Software User Guide for Windows*

Overview
2 Intel
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RSTe for Microsoft Windows* OS Software User’s Guide
attached to the AHCI controller configured in either AHCI mode (pass-through) or RAID mode.
Note: The server system’s BIOS SETUP utility is used to select either AHCI or RAID modes for the AHCI
controller.
 Intel
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RSTe operating system SCU/RAID driver. This driver provides a simple non-RAID (pass-
through) as well as a full RAID solution. This manages/controls the SAS/SATA devices attached to the
SCU ports.
Note: The SCU controller only has a RAID mode. Consequently, when booting from the SCU controller,
the SCU pre-boot driver (Legacy OROM or UEFI driver) will be required.
 Intel
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RSTe GUI (Graphical User Interface). This is an application that can be used to manage RAID
arrays and volumes on drives attached (only) to the AHCI and SCU controllers.
 Rstcli/rstcli64
 CIM plugin for Microsoft Windows*
1.4 Features Introduction
Some of the RAID features supported by Intel
®
RSTe include RAID level 0 (striping), RAID level 1
(mirroring), RAID level 5 (striping with parity), and RAID level 10 (striping and mirroring).
The new features introduced with Intel
®
RSTe include but are not limited to:
 RAID support for SAS devices
 SCU support for RSTe RAID 0/1/5/10
 Pass-through drives
 Hot Plug with I/O
 Hot Spare Disk
 Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert
 Rebuild and Migration Check Pointing
 NCQ (SATA) and CQ (SAS) support
 UEFI using common metadata
 SAS Expanders
 SMART Support
 Bad Block Management
 SAS and SATA controller configuration rules
 SAS and SATA drive roaming
 RAID Volume roaming between Linux* and Microsoft Windows*
 On Line Capacity Expansion
 Large Stripe Size Support
 RAID-Ready
 Disk Coercion
 Manual and Auto Rebuild
 Instant Initialization
 Patrol Read
 SGPIO for SAS and SATA
 Volume creation/verify
 Selectable Boot Volume
 Email Alerting
 CIM
 RAID Level Migration (RAID 0, 1, or 10 to RAID 5)
 Dirty Stripe Journaling
 Partial Parity Logging (PPL)
 Verify and Repair
 Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert
 Install/Uninstall Utility