User`s manual

AOC-USAS2-L8i/L8e Add-on Card User’s Manual

Creating an Integrated Mirroring Volume ................................................4-8

Creating an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring and

Striping Volume.......................................................................................4-9

Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE ..........................4-10

4-6 Hot Spare Disks...............................................................................4-11

Creating Hot Spare Disks......................................................................4-11

Deleting Hot Spare Disks......................................................................4-12

4-7 Other Configuration Tasks .............................................................4-12

Viewing Volume Properties ...................................................................4-12

Running a Consistency Check..............................................................4-13

Activating an Array................................................................................4-13

Deleting an Array ..................................................................................4-14

Locating Disk Drives in a Volume .........................................................4-14

Selecting a Boot Disk............................................................................4-15

Chapter 5 Integrated Striping........................................................5-1

5-1 Introduction.........................................................................................5-1

5-2 IS Features.........................................................................................5-2

5-3 IS Description.....................................................................................5-2

5-4 Integrated Striping Firmware ...........................................................5-3

Metadata Support....................................................................................5-3

SMART Support......................................................................................5-4

Disk Write Caching .................................................................................5-4

5-5 Fusion-MPT Support.........................................................................5-4

5-6 IS Configuration Overview...............................................................5-4

5-7 Creating IS Volumes.........................................................................5-4

5-8 Other Configuration Tasks ...............................................................5-6

Viewing IS Volume Properties.................................................................5-6

Activating an Array..................................................................................5-6

Deleting an Array ....................................................................................5-7

Locating a Disk in a Volume....................................................................5-7

Selecting a Boot Disk..............................................................................5-8

Chapter 6 Using the Configuration Utility .............................6-1

6-1 Hardware and Software Requirements..........................................6-1

6-2 Commands and Interface Description ...........................................6-2

Common Command-Line Parameters ....................................................6-3

CREATE Command ................................................................................6-3

Command Line.....................................................................................6-4