PIKE 2108 LSISAS RAID card User Guide
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Contents About this guide........................................................................................... v PIKE 2108 specifications summary.......................................................... vii Chapter 1: Product introduction 1.1 Welcome!....................................................................................... 1-2 1.3 Card layout.................................................................................... 1-3 1.2 1.4 1.5 Package contents.....................
Contents 3.3 Windows® Server 2008 OS Driver Installation............................ 3-9 3.3.1 3.3.2 During Windows® Server 2008 OS installation................ 3-9 After Windows® Server 2008 OS installation..................3-11 3.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS 5 Driver Installation................. 3-13 ® 3.5 iv SUSE® Linux OS 11 Driver Installation......................................
About this guide This user guide contains the information you need when installing and configuring the server management board. How this guide is organized This guide contains the following parts: • • • Chapter 1: Product introduction This chapter offers the PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports. Chapter 2: RAID configuration This chapter provides instructions on setting up, creating, and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities.
Conventions used in this guide To make sure that you perform certain tasks properly, take note of the following symbols used throughout this manual. 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. IMPORTANT: Instructions that you MUST follow to complete a task. NOTE: Tips and additional information to help you complete a task.
PIKE 2108 specifications summary Controller LSI SAS 2108 6Gb/s SAS Controller Interface ASUS PIKE interface Ports 8 ports Support Device SAS / SAS II devices SATA / SATA II / SATA III devices Data transfer rate SATA III and SAS II 6Gb/s per PHY RAID level • RAID 0 / 1 / 10 / 5 / 50 / 6 / 60 • Max.
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This chapter offers the PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports.
1.1 Welcome! Thank you for buying an ASUS® PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card! The ASUS PIKE 2108 allows you to create RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60 sets 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. 1.2 Package contents Check your package for the following items.
1.3 Card layout The illustration below shows the major components of the RAID card. Front 2 2 1. 2. 1 1 ASUS PIKE interface-1: PCI-E Gen2 x8 ASUS PIKE interface-2: 8-port SAS signal with SGPIO interface* * The SGPIO interface is used for visibility into drive activity, failure and rebuild status, so that users could build high-performance and reliable storage systems. Refer to the motherboard manual for detailed information about using the SGPIO connectors on the motherboard. Rear 2 1 1. 2.
1.5 Card installation Follow the below instructions to install ASUS PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card to your server system. For 1U server, install the SAS RAID card to the PIKE RAID card slot on the motherboard. It is recommended to install a low-profile form factor PCIe expansion card with full height bracket, or with low profile bracket to the PCIe riser card to prevent mechanical interference with the PIKE 2108 card.
Install ASUS PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card to the server system 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. 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. 3. Secure the heatsink to the nearest screw hole on the motherboard.
Attach the Battery Backup Unit (BBU) cable If you have a LSI Battery Backup Unit (BBU), connect the BBU cable to the BBU connector on the PIKE RAID card. Align the pin 1 wire (red) of the BBU cable to the triangle mark on the BBU connector, and then firmly insert the cable. Uninstall ASUS PIKE 2108 SAS RAID card from the server system 1. 2. 3. 1-6 Disconnect all SAS hard disk drives from the motherboard. Remove the screw that secures the RAID card to the motherboard.
This chapter provides instructions on setting up, creating, and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities.
2.1 Setting up RAID The RAID card supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60. 2.1.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone, thus improving data access and storage. Use of at least two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
• ������������������������������������������������������������������������� Having RAID 0 and RAID 5 virtual disks in the same physical array is not recommended. If a drive in the physical array has to be rebuilt, the RAID 0 virtual disk will cause a failure during the rebuild. • 2.1.2 If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created RAID set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk before you install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive.
2.2 LSI WebBIOS Configuration Utility The LSI WebBIOS Configuration Utility (CU) is an integrated RAID solution that allows you to create RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60 sets from SATA/SATA II/SATA III/SAS/SAS II hard disk drives supported by the LSI SAS 2108 controller.
2.2.1 Starting the WebBIOS CU Follow these steps to start the WebBIOS CU and access the main screen. 1. 2. Turn on the system after installing all SAS hard disk drives. During POST, press when the following screen appears Press for Preboot CLI: this option is for advanced debug only! LSI MegaRAID SAS-MFI BIOS Version 3.19.00 (Build October 19, 2010) Copyright(C) 2010 LSI Corporation HA -0 (Bus 12 Dev 0) LSI MegaRAID SAS PCI Express ROMB FW package: 12.12.
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 on the left. When the Logical View screen is displayed, you can see all the virtual drives that are configured on this controller.
Here is a description of the options listed on the left of the main WebBIOS CU screen: • • • • • • • • • • Advanced Software Option: Select this to allow you to enable the special functionality or features that may not be available in the standard configuration of the controller. Controller Selection: Select this to view the Adapter Selection screen, where you can select a different SAS adapter.
2.2.3 Creating a Storage Configuration This section explains how to use the WebBIOS CU Configuration Wizard to configure RAID arrays and virtual drives. The default settings of the configuration items mentioned in this section are subject to change without notice, but the functions of the items will not be affected.
If you select Automatic Configuration, you can choose the redundancy mode: • Redundancy when possible: Automatically creates an optimal RAID configuration, providing data redundancy. • No Redundancy: Automatically creates a non-redundant RAID 0 configuration. 5. Click Next to continue. Using Automatic Configuration Follow these instructions to create a configuration with automatic configuration, either with or without redundancy: 1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right, as shown in the right figure. Select a preferred Power save mode. The power save mode can be Max, Max without cache, Auto, None, and Controller defined. If you need to undo the changes, click the Reclaim button. When you have finished selecting drives for the drive group, click Accept DG. Click Next. The Span Definition screen appears.
• ◊A head: This enables read ahead capability, which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store 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. This is the default.
8. 9. Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition, or click Reclaim to return to the previous settings. Click Yes to confirm the write policy mode you have chosen. 10. Click Next when you are finished defining virtual drives. The configuration preview screen appears, as shown in the right figure. 11. Check the information in the configuration preview. 12. If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable, click Accept to save the configuration.
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 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 higher read performance. If your computer regularly performs random read requests, choose a smaller strip size. The default is 64 KB.
◊N oChange: Leave the current drive cache policy unchanged. This is the default. ◊ Enable: Enable the drive cache. • • 8. 9. ◊D isable: Disable the drive cache. Disable BGI: Specify the background initialization status: ◊ No: Leave background 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.
When you select Manual Configuration and click Next, the Drive Group Definition screen appears. You use the Drive Group Definition screen to select drives to create drive groups. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Hold while selecting two ready drives in the Drives panel on the left. Click Add to Array to move the drives to a proposed two-drive drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right. Select a preferred Power save mode.
15. 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 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 higher read performance.
• Drive Cache: Specify the drive cache policy: ◊N oChange: Leave the current drive cache policy unchanged. This is the default. ◊ Enable: Enable the drive cache. • • ◊D isable: Disable the drive cache. Disable BGI: Specify the background initialization status: ◊ No: Leave background 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.
When you select Manual Configuration and click Next, the Drive Group Definition screen appears. You use this screen to select drives to create drive groups. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Hold while you select at least three ready drives in the Drives panel on the left. Click Add To Arrary to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right. Select a preferred Power save mode. The power save mode can be Max, Max without cache, Auto, None, and Controller defined.
◊W rite Through: In Write Through mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the drive subsystem has received all of the data in a transaction. ◊A lways Write Back: In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction. This setting is recommended in Standard mode.
12. If the virtual drive configuration is acceptable, click Accept to save the configuration. Otherwise, click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration. 13. If you accept the configuration, click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration. 14. Click Yes at the prompt to start initialization. Using Manual Configuration: RAID 50 RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 5. RAID 50 uses both distributed parity and drive striping across multiple drive groups.
11. Select a second drive group from the Array With Free Space drop-down list, and click Add to SPAN. Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span. 12. When finish, click Next. The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears. You use this screen to select the RAID level, strip size, read policy, and other attributes for the new virtual drive(s). 13. If there are additional drive groups with three or more drives each, you can add them to the virtual drive. 14.
• ◊W rite Back with BBU: In Writeback mode the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all of the data in a transaction. This setting has to be used with a Battery Backup Unit (BBU). This is the default. IO Policy: The IO Policy applies to reads on a specific virtual drive. It does not affect the read ahead cache. ◊D irect: In direct I/O mode, reads are not buffered in cache memory.
Using Manual Configuration: RAID 6 RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 (drive striping and distributed parity), except that instead of one parity block per stripe, there are two. With two independent parity blocks, RAID 6 can survive the loss of two drives in a virtual drive without losing data. Use RAID 6 for data that requires a very high level of protection from loss. RAID 6 is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small input/output (I/O) transactions simultaneously.
• 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: ◊ Normal: This disables the read ahead capability.
◊ No: Leave background 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. • 8. 9. ◊Y es: 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 terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes, or kilobytes.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right. Select a preferred Power save mode. The power save mode can be Max, Max without cache, Auto, None, and Controller defined. If you need to undo the changes, click the Reclaim button. Click Accept DG to create a RAID 6 drive group. An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel. Click on the icon for the second drive group to select it.
◊ 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: ◊ Normal: This disables the read ahead capability. ◊A head: This enables read ahead capability, which allows the controller to read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory, anticipating that the data will be needed soon.
• Select Size: Specify the size of the virtual drive in terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes, or kilobytes. Normally, this would be the full size for RAID 60 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. 15. Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual drive definition, or click Reclaim to undo the changes. 16. Click Yes to confirm the write policy mode you have chosen. 17.
2.2.4 Viewing and Changing Device Properties This section explains how you can use the WebBIOS CU to view and change the properties for controllers, virtual drives, and drives. WebBIOS allows you to view information for the LSI SAS controller. To view the properties for the controller, click Controller Properties on the main WebBIOS screen. There are three Controller Properties screens. The right figure shows the first screen. The information on this screen is readonly and cannot be modified directly.
Controller Properties Menu Options 2-30 Option Description Set Factory Defaults Use this option to load the default MegaRAID® WebBIOS CU settings. The default is [No]. Cluster Mode Use this option to enable or disable Cluster mode. The default is [Disabled]. A cluster is a grouping of independent servers that can access the same data storage and provide services to a common set of clients. When Cluster mode is disabled, the system operates in Standard mode.
Controller Properties Menu Options (Cont.) Option Description Patrol Read Rate Use this option to select the rate for patrol reads for drives connected to the selected controller. The default is 30 percent. The patrol read rate is the percentage of system resources dedicated to running a patrol read. Cache Flush Interval Use this option to control the interval (in seconds) at which the contents of the onboard data cache are flushed. The default is 4 seconds.
Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties Access the Virtual Drive screen by clicking a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the WebBIOS CU main screen. The following figure shows the Virtual Drive screen. The configuration items in the screen above vary with the existing RAID level. The Properties panel of this screen displays the virtual drive’s RAID level, state, capacity, and strip size.
• Select CC to run a consistency check on this virtual drive. Before you change a virtual drive configuration, back up any data on the virtual drive that you want to save. • Select Adv Opers to set the advanced operations on this virtual drive. 1. Select either Change RAID Level or Change RAID Level and Add Drive. ◊ If you select Change RAID Level, change the RAID level from the drop-down menu. 2.
Viewing Drive Properties The Drives screen displays the properties of a selected drive and also enables you to perform operations on the drive. There are two ways to access the Drive screen: • • On the main menu screen, click on a drive in the right panel under the heading Physical Drives. On the main menu screen, click on Physical Drives in the left panel to display the Physical Drive screen. Then click on a drive in the right panel. Click on the Properties button, and click Go.
If the drive state is Unconfigured Good, four additional 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.
2.2.5 Viewing System Event Information The SAS controller firmware monitors the activity and performance of all storage configurations and devices in the system. When an event occurs (such as the creation of a new virtual drive or the removal of a drive) an event message is generated and is stored in the controller NVRAM. You can use the WebBIOS CU to view these event messages. To do this, click Events on the main WebBIOS CU screen. The Event Information screen appears, as shown in the following figure.
2.2.6 Managing Configurations This section includes information about maintaining and managing storage configurations. Running a Consistency Check You should periodically run a consistency check on fault-tolerant virtual drives. A consistency check verifies that the redundancy data is correct and available for RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 arrays. To do this, follow these steps: 1. 2. 3. On the main WebBIOS CU screen, select a virtual drive.
Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration A foreign configuration is a storage configuration that already exists on a replacement set of drives that you install in a computer system. In addition, if one or more drives 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.
2. 3. Select a configuration or All Configurations. Perform one of the following steps: • Click Preview to preview the foreign configurations. The Foreign Configuration Preview screen appears, as shown in the right figure. • Click Clear to clear the foreign configurations and reuse the drives for another virtual drive. If you click Cancel, it cancels the importation or preview of the foreign configuration. 4. The right panel shows the virtual drive properties of the foreign configuration.
2. 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. If you select Import, automatic rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives. Start a consistency check immediately after the rebuild is complete to ensure data integrity for the virtual drives. 3. 4.
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to configure, monitor, and maintain storage configurations on LSI SAS controllers. The MegaRAID Storage Manager graphical user interface (GUI) makes it easy for you to create and manage storage configurations. 2.3.
5. Enter your user name and organization name. In the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: – – 6. 7. If you select All users, any user with administrative privileges can use this version of MegaRAID Storage 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. Click Next to continue.
8. Select one of the Setup options. The options are fully explained in the screen text. – – 9. Normally, you would select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server. Select Custom Installation if you want to select individual program components. Click Next to continue. If you selected Custom Installation as your setup option, the second Setup Type screen appears, as shown in the following figure.
If you select Custom, a window listing the installation features appears, as shown in the following figure. Select the features you want on this screen. 11. Click Next to proceed. 12. Click Install to install the program. 13. When the final Configuration Wizard screen appears, click Finish.
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Copy the MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz file to a temporary folder. Untar the MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz file using the following command: tar -zxvf MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz A new disk directory is created. Go to the new disk directory. In the disk directory, find and read the readme.txt file.
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages The following messages may appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system: • • • • • 2-46 More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software has been installed. This message indicates that the user has installed more than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software. (This can be done by using the rpmforce command to install the rpm file directly, which is not recommended, instead of using the install.sh file.
2.3.5 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and view the main window: 1. Start the program using the method required for your operating system environment: – To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Microsoft Windows system, select Start > All Programs > MegaRAID Storage Manager > StartupUI, or double-click the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop.
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 want to select the display preferences for the server. You can choose to display only the local server, systems from a list, or display all of the systems in the network of the local server. 3.
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window After you log in, the dashboard view provides an overview of the system and 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.
You can click the Physical tab to view the drives connected to the controller or Logical tab to view the virtual drives connected to the controller. The following icons in the left panel represent the controllers, drives, and other devices: • System • Controller • Slot for a drive • Drive group • Virtual drive A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed. For example, this icon indicates that a drive has failed: .
Properties View Panel The right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window has the Properties tab that displays information about the selected device. For example, if a controller icon is selected in the left panel, the Properties tab lists information such as the controller name, NVRAM size, and device port count. 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.
Help Menu On the Help menu you can select Help > Contents to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help file. You can select Help > About MegaRAID Storage Manager to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. 2-52 • 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.
This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID drivers on different operating systems.
3.1 RAID driver installation After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides instructions on how to install or update the RAID card drivers. The RAID card driver might be included in the Linux OS installation CD, and could be loaded automatically during OS installation. However, we recommend using the RAID driver packaged in the RAID card support CD for better reliability.
6. Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create.
3.2 Windows® Server 2003 OS Driver Installation 3.2.1 During Windows® Server 2003 OS installation To install the RAID card driver when installing Windows® Server 2003 OS: 1. 2. Boot the computer using the Windows® Server 2003 OS installation CD. The Window® Setup starts. Press when the message “Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver...” appears at the bottom of the screen. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver... 3.
4. Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive, then press . Windows Setup Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A: * Press ENTER when ready. ENTER=Continue 5. ESC=Cancel F3=Exit Select LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID Controller Driver (Server 2003), and then press . Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer.
3.2.2 After Windows® Server 2003 OS installation To update the RAID card driver after installing Windows® Server 2003 OS: 1. Click Start, right-click My Computer and select Manage from the menu. 3. Double-click RAID Controller under the Other Devices item. 2. In the Computer Management window, click the Device Manager item. The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card. 4. 3-6 Click the Driver tab on the top, then click Update Driver.
5. Toggle No, Not this time to cancel searching driver from Windows Update, and then click Next to continue. 6. Toggle Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), then click Next to continue. 7. Select the Include this location in the search: check box, and then click Browse.
7. 3-8 Insert the SAS RAID card Support CD into the optical drive. 8. Locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support CD, and then click OK to continue. 9. The system automatically updates the driver. After completing driver update, click Finish to close the wizard.
3.3 Windows® Server 2008 OS Driver Installation 3.3.1 During Windows® Server 2008 OS installation To install the RAID card driver when installing Windows® Server 2008 OS: 1. 2. Boot the computer using the Windows® Server 2008 OS installation disc. Follow the screen instructions to start installing Windows Server 2008. When prompted to choose a type of installation, click Custom (advanced). 3. Click Load Driver. 4.
5. Locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support CD, and then click OK to continue. 6. Select LSI MegaRAID SAS PCI Express ROMB and click Next. 7. When the system finishes loading the RAID driver, replace the SAS RAID card Support CD with the Windows Server installation disc. Select the drive to install Windows and click Next. 8. 3-10 Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue.
3.3.2 After Windows® Server 2008 OS installation To update the RAID card driver after installing Windows® Server 2008 OS: 1. Click Server Manager on the Windows taskbar. In the Server Manager window, click the “+” sign before Diagnostics and click Device Manager. Click the “+” sign before Storage controllers, and double-click LSI MegaRAID SAS Adapter. The controller name differs according to the installed SAS RAID card. 4. Click the Driver tab on the top, then click Update Driver.
5. Click Browse my computer for driver software. 6. Insert the SAS RAID card Support CD into the optical drive. Click Browse. 7. 8. 9. 3-12 In the Browse for Folder window, locate the driver in the corresponding folder of the Support CD, and then click OK to continue. In the Update Driver Software window, click Next to continue. The system automatically updates the driver. After completing driver update, click Close to exit the wizard.
3.4 Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS 5 Driver Installation To install the RAID card driver when installing�������� Red Hat® Enterprise OS: 1. 2. Boot the system from the Red Hat® OS installation CD. At the boot:, type linux dd, then press . - To install or upgrade in graphical mode, press the key. - To install or upgrade in text mode, type: linux text . - Use the function keys listed below for more information.
5. When asked if you will load additional RAID controller drivers, select No, then press . More Driver Disks? Do you wish to load any more driver disks? Yes 6. No Select Skip and press 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 7. 3-14 Skip Follow the screen instructions to continue the OS installation.
3.5 SUSE® Linux OS 11 Driver Installation To install the RAID card driver when installing��������������������������������� SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS: 1. Boot the system from the SUSE OS installation CD. 3. Press , then select Yes from the menu. Press . 2. 4. 5. Use the arrow keys to select Installation from the Boot Options menu. Insert the RAID driver disk to the USB floppy disk drive. Ensure that Installation from the Boot Options menu is selected, then press .
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