Asus PIKE II 3108 Series, Manual

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Page 2: ...CHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL ASUS ITS DIRECTORS OFFICERS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS LOSS OF BUSINESS LOSS OF USE OR DATA INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE EVEN IF ASUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN ...

Page 3: ...2 7 2 2 4 PD Mgmt Menu 2 8 2 2 5 Ctrl Mgmt Menu 2 9 2 2 6 Properties Menu 2 10 2 2 7 Foreign View Menu 2 11 2 2 8 Managing Software Licensing 2 12 2 2 9 Creating a Storage Configuration 2 13 2 2 10 Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties 2 14 2 2 11 Modifying Controller Properties 2 17 2 2 12 Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties 2 20 2 2 13 Deleting a Virtual Drive 2 20 2 2 14 Delet...

Page 4: ...orage Manager Software 2 29 2 3 6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window 2 31 Chapter 3 Driver Installation 3 1 RAID driver installation 3 2 3 1 1 Windows Server 2012 R2 OS 3 2 3 1 2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 7 0 3 4 3 1 3 SUSE Linux OS 12 3 6 ASUS contact information 3 8 ...

Page 5: ...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 Refer...

Page 6: ...that 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 ...

Page 7: ...2 Mini SAS HD SFF 8643 8 SAS 12Gb s Ports 1 Mini SAS HD SFF 8643 1 Mini SAS HD SFF 8644 Support Device SAS SAS II SAS 12Gb s devices SATA II SATA III devices Data transfer rate SAS 12Gb s RAID Support RAID 0 1 10 5 50 6 60 Max PHD Max physical Disk qty for RAID 16 Max physical Disk qty for RAID 240 Cache 1GB on board SDRAM Battery Backup Support Header reserved for LSI CacheVault acquired from LSI...

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Page 9: ...This chapter offers the PIKE II 3108 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports 1 Product Introduction Chapter 1 Product Introduction ...

Page 10: ...AID 10 RAID 5 RAID 50 RAID 6 and RAID 60 sets from SATA II SATA III SAS SAS II SAS III hard disk drives connected to the SAS connectors on the card 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 II 3108 Series...

Page 11: ...8 interface 2 Internal mini SAS HD connectors 3 External mini SAS HD connector 4 Switch for more than one card 5 HBLED1 HEARTBEAT LED The LED shows the firmware heartbeat information blinking PIKE II 3108 4i4e DRLED1 FAILLED1 HBLED1 DEFAULT_SEL1 6 DRLED1 Dirty cache LED Write Pending light 7 FAILLED1 Global Drive Fault LED Drive fault detected light 8 CacheVault connector ...

Page 12: ... II card on your system ensure to manually set the pin settings on the Switch on each of the PIKE II cards to ensure that the system detects all the cards installed You can refer to the following table for the pin settings PIKE 3108 Switch Pin name Pin value 1 SW1 1 2 3 111 2 SW1 1 2 3 110 3 SW1 1 2 3 101 4 SW1 1 2 3 100 5 SW1 1 2 3 011 6 SW1 1 2 3 010 7 SW1 1 2 3 001 8 SW1 1 2 3 000 ...

Page 13: ...Server motherboard PCI E Gen3 slot SAS or SATA hard disk drives Mini SAS HD cable Supported operating system Windows and Linux operating systems refer to website for details Other requirements Appropriate thermal solution Certified power supply module Ensure to update your BIOS to the latest version before using PIKE II 3108 series on ASUS Z9 or P9 series platform ...

Page 14: ...d slot 3 Insert the RAID card into the PCIE Gen3 card slot Ensure the card is completely seated in place 4 For PIKE II 3108 8i connect the hard disk drives to the internal Mini SAS HD connectors For PIKE II 3108 4i4e connect the hard disk drives to the internal and external Mini SAS HD connectors Internal mini SAS HD connector PCI E slot PIKE RAID card External mini SAS HD connector Internal mini ...

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

Page 16: ...le 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 advantages of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance fault tolerance and higher storage capacity The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing relational database applications en...

Page 17: ...otherboard 3 Connect a power cable to the power connector on each drive 2 2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility The AVAGO MegaRAID SAS MFI BIOS Utility is an integrated RAID solution that allows you to create RAID 0 1 10 5 50 6 and 60 sets from SATA II SATA III SAS SAS II SAS III hard disk drives supported by the LSI SAS 3108 12Gb s SAS controller Create drive groups and virtual drives for storage conf...

Page 18: ... appears Select a controller and press Enter 2 2 1 Starting the MegaRAID Configuration Utility Follow these steps to start the MegaRAID Configuration Utility and access the main screen 1 Turn on the system after installing all SAS hard disk drives 2 During POST press Ctrl R when the following screen appears ...

Page 19: ... Serial ATA and SAS disk drives in one volume MPTFW and MPTBIOS version of the SAS RAID card Take note of the BIOS and FW version of your SAS RAID card You will need it if you request support from the ASUS Technical Support team You can get the BIOS and FW version of your SAS RAID card navigate to the Properties screen BIOS version FW version The RAID setup screens shown in this section are for re...

Page 20: ...ntroller Ctrl N Displays the next menu screen Ctrl P Displays the previous menu screen Ctrl S shortcut key for the Apply button in the Controller Settings screens Tab Moves the cursor to the next control Enter Lets you to select a menu item a button a check box and values in a list box Esc Closes a screen or a window Press Esc twice to exit from the Ctrl R Utility Up Arrow Moves the cursor to the ...

Page 21: ...creen you can perform tasks such as creating and initializing virtual drives performing a consistency check deleting expanding and erasing virtual drives importing or clearing foreign configurations and creating CacheCade virtual drives The right panel of the screen shows attributes of the selected device Based on the controller settings some options will be enabled or disabled ...

Page 22: ...shows information about enclosures the number of physical drives in an enclosure and all of the direct attached drives under a backplane node 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 The right panel of the screen shows additional attributes of the selected device ...

Page 23: ...Fail History Enable JBOD Auto Enhanced Import and Enable Stop CC on Error You also can perform tasks such as enabling or silencing an alarm entering values for Rebuild Rate and Patrol Rate and enabling or disabling the JBOD mode If you enable the JBOD mode the drive comes up as JBOD otherwise the drive comes up as Unconfigured Good In the second screen you can perform tasks such as changing the li...

Page 24: ...creens is read only In the first screen you can view properties such as controller status firmware version BIOS version and metadata size 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 pres...

Page 25: ...one or more physical drives in a configuration are removed and reinserted the controller considers the drives as foreign configurations 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 forei...

Page 26: ...y 2 Navigate to Advanced Software Options and press Enter 3 Enter a valid activation key in the Activation Key field 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 The License column shows the license details for the list of advanced software option...

Page 27: ... Drive Group dialog are the same as in the Create New VD dialog 3 Select a RAID level for the drive group from the RAID Level field 4 All the available unconfigured good drives appear in the Drives box Select the physical drives that you prefer 5 You can enter a size less than the maximum size of the drive group if you want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group The maximum size of...

Page 28: ...se one of the Initialization options 2 2 10 Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties This section describes the following additional virtual drive properties that you can select while you create virtual drives Change these parameters only if you have a specific reason for doing so It is usually best to keep them at their default settings ...

Page 29: ...ion This option eliminates the risk of losing cached data in case of a power failure Write Back In this mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all the data in a transaction Write Back with BBU In this mode the controller has no BBU or the BBU is bad If you do not choose this option the controller firmware automatically switche...

Page 30: ...e Select to initialize the virtual drive Initialization prepares the storage medium for use Fast initialization will be performed on the virtual drive Configure Hot Spare Select to configure physical drives as hot spares for the newly created virtual drive This option is enabled only if there are additional drives and if they are eligible to be configured as hot spares This option is not applicabl...

Page 31: ...ard 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 The coercion mode options are None 128MB way and 1GB way The number you choose depends on how much the drives from various vendors vary in their actual size BIOS Mode Specifies the following options to set the BIOS boot mode Stop on Er...

Page 32: ...ache Flush Interval Use this option to control the interval at which the contents of the onboard data cache are flushed The range of Cache Flush Interval is between 0 to100 seconds Spinup Delay Use this option to control the interval in seconds between spinup of drives connected to this controller The delay prevents a drain on the system s power supply that would occur if all drives spun up at the...

Page 33: ...t in use by spinning down the unconfigured good drives hot spares and configured drives 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 You can select from the options None UG Unconfigured Good GHS Global Hotspare or UG and GHS U...

Page 34: ...l Drive You can delete any virtual drive on the controller if you want to reuse that space for a new virtual drive The Utility lists configurable drive groups where there is space to configure If multiple virtual drives are defined on a single drive group you can delete a virtual drive without deleting the entire drive group Back up any data that you want to keep before you delete a virtual drive ...

Page 35: ...ializing a Virtual Drive When you create a new virtual drive the 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 To initialize a virtual drive 1 In the VD Mgmt screen navigate to a virtual drive and press the F2 key 2 Navigate to Initialization and press Enter 3 Select one of the...

Page 36: ...he consistency check 2 2 16 Running a Consistency Check You should periodically run a consistency check on fault tolerant virtual drives RAID 1 5 6 10 50 or 60 configurations RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy A consistency check scans the virtual drive to determine whether the data has become corrupted and needs to be restored Make sure to back up the data before you run a consistency check ...

Page 37: ...m 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 ASUS PIKE 3108 Support CD in the optical disc drive The CD automatically displays the Utilities menu if Autorun ...

Page 38: ...torage 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 6 Click Next to continue 7 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 scree...

Page 39: ... on the next screen that appears 10 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 re...

Page 40: ...o available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet that is servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software the server screen appears 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 followin...

Page 41: ...ux_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 i...

Page 42: ... all 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 alr...

Page 43: ...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 the 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 Manage...

Page 44: ...correct 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...

Page 45: ...vers 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 46: ...at the 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 ...

Page 47: ...pdating 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 ty...

Page 48: ... the 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 Man...

Page 49: ...3 Driver Installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID card driver on different operating systems Chapter 3 Driver Installation ...

Page 50: ...owever we recommend using the RAID driver packaged in the RAID card support CD for better reliability 3 1 1 Windows Server 2012 R2 OS During Windows Server 2012 R2 OS installation To install the RAID card driver when installing Windows Server 2012 R2 OS 1 Boot the computer using the Windows Server 2012 R2 OS installation CD to start the Windows Setup process 2 Follow onscreen installation Ensure t...

Page 51: ...erver 2012 R2 OS installation To update the RAID card driver after installing Windows Server 2012 R2 OS The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card 1 Insert the support DVD that is bundled with your PIKE 3108 Series card into the disc drive 2 Right click on the Start button then click Device Manager 3 Go to Storage Controllers then select LSI Adapter SAS 3108 Fury StorPort...

Page 52: ...t the dd iso from the support CD go to Drivers PIKE_II_3108 8i_16PD_PIKE_ II_3108 8i_240PD_PIKE_II_3108 4i4e_240PD Driver Linux rhel7_oel7_centos7 disks 1 To download dd iso from the ASUS website visit www asus com 2 Boot the system from the Red Hat OS installation CD 3 From the initial installation page use the arrow keys to select the installation method then press Esc to enter the boot option 4...

Page 53: ... PIKE II 3108 Series 3 5 5 From the Driver disk device selection list key in 5 then press Enter 6 From the Choose driver disk ISO file list key in 2 then press Enter 7 Key in C then press Enter to continue ...

Page 54: ...o your system To get the dd iso from the support CD go to Drivers PIKE_II_3108 8i_16PD_PIKE_ II_3108 8i_240PD_PIKE_II_3108 4i4e_240PD Driver Linux sles12 disks 1 To download dd iso from the ASUS website visit www asus com 2 Boot the system from the SUSE OS installation CD 3 From the initial installation page press F6 and select Yes to load the driver ...

Page 55: ...ASUS PIKE II 3108 Series 3 7 4 Follow on screen instructions to continue with the installation ...

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Page 59: ... 8i 240PD PIKE II 3108 4i4e 16PD PIKE II 3108 4i4e 240PD Conforms to the following specifications FCC Part 15 Subpart B Unintentional Radiators Supplementary Information This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interferenc...

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