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MegaRAID® Release 3.6 provides enhanced features and

functionality to existing MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters. This

program bundles elements across four key cornerstones of

leadership, including Features and Usability, Data Protection

and Availability, Performance, and Green. Focusing on the

latest technology trends and customer requirements, these

four cornerstones reaffirm LSI’s commitment to customer

success and market leadership.

MegaRAID

Release 3.6

Features & Benefits

• Solid State Drive Support

• SSD Guard™

• Dimmer Switch™

• VMware ESXi Virtualization Support

The new features and functions specically related to

MegaRAID Release 3.6 include:

• UEFI 2.0 Support for New

Intel Platforms

• SAS Tape Drive Support

• OS Enhancements to Solaris X86

and FreeBSD Support

The MegaRAID SAS 87XX and 87XX series adapters are supported under Release 3.6 .

To download the latest MegaRAID Release, visit www.lsi.com/support.

Solid State Drive Support

MegaRAID SAS 87XX and 88XX series

adapters now support Solid State Drives

(SSD), high-performance plug-and-play

data storage devices that contain no

moving parts. Advantages of using SSDs

compared to Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are faster start-up, extremely low

latency, near zero noise pollution, greater temperature range, higher

reliability, and faster seek times. SSDs provide performance benets

for applications with primarily random access patterns such as online

transaction processing, databases, and web servers.

With Release 3.6, MegaRAID management applications are able

to identify and manage SSD devices with ease. MegaRAID Storage

Manager (MSM) is a comprehensive set of management tools with the

ability to control and manipulate solid state drives just as is possible

with hard drives. MSM monitors for proper usage of SSD devices and

allows for any combination of SAS HDDs, SATA HDDs, SAS SSDs, and

SATA SSDs to be used in the same system.

The combination of MegaRAID adapters and SSDs are most eective

for server applications and server systems where I/O response time

is crucial.

PERFORMANCE

SSD Guard™

Solid State Drives are renowned for their

reliability and performance. SSD Guard™,

unique to MegaRAID, increases the reliability

of SSDs by automatically copying data from a

drive with potential to fail to a designated

spare or newly inserted drive. A predictive failure event notication, or

S.M.A.R.T command, automatically initiates this rebuild to preserve the

data on an SSD whose health or performance falls below par. This new

feature will greatly benet users employing a RAID 0 conguration due

to the added data protection.

DATA PROTECTION AND AVAILABILITY

Summary of content (2 pages)

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MegaRAID® Release 3.6 Features & Benefits MegaRAID® Release 3.6 provides enhanced features and functionality to existing MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters. This program bundles elements across four key cornerstones of leadership, including Features and Usability, Data Protection and Availability, Performance, and Green. Focusing on the latest technology trends and customer requirements, these four cornerstones reaffirm LSI’s commitment to customer success and market leadership.
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Green Dimmer Switch™ As powering and cooling hard drives becomes a major cost burden in today’s data centers, Dimmer Switch promotes ways to reduce the power consumption of a MegaRAID adapter’s attached devices. With MegaRAID Release 3.6, any unconfigured drive connected to a MegaRAID adapter will be spun down after 30 minutes of inactivity in order to reduce its power requirements and more efficiently share resources.