=<1..5> eccbucketleakrate=<value> eccbucketsize=<value>...
Page 377 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Alarm Commands Table 60 Alarm Commands Description 3Ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Set alarm properties. /cx/ex/almx set /cx set alarm=<on|off|silence> alarm=<mute|unmute|off> NOTE The StorCLI controllers have controller alarms. NOTE The 3ware®...
Page 378: Virtual Drive Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Virtual Drive Commands BBU Commands Table 62 BBU Commands Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show complete BBU /cx/bbu show all /cx/bbu show all information, such as status, capacity information, design information, and properties.
Page 379 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Virtual Drive Commands Table 63 Virtual Drive Commands Description 3Ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Create a RAID volume of the specified /cx add vd type=<RaidType> /cx add vd RAID type.
Page 380 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Virtual Drive Commands Description 3Ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show the virtual drive properties. /cx/ux show autoverify /cx/vx show all /cx/ux show identify NOTE The StorCLI does not have commands to /cx/ux show ignoreECC show individual virtual drive properties.
Page 381 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Virtual Drive Commands Description 3Ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Start initialization (writing 0s) on the /cx/ux start verify /cx/vx start init [Full] virtual drive. NOTE Only the bios can do a foreground initialization.
Page 382: Enclosure Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Enclosure Commands Physical Drive Commands Table 64 Physical Drive Commands Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show physical disk information. /cx/px show [all] /cx[/ex]/sx show [all] Start, stop, suspend, or resume an /cx/ux start rebuild...
Page 383: Miscellaneous Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Miscellaneous Commands Table 65 Enclosure Commands Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show information about the /cx/ex show [all] /cx/ex show [all] enclosure for the selected adapter.
Page 384 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix B: 3ware CLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Miscellaneous Commands Table 67 Miscellaneous Commands Description 3ware CLI Command StorCLI Command Show version information. tw_cli ? Show help for all show commands at tw_cli ? show help server level.
Page 385: Appendix C: Megacli Commands To Storcli Command Conversion
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion System Commands Table 68 System Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Show the software version. MegaCLI -v storcli -v Show help information.
Page 386 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command enableeug eghs enablejbod Jbod enblspindownunconfigdrvs loadbalancemode loadbalancemode maintainpdfailhistoryenbl maintainpdfailhistory ncqdsply patrolreadrate prrate perfmode perfmode predfailpollinterval smartpollinterval rebuildrate rebuildrate reconrate migraterate rstrhotspareoninsert restorehotspare...
Page 387 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command disableocr ocr=<value> eccbucketcount eccbucketsize=<value> eccbucketleakrate eccbucketleakrate=<value> enableeghsp eghs [state=<on|off>] enableesmarter eghs [smarter=<on|off>] enableeug eghs [eug=<on|off> enablejbod jbod=<on|off> enblspindownunconfigdrvs ds=<value> loadbalancemode loadbalancemode=<value>...
Page 388: Consistency Check Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Consistency Check Commands Patrol Read Commands Table 70 Patrol Read Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Show the patrol read status and MegaCli -AdpPR -info storcli/cx show patrolRead patrol read parameters, if any in -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL...
Page 389: Battery Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Table 71 Consistency Check Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Schedule a consistency check. MegaCLI -AdpCcSched -Dsbl|-Info| storcli /cx set {-ModeConc | -ModeSeq [-ExcludeLD consistencycheck|cc=[off|seq|conc] -LN|-L0,1,2] [-SetStartTime [delay=value] starttime=yyyy/mm/dd...
Page 390 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Set battery properties MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd storcli /cx/bbu set -SetBbuProperties -f <fileName> learnDelayInterval=<value> -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL storcli /cx/bbu set bbuMode=<value> storcli /cx/bbu set autolearnmode=<value>...
Page 391 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands RAID Configuration Commands Table 74 RAID Configuration Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Create a RAID configuration of MegaCli –CfgLDAdd storcli /cx add vd type=raid[0|1|5|6] RAID type 0, 1, 5, and 6.
Page 392 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Security Commands Table 75 Security Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Set the key ID for the controller. MegaCli -CreateSecurityKey storcli /cx set -SecurityKey sssssssssss | SecurityKey=XXXXXX [passphrase=yyyyy] [-Passphrase sssssssssss]...
Page 393 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Secure the virtual drive. MegaCLI --LDMakeSecure storcli /cx/vx set security=on -Lx|-L0,1,2,...|-Lall –An Show specific properties of MegaCli –LDGetProp -Cache | storcli /cx/vx show virtual drives.
Page 394 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Physical Drive Commands Table 77 Physical Drive Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Show drive information. MegaCli -pdInfo storcli /cx/ex/sx show -PhysDrv[E0:S0,E1:S1,...] storcli /cx/ex/sx show all -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL Start, stop, pause, resume, or...
Page 395 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Battery Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Start a drive locate and activate MegaCli –PDLocate {[-start] | storcli /cx/ex/sx start locate the drive’s LED or stop a drive -stop} -physdrv[E0:S0,E1:S1,...] storcli /cx/ex/sx stop locate locate and deactivate the drive’s...
Page 396: Event Log Properties Commands
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Event Log Properties Commands Enclosure Commands Table 78 Enclosure Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Show enclosure information. MegaCli –EncInfo storcli /cx/ex show -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL storcli /cx/ex show all Show enclosure status.
Page 397 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix C: MegaCLI Commands to StorCLI Command Conversion March 2014 Event Log Properties Commands Table 81 Event Log Properties Commands Description MegaCLI Command StorCLI Command Show event logs. MegaCli -AdpEventLog storcli /cx show eventloginfo -GetEventLogInfo -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL Show the specified type of...
Page 398: Appendix D: Unsupported Commands In Embedded Megaraid
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix D: Unsupported Commands in Embedded MegaRAID March 2014 Appendix D: Unsupported Commands in Embedded MegaRAID The commands in the following table are not supported in Embedded MegaRAID. Table 83 Unsupported Commands in Embedded MegaRAID Command Group Command Jbod...
Page 399 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix D: Unsupported Commands in Embedded MegaRAID March 2014 Command Group Command storcli /cx/bbu show storcli /cx/bbu show all storcli /cx/bbu set [ learnDelayInterval=<val> | bbuMode=<val> storcli /cx/bbu start learn Secure ease storcli /cx/sx secureerase [force] storcli /cx/sx start erase [simple| normal| thorough][erasepatternA=<val>] storcli /cx/sx stop erase...
Page 400: Appendix E: Cli Error Messages
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix E: CLI Error Messages March 2014 Appendix E: CLI Error Messages This appendix lists the MegaRAID Storage Manager software error messages. The Storage Command Line Tool (StorCLI) and the MegaCLI Configuration Utility are command line interface applications you can use to manage MegaRAID SAS RAID controllers.
Page 401 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix E: CLI Error Messages March 2014 Number Event Text 0x1c LD Rebuild is in progress 0x1d LD is undergoing reconstruction 0x1e LD RAID level is wrong for requested operation 0x1f Too many spares assigned 0x20 Scratch memory not available - try command again later 0x21...
Page 402 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix E: CLI Error Messages March 2014 Number Event Text 0x48 Lock key is not valid, cannot authenticate 0x49 Lock key from escrow cannot be used 0x4a Lock key backup (pass-phrase) is required 0x4b Secure LD exist 0x4c LD secure operation is not allowed...
Page 403 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix E: CLI Error Messages March 2014 Number Event Text 0x6e Signed component is not part of the image 0x6f Authentication failure of the signed firmware image 0x70 Flashing was ok but FW restart is not required, ex: No change in FW from current 0x71 FW is in some form of restricted mode, example: passive in A/P HA mode LSI Corporation...
Page 404: Appendix F: History Of Technical Changes
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix F: History of Technical Changes March 2014 Appendix F: History of Technical Changes This appendix lists all the technical changes made to this guide for all the releases prior to those listed in the Revision History.
Page 405 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Appendix F: History of Technical Changes March 2014 Version and Date Description of Changes 80-00156-01, Rev. J, September 2010 Added Managing Software Licensing in the WebBIOS section. Added EKM and LKM in the WebBIOS section. Added Import Foreign Drive in EKM/LKM Secured Locked Drive in the WebBIOS section.
Page 406: Glossary
12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Glossary This appendix provides a glossary for terms used in this document. Absolute state of Predicted remaining battery capacity expressed as a percentage of Design Capacity. Note charge that the Absolute State of Charge operation can return values greater than 100 percent. Access policy A virtual drive property indicating what kind of access is allowed for a particular virtual drive.
Page 407 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Cache Fast memory that holds recently accessed data. Use of cache memory speeds subsequent access to the same data. When data is read from or written to main memory, a copy is also saved in cache memory with the associated main memory address.
Page 408 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Cycle count The count is based on the number of times the near fully charged battery has been discharged to a level below the cycle count threshold. Default write policy A virtual drive property indicating whether the default write policy is Write Through or Write Back.
Page 409 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Virtual Drive State A virtual drive can be in any one of the following states: Optimal – A virtual drive whose members are all online.  In the output of the StorCLI commands, Optimal is displayed as optl. ...
Page 410 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Gas gauge status Hexadecimal value that represents the status flag bits in the gas gauge status register. Hole In MegaRAID Storage Manager, a hole is a block of empty space in a drive group that can be used to define a virtual drive.
Page 411 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Max error Expected margin of error (percentage) in the state of charge calculation. For example, when Max Error returns 10 percent and Relative State of Charge returns 50 percent, the Relative State of charge is more likely between 50 percent and 60 percent. The gas gauge sets Max Error to 100 percent on a full reset.
Page 412 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Patrol read A process that checks the drives in a storage configuration for drive errors that could lead to drive failure and lost data. The patrol read operation can find and sometimes fix any potential problem with drives before host access.
Page 413 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Read policy A controller attribute indicating the current Read Policy mode. In Always Read Ahead mode, the controller reads sequentially ahead of requested data and stores the additional data in cache memory, anticipating that the data will be needed soon. This speeds up reads for sequential data, but there is little improvement when accessing random data.
Page 414 12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Glossary March 2014 Stripe size A virtual drive property indicating the length of the interleaved data segments that the RAID controller writes across multiple drives, not including parity drives. For example, consider a stripe that contains 64 KB of drive space and has 16 KB of data residing on each drive in the stripe.
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Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

Chapter 1: Overview

Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID

Chapter 3: Safestore Disk Encryption

Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility

Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility

Chapter 6: Storcli

Chapter 7: Megaraid Storage Manager Overview and Installation

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