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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Table of Contents Introduction Overview .............................................................................................................v Product Features.................................................................................................v Operating Systems Supported ............................................................................v Manual Images..............................................................................
Add-on Card User's Guide Monitoring Storage Devices ............................................................................ 4-2 Maintaining Storage Configurations ................................................................ 4-2 4-2 Hardware and Software Requirements................................................................ 4-2 4-3 Installation ............................................................................................................
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Introduction Overview This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's USAS-H4ir Add on Card to their system.
Add-on Card User's Guide Contacting SuperMicro Headquarters Address: SuperMicro Computer, Inc. 980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: marketing@supermicro.com (General Information) support@supermicro.com (Technical Support) Web Site: www.supermicro.com Europe Address: SuperMicro Computer B.V. Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0) 73-6400390 Fax: +31 (0) 73-6416525 Email: sales@supermicro.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components. 1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent damage to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from ESD.
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors 2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers 3 1 A PCB EDGE C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 11 14 13 16 15 18 17 20 19 22 21 24 23 26 25 PCB EDGE A B C D E F G H J K L M N P R T U V W Y AA AB AC AD AE AF 2 A C Front Connectors 1. Internal SAS Connector 2. External SAS Connector 3.
Add-on Card User's Guide 2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions 1. Internal SAS Connector (Drive 0-3) The Internal SAS port connects to the backplane allowing the motherboard to access the hard drives. This connector supports up to four HDD ports. This card supports SAS, SATA1, and SATA2 drives. Use a single port SAS "ipass" cable (Super Micro order number CBL - 0108L-02). 2. External SAS Connector (Drive 4-7) The Exteranal SAS port provides connection to servers.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions LED2 A PCB EDGE C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 11 14 13 16 15 18 17 20 19 22 21 24 23 26 25 PCB EDGE A B C D E F G H J K L M N P R T U V W Y AA AB AC AD AE AF D13 A C JP5 Explanation of Jumpers To modify the operation of the backplane, 3 2 1 3 2 1 Connector Pins jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings.
Add-on Card User's Guide RAID Minimum Drive Requirements Use the following chart to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 3 WebBios Configuration 3-1 Introduction The WebBios Configuration manages RAID configurations on SAS controllers. The utility works independently of the operating system. 3-2 Accessing the WebBIOS To start the WebBIOS Configuration: 1. When prompted during bootup, press CTRL + H. 2. In the Adapter Selection screen, select an adapter. 3. Click Start.
Add-on Card User's Guide 3-4 WebBIOS Configuration Wizard - Auto Configuration When using either Auto Configuration setting, do the following: 1. When prompted to review the new configuration, review the settings. 2. Click Accept or Back to change any settings. (Auto Configuration with Redundancy creates a RAID 5 configuration if at least three disks are available. If only two disks are available, the setup creates RAID 1.) 3.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Access Policy: Select Read/Write, Read Only, or Blocked. Read Policy: Use Ahead, Normal, or Adaptive. Write Policy: Use WBack, WThru, or Bad BBU IO Policy: Use this setting to read to a specific virtual disk. Cached mode reads to buffered in cached memory and in Direct mode reads are not buffered. Disk Cache Policy: Enable, Disable, and Unchanged. Disable BGI: Selecting Yes disables background initiation. Select Size: Select the size for the virtual disk. 6.
Add-on Card User's Guide Virtual Disk Properties This section gives an overview of the virtual disk properties accessed in the WebBIOS Main screen. The Properties panel shows the virtual disk RAID level and other defining information. Before changes settings, you should make a backup of the information. You can change the settings by doing any of the following: Locate: Sets the designated LEDs on the physical drives of the virtual disk (requires SAFTE support).
Safety Information and Technical Specifications System Event Information This section gives an overview of the System Event properties. Do the following to view event information: 1. Click Events in the WebBIOS main screen. 2. Choose an Event Locale from the menu. 3. Select an Event Class of Information, Warning, Critical, Fatal, or Dead and choose the number of events to view, and then click Go.
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Overview and Installation MegaRAID Storage Manager software is a configuration and monitoring utility used with the Embedded MegaRAID Software. This chapter provides a brief overview of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software and explains how to install it on the supported operating systems.
Add-on Card User's Guide You can use the Configuration Wizard Auto Configuration mode to automatically create the best possible configuration with the available hardware. You can use the Guided Configuration mode, which asks you a few brief questions about the configuration, and then creates it for you. Or you can use the Manual Configuration mode, which gives you complete control over all aspects of the storage configuration.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 4-3 Installation This section explains how to install (or reinstall) MegaRAID Storage Manager software on your workstation or server for the supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, and SUSE Linux. 5.3.
Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 4-1: Customer Information Screen 4. Enter your user name and organization name. In the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: – 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.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 4-2: Customer Information Screen 7. Select one of the Setup options. The options are fully explained in the screen text. – Normally, you would select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server. – 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.
Add-on Card User's Guide connect to a remote server unless you first edit the startupui.bat file. Specifically, you must add the IP address of the remote server to the end of the startupui.bat file. For example, to connect to a remote framework on server 192.168.0.10, add the IP address to the end of startupui.bat as shown in this example: start JRE\ bin\javaw -classpath .;GUI.jar GUI.VivaldiStartupDialog ajsgyqkj=71244 192.168.0.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Linux Error Messages One or more of the following messages may appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system: • 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.
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 5 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus This chapter explains how to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and menus. 5-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps to start MegaRAID Storage Manager software and view the main window: 1.
Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 5-1: Select Server Window If the circle in the server icon is yellow instead of green, it means that the server is running in a degraded state—for example, because a disk drive used in a virtual disk has failed. If the circle is red, the storage configuration in the server has failed.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 5-2: Select Server Window 3. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu. – Select Full Access if you need to both view the current configuration and change the configuration. – Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the configuration. 4. Enter your user name and password, and click Login. Note: If the computer is networked, this is the login to the computer itself, not the network login.
Add-on Card User's Guide 5-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window This section describes the MegaRAID Storage Manager window. Figure 5-3: Storage Manager The following topics describe the panels and menu options that appear in this window.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Physical/Logical View Panel The left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays either the Physical view or the Logical view of the system and the devices in it, depending on which tab is selected. • The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system. At the top of the hierarchy is the system itself. One or more controllers are installed in the system. Each controller has one or more ports.
Add-on Card User's Guide Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel The right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window has either two or three tabs, depending on what kind of device is selected in the left panel. • The Properties tab 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 and the device port count.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Menu Bar Here are brief descriptions of the main selections on the MegaRAID Storage Manager menu bar. File Menu The File menu has an Exit option for exiting from the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. It also has a Rescan option for updating the display in the MegaRAID Storage Manager window. (Rescan is seldom required; the display normally updates automatically.
Add-on Card User's Guide Log Menu The Log menu includes options for saving and clearing the message log. Help Menu On the Help menu you can select Help, Help to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager software online help file. You can select Help, About to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. Note: When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software online help, you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 6 Configuration You use MegaRAID Storage Manager software to create and modify storage configurations. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 storage configurations are supported. Important: LSI recommends that you do not use both SAS and SATA drives in the same array. Using different drive interfaces in this way could cause unpredictable behavior, decreased performance, an increased error count, and decreased MTBF.
Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-1: First Screen Configuration Wizard The menu lists three configuration modes: • Auto Configuration automatically creates an optimal configuration from the available disk drives. • Manual Configuration gives you the greatest level of control in creating a new virtual disk. • Guided Configuration asks you a few simple questions about what kind of configuration you want and then automatically creates it from the available disk drives.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters This section describes the Virtual Disk Parameters that you can set when you use the Guided Configuration or Manual Configuration modes of the Configuration Wizard. You should change these parameters only if you have a specific reason for doing so. It is usually best to leave them at their default settings. • Stripe Size: A stripe size of 64 Kbytes is supported.
Add-on Card User's Guide Using Auto Configuration Auto Configuration is the quickest and simplest way to create a new storage configuration. When you select Auto Configuration mode on the first Configuration Wizard screen, the Configuration Wizard creates the best configuration possible using the available physical disks. Figure 6-2: Auto Configuration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Auto Configuration mode: 1.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 2. Select an initialization option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window: – No Initialization: The new configuration is not initialized, and the existing data on the disks is not overwritten. – Fast Initialization: MegaRAID Storage Manager software quickly writes zeroes to the first and last 8 Mbyte regions of the new virtual disk. – Full Initialization: A complete initialization is done on the new configuration.
Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 6-3: First Guided Conguration Screen Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in Guided Configuration mode: 1. Select a redundancy option at the top of the Guided Configuration window: – Redundancy Only: Create a configuration only if redundancy (RAID 1 or RAID 5) is possible. – Redundancy when possible: Create a redundant configuration if possible. Otherwise, create a non-redundant configuration. – No Redundancy: Create a non-redundant configuration. 2.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 3. Select a maximum number of virtual disks to be created. The Configuration Wizard may not be able to create as many virtual disks as you want, depending on the current configuration and the number of virtual disks that have already been created. 4. Click Next to continue to the next window. Figure 6-4: Second Guided Configuration Screen 5. Change the default volume parameters in this window, if needed.
Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0 Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. Figure 6-5 shows the first screen that appears when you select Manual Configuration. Figure 6-5: Manual Configuration - First Manual Configuration Screen 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, select two or more available drives in the left panel.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications Figure 6-6: Manual Configuration - Defining a Virtual Disk The Arrays with Free Space menu lists the new array that you just defined, plus any existing arrays with holes (free space) that could be used for a new configuration. 4. From the Arrays with Free Space menu, select the array to use for the new virtual disk. 5. In the right panel, select RAID 0 as the RAID level. 6.
Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1 Follow these steps to create a RAID 1 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard: 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, shown in Figure 6-5, select two available drives in the left panel. Click the Right Arrow button to move the selected drives to the right panel.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 4. To remove a hotspare from an array, select it in the right panel and click Remove HotSpare. 5. Click Next. The next Configuration Wizard window appears, as shown in Figure 6-6. The Arrays with Free Space menu lists the new array(s) that you just defined, plus any existing arrays with holes (free space) that could be used for a new configuration. 6. Select the array to use for the new virtual disk. 7. In the right panel, select RAID 1 as the RAID level. 8.
Add-on Card User's Guide Using Manual Configuration: RAID 5 Follow these steps to create a RAID 5 storage configuration using the Manual Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. 1. In the first Manual Configuration window, select three available drives in the left panel. Click the Right Arrow button to move the selected drives to the right panel.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 9. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Summary window appears. 10. Review the configuration shown in the Virtual Disk Summary window. If you want to change something, click Back and change the configuration parameters. 11. Click Finish to accept the configuration and start the initialization process (unless you selected No Initialization earlier).
Add-on Card User's Guide 10. Click Accept to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk. Note: Click the Reclaim button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just defined. 11. Click Next to continue with the next configuration step. The Virtual Disk Summary window appears. 12. Review the configuration shown in the window. If you want to change something, click Back and change the configuration parameters. 13.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications For a RAID 10 array, the entire capacity of the array is automatically used for the new virtual disk. You cannot define another virtual disk on this array. 9. (Optional) Change the other Virtual Disk Properties, if necessary. For more information, see Section , “Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters.
Add-on Card User's Guide 6-3 Changing Adjustable Task Rates Follow these steps if you need to change the adjustable rates for rebuilds and other system tasks that run in the background: Note: LSI recommends that you leave the adjustable task rates at their default settings to achieve the best system performance. If you raise the task rates above the defaults, foreground tasks will run more slowly and it may seem that the system is not responding.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties You can change a virtual disk’s Read Policy, Write Policy, and other properties at any time after the virtual disk is created. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window. 2. In the right panel, select the Properties tab, and then select Set Virtual Disk Properties. A list of Virtual Disk Properties appears in the right panel. 3.
Add-on Card User's Guide 6-6 Saving a Storage Configuration to Disk You can save an existing controller configuration to a file so you can apply it to another controller. To save a configuration file, follow these steps: 1. Select a controller icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window. 2. On the menu bar, select Operations, Advanced Operations, Configuration, Save Configuration. The Save dialog box appears. 3.
Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration When you replace a controller, or when you want to duplicate an existing storage configuration on a new controller, you can add a saved configuration to the controller. Caution: When you add a saved configuration to a replacement controller, be sure that the number and size of the physical disks connected to the controller are exactly the same as when the configuration was saved.
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