Asus PIKE 2008 IMR, User Manual

Page 1: ...LSISAS RAID card PIKE 2008 IMR User Guide ...

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Page 3: ...guration 2 8 2 2 4 Viewing and Changing Device Properties 2 22 2 2 5 Viewing System Event Information 2 29 2 2 6 Managing Configurations 2 30 2 3 MegaRAID Storage Manager 2 34 2 3 1 Hardware and Software Requirements 2 34 2 3 2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows OS 2 34 2 3 3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux 2 38 2 3 4 Linux Error Messages 2 39 ...

Page 4: ... RAID sets using the available utilities Chapter 3 Driver installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID drivers on different operating systems Where to find more information Refer to the following sources for additional information and for product and software updates 1 ASUS websites The ASUS website provides updated information on ASUS hardware and software products Refe...

Page 5: ...hat you must type the command exactly as shown then supply the required item or value enclosed in brackets Example At the DOS prompt type the command line format a DANGER WARNING Information to prevent injury to yourself when trying to complete a task CAUTION Information to prevent damage to the components when trying to complete a task NOTE Tips and additional information to help you complete a t...

Page 6: ... RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 RAID 50 OS support Windows XP Professional SP3 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard Edition Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SP2 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 Windows 7 Ultimate Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5...

Page 7: ...1 Chapter 1 Product introduction This chapter offers the PIKE 2008 IMR SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports ...

Page 8: ...ets from SATA SATA II SATA III SAS SAS II hard disk drives connected to the SAS connectors on the motherboard Before you start installing the RAID card check the items in your package with the list below If any of the above items is damaged or missing contact your retailer 1 2 Package contents Check your package for the following items ASUS PIKE 2008 IMR SAS RAID card Support CD User guide ...

Page 9: ...stems refer to website for details Other requirement Appropriate thermal solution Certified power supply module 1 ASUS PIKE interface 1 PCI E x8 2 ASUS PIKE interface 2 8 port SAS signal with SGPIO interface 3 SAS RAID card status LED lights up and blinks to indicate that the card is working normally The SGPIO interface is used for visibility into drive activity failure and rebuild status so that ...

Page 10: ...l ASUS PIKE 2008 IMR SAS RAID card on a 2U 5U or pedestal server 1 Locate the PIKE RAID card slot on the motherboard 2 Align the golden fingers of the RAID card with the PIKE RAID card slot 3 Insert the RAID card into the PIKE RAID card slot Ensure the card is completely inserted into the card slot and the heatsink latch is completely hooked to the edge of the card slot ...

Page 11: ...vertighten the screw or the motherboard component can be damaged To uninstall ASUS PIKE 2008 IMR SAS RAID card from a 2U 5U or pedestal server 1 Disconnect all SAS hard disk drives from the motherboard 2 Remove the screw that secures the RAID card to the motherboard 3 Release the heatsink latch from the card slot with a finger and then remove the RAID card from the slot ...

Page 12: ...o install ASUS PIKE 2008 IMR SAS RAID card on a 1U server 1 Remove the two screws that secure the heatsink bracket on the back of the SAS RAID card Heatsink bracket 3 Locate the PIKE RAID card slot on the motherboard 2 Remove the two screws that secure the outer heatsink on the front of the SAS RAID card DO NOT remove the inner heatsink from the SAS RAID card ...

Page 13: ...den fingers of the RAID card with the PIKE RAID card slot 5 Insert the RAID card into the PIKE RAID card slot Ensure the card is completely inserted into the card slot 6 Connect the hard disk drives to the SAS connectors on the motherboard ...

Page 14: ...1 8 Chapter 1 Product introduction ...

Page 15: ...2 Chapter 2 RAID configuration This chapter provides instructions on setting up creating and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities ...

Page 16: ...s RAID 1 and has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone RAID 10 achieves high input output rates by striping RAID 1 segments In some instances a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the advantage...

Page 17: ...el and capacity when creating a disk array To install SAS hard disks for RAID configuration 1 Install the SAS hard disks into the drive bays following the instructions in the system user guide 2 Connect a SAS signal cable to the signal connector at the back of each drive and to the SAS connector on the motherboard 3 Connect a power cable to the power connector on each drive ...

Page 18: ...virtual drives Detect configuration mismatches Import a foreign configuration Display controller virtual drive drive and change parameters Scan devices connected to the controller Initialize virtual drives Check configurations for data consistency Create a CacheCade configuration You may use disks of different sizes however the size of the smallest disk determines the logical size of each member d...

Page 19: ...for Preboot CLI this option is for advanced debug only LSI MegaRAID SAS MFI BIOS Version 4 15 00 Build June 03 2010 Copyright C 2010 LSI Corporation HA 0 Bus 4 Dev 0 LSI MegaRAID ROMB FW package 20 7 1 0016 Battery Status Not present PCI SLOT ID LUN VENDOR PRODUCT REVISION 5 LSI LSI MegaRAID ROMB 5 0 0 ATA Hitachi HDS72161 AB3A 5 0 0 ATA Hitachi HDS72161 AB3A 5 0 0 ATA Hitachi HDS72161 AB3A 5 0 0 ...

Page 20: ...controller alarm Click this icon to display information about the WebBIOS CU version bus number and device number 2 2 2 WebBIOS CU main screen options This is the Physical View screen which displays the drives that are connected to the controller To toggle between the physical view and logical view of the storage devices connected to the controller click Physical View or Logical View in the menu o...

Page 21: ... WebBIOS CU re scan the physical and virtual drives for any changes in the drive status or the physical configuration The WebBIOS CU displays the results of the scan in the physical and virtual drive descriptions Virtual Drives Select this to view the Virtual Drives screen where you can change and view virtual drive properties initialize drives and perform other tasks Drives Select this to view th...

Page 22: ...ions Clear Configuration Clears the existing configuration New Configuration Clears the existing configuration and lets you create a new configuration Add Configuration Retains the existing storage configuration and adds new drives to it this does not cause any data loss 3 Click Next A dialog box warns that you will lose data if you select Clear Configuration or New Configuration 4 On the next scr...

Page 23: ...virtual drive s WebBIOS CU begins a background initialization of the virtual drives Using Manual Configuration RAID 0 RAID 0 provides drive striping across all drives in the RAID drive group RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer excellent performance RAID 0 is ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance RAID 0 also denotes an independe...

Page 24: ...strip size produces higher read performance If your computer regularly performs random read requests choose a smaller strip size The default is 64 KB Access Policy Select the type of data access that is allowed for this virtual drive RW Allow read write access This is the default Read Only Allow read only access Blocked Do not allow access Read Policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive...

Page 25: ... be the full size for RAID 0 shown in the Configuration panel on the right You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 7 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to return to the previous settings 8 Click Yes to confirm to select the Write Through mode 9 Click Next when you are finished defining virtua...

Page 26: ...ppears You use this screen to select the RAID level strip size read policy and other attributes for the new virtual drives 6 Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options RAID Level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 1 Strip Size The strip size specifies the...

Page 27: ...if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual disk in megabytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 1 shown in the Configuration Panel on the right You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual disks on the same disk group 7 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual dri...

Page 28: ...s panel on the left 2 Click Add To Arrary to move the drives to a proposed drvie group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 3 When you have finished selecting drives for the drive group click Accept DG 4 Click Next The Span Definition screen appears Select one of the available drive groups and then click Add to SPAN 5 When fi...

Page 29: ... initialization enabled This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks This is the default Yes Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in megabytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 5 shown in t...

Page 30: ...rives panel on the left 2 Click Add to Array to move the drives to a proposed two drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right If you need to undo the changes click the Reclaim button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 1 drive group An icon for the next drive group displays in the right panel 4 Click on the icon for the next drive group to select it 5 Hold Ctrl while sele...

Page 31: ...virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as needed Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options RAID Level The drop down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the virtual drive Select RAID 10 Strip Size The strip size specifies the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID configuration You can set the strip size up to 64 KB A larger strip size produces h...

Page 32: ...ackground initializations for configurations on this controller Select Size Specify the size of the virtual drive in megabytes Normally this would be the full size for RAID 10 shown in the Configuration Panel on the right You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 16 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click R...

Page 33: ...button 3 Click Accept DG to create a RAID 5 drive group An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel 4 Click on the icon for the second drive group to select it 5 Hold Ctrl while selecting at least three more ready drives in the Drives panel to create a second drive group 6 Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on th...

Page 34: ...W Allow read write access Read Only Allow read only access This is the default Blocked Do not allow access Read Policy Specify the read policy for this virtual drive Normal This disables the read ahead capability This is the default Write Policy Specify the write policy for this virtual drive Write Through In Writethrough mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when...

Page 35: ...if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group 14 Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition or click Reclaim to undo the changes 15 Click Yes to confirm to select the Write Through mode 16 Click Next when you are finished defining virtual drives The configuration preview screen appears 17 Check the information in the configuration preview 18 If the virt...

Page 36: ...troller click Controller Properties on the main WebBIOS screen There are three Controller Properties screens The following figure shows the first screen The information on this screen is read only and cannot be modified directly Most of this information is self explanatory The screen lists the number of virtual drives that are already defined on this controller plus the number of drives connected ...

Page 37: ...own in the following figure The following table describes the entries options listed on the second and third Controller Properties screen We recommend that you leave these options at their default settings to achieve the best performance unless you have a specific reason for changing them ...

Page 38: ...urces dedicated to background initialization of virtual drives connected to the selected controller The default is 30 percent CC Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to consistency checks of virtual drives connected to the selected contrroller The default is 30 percent Reconstruction Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to recon...

Page 39: ...2 seconds Stop CC On Error Use this option if you want to stop a consistency check when the controller BIOS encounters an error The default is No Maintain PD Fail History Use this option to maintain the history of all drive failures The default is Enabled Controller BIOS Use this option to enable or disable the BIOS for the selected controller The default is Enabled If the boot device is on the se...

Page 40: ...ation select it and click Go Then choose from the following options Select Delete to delete this virtual drive Select Locate to make the LEDs flash on the drives used by this virtual drive This works only if the drives are installed in a drive enclosure that supports SAFTE Select Fast or Slow to initialize this virtual drive A fast initialization quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 10 MB r...

Page 41: ...en click on a drive in the right panel Click on the Properties button and click Go The properties for the selected drive displays The below figure shows the Drive screen The drive properties are view only and are self explanatory Note that the properties include the state of the drive The operations listed at the bottom of the screen vary depending on the state of the drive After you select an ope...

Page 42: ...ional operations appear on this screen Select Make Global HSP to make a global hot spare available to all of the virtual drives Select Enclosure Affinity so if there are drive failures present on a split backplane configuration then the hot spare will be used first on the backplane side that it resides in Select Make Unconf Bad to make the drive state to become Unconfigured Bad Select Prepare Remo...

Page 43: ...n show you how many event entries are currently stored To view event information follow these steps 1 Select an Event Locale from the menu For example select Enclosure to view events relating to the drive enclosure 2 Select an Event Class Informational Warning Critical Fatal or Dead 3 Enter a Start Sequence number between the First Sequence and Last Sequence numbers The higher the number the more ...

Page 44: ... assumes that the data is accurate and automatically corrects the parity value Be sure to back up the data before running a consistency check if you think the data may be corrupted Deleting a Virtual Drive You can delete any virtual drive on the controller if you want to reuse that space for a new virtual drive The WebBIOS CU provides a list of configurable drive groups where there is a space to c...

Page 45: ...rations including foreign configurations will not appear To use drives with existing configurations you must first clear the configuration on those drives Foreign configuration s found on adapter Press any key to continue or C to load the configuration utility or F to import foreign configuration s and continue If WebBIOS CU detects a foreign configuration the following screen appears when enter t...

Page 46: ...ives are removed from a configuration by a cable pull or drive removal for example the configuration on those drives is considered a foreign configuration by the RAID controller Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the foreign configuration in each case The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or physical drive removals If you want to import the foreign configu...

Page 47: ... drive are removed but at different times and re inserted the controller considers the drives to have foreign configurations Import or clear the foreign configuration If you select Import all drives that were pulled before the virtual drive became offline will be imported and then automatically rebuilt Automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives 4 Scenario 4 If the drives in a non re...

Page 48: ...o your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for more information on hardware and operating system requirements 2 3 2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows OS Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Microsoft Windows OS 1 Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the C...

Page 49: ...e Manager software to view or change storage configurations If you select Only for current user the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcuts and associated icons will be available only to the user with this user name 5 Click Next to continue 6 On the next screen accept the default Destination Folder or click Change to select a different destination folder Click Next to continue The Setup Type screen app...

Page 50: ...all on the next screen that appears 9 Select one of the custom setup options The options are fully explained in the screen text Select Client if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a PC that will be used to view and configure servers over a network To begin installation click on Install on the next screen that appears Select Server to install only those components required for ...

Page 51: ...able servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software the server screen will appear as shown in the following figure The server screen will not list any servers You can use this screen to manage systems remotely If you select Custom a window listing the installation features appears as shown in the following f...

Page 52: ...inux_installer tar gz A new disk directory is created 3 Go to the new disk directory 4 In the disk directory find and read the readme txt file 5 To start the installation enter the following command csh install sh a If you select Client installation for a PC used to monitor servers and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete...

Page 53: ...the rpm files manually before installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software with the procedure listed previously The version is already installed This message indicates that the version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software you are trying to install is already installed on the system The installed version is newer This message indicates that a version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already ...

Page 54: ...ge Manager shortcut on the desktop If a warning appears stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of the program click Unblock to allow MegaRAID Storage Manager software to start The Windows Firewall sometimes blocks the operation of programs that use Java To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Red Hat Linux system select Applications System Tools MegaRAID Storage Manager St...

Page 55: ...ct for the Login mode you have chosen the main MegaRAID Storage Manager window appears If the circle in Health column of the corresponding server is orange instead of green it means that the server is running in a degraded state for example because a drive used in a virtual drive has failed If the circle is red the storage configuration in the server has failed You can click Configure Host if you ...

Page 56: ...covers the properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives total capacity configured capacity unconfigured capacity background operations in progress MegaRAID Storage Manager features and their status enabled or disabled and actions you can perform such as creating a virtual drive and updating the firmware as shown in the following figure ...

Page 57: ...e device has failed For example this icon indicates that a drive has failed A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a degraded state For example this icon indicates that a virtual drive is running in a degraded state because a drive has failed You can click the Physical tab to view the drives connected to the controller or Logical tab to view the virtual drive...

Page 58: ... updating the display in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window Refresh is seldom required the display normally updates automatically The Manage menu options also include Check Consistency Initialize and Show Progress Go To Menu The Go To menu is available when a controller physical drive or virtual disk is selected in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window The Go To menu options vary depending on what ...

Page 59: ...MegaRAID Storage Manager software When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content If this warning appears click on the active content warning bar and enable the active content If you are using the Linux operating system you must install Firefox or Mozilla for the MegaRAID Storage Manager ...

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Page 61: ...3 Chapter 3 Driver installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID drivers on different operating systems ...

Page 62: ... the RAID card support CD or from the Internet A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows Server 2003 or Linux operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS using the Makedisk application in the support CD To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment 1 Place the RAID card support CD in the optical drive ...

Page 63: ...ndows XP 32 bit Windows XP 64 bit Windows Server 2003 32 bit Windows Server 2003 64 bit Windows Vista 32 bit Windows Vista 64 bit Windows Server 2008 32 bit Windows Server 2008 64 bit Windows 7 32 bit Windows 7 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit RHEL 3 UP9 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP5 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP6 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP7 32 64 bit RHEL 4 UP8 32 64 bit RHEL 5 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP2 32 64 bit RHEL 5 UP...

Page 64: ... ENTER Continue F3 Exit Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter Currently Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices s none To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support...

Page 65: ... Enter Windows Setup ENTER Select F3 Exit You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list or press ESC to return to the previous screen LSI Fusion MPT SAS Driver Server 2003 32 bit 6 The Windows Setup loads the RAID card drivers from the RAID driver disk When ne...

Page 66: ... My Computer icon on the desktop and select Properties from the menu 2 Click the Hardware tab on the top then click the Device Manager button 3 Double click the LSI MRSASRoMB 8i item 4 Click the Driver tab on the top then click Update Driver The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card LSI MRSASRoMB 8i LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort ...

Page 67: ...e 6 Toggle Don t search I will choose the driver to install then click Next to continue 7 Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive 8 Highlight LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort then click Have Disk LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort ...

Page 68: ...Select from the drop down menu and locate the driver 10 Click Next to start updating the driver 11 After completing driver update click Finish to close the wizard LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort LSI Adapter SAS2 2008 Falcon StorPort ...

Page 69: ... type linux text ENTER Use the function keys listed below for more information F1 Main F2 Options F3 General F4 Kernel F5 Rescue boot linux dd 3 Select Yes using the Tab key when asked if you have the driver disk then press Enter Main Menu Do you have a driver disk Yes No 4 Insert the Red Hat Enterprise RAID driver disk to the USB floppy disk drive select OK then press Enter The drivers for the RA...

Page 70: ...ss Enter 7 Follow the screen instructions to continue the OS installation More Driver Disks Do you wish to load any more driver disks Yes No 6 Select Skip and press Enter to continue CD Found To begin testing the CD media before installation press OK Choose Skip to skip the media test and start the installation OK Skip ...

Page 71: ...n select Yes from the menu Press Enter 4 Insert the RAID driver disk to the USB floppy disk drive Enure that Installation from the Boot Options menu is selected then press Enter 5 When below screen appears select the USB floppy disk drive sdx as the driver update medium Select OK then press Enter The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system Please choose the Driver Update medium...

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