Chapter 4 Information About Hardware of M3000 Server 103
Hardware RAID Function
RAID technology enables the construction of a logical volume made up of several
physical disks to provide data redundancy, improved performance, or both.
The on-board SAS controller of the M3000 server which consists of the SPARC64
VII+ processors supports RAID 1 (mirroring) volumes using the Oracle Solaris OS
raidctl utility.
Requirements for Hardware RAID Support
The table below shows the requirements for the hardware RAID support.
For notes on hardware RAID, see “Notes on Hardware RAID” on page 99.
Hardware Documentation Updates
TABLE 4-3 lists known documentation updates.
TABLE 4-2 Requirements for Hardware RAID Support
Item Description
Required Oracle Solaris OS
patches
At this time, no patches are required.
Required ESF (Enhanced
Support Facility) patches
3.2 or later
XSCF firmware XCP 1101 or later
RAID level RAID 1 (IM: Integrated Mirror) only.
Two member disks can be configured per RAID volume.
Disk drive The member disks in a single RAID volume shall be made
up of disk drives of the same capacity and of the same
rotational speed.
Solid State Drive (SSD) is not supported.
Number of RAID volumes Up to two RAID volumes on a server.
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