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Table of Contents
Main Page
Default Chapter
3
Table of Contents
3
Chapter 1: Overview
12
SAS Technology
12
March
12
Serial-Attached SCSI Device Interface
13
Serial ATA III Features
13
Solid State Drive Features
13
SSD Guard
14
Dimmer Switch Features
14
UEFI 2.0 Support
14
Configuration Scenarios
14
Valid Drive MIX Configurations with Hdds and Ssds
16
Technical Support
17
Chapter 2: Introduction to RAID
18
Components and Features
18
Drive Group
18
Virtual Drive
18
Fault Tolerance
19
Multipathing
19
Consistency Check
20
Replace
20
Background Initialization
21
Patrol Read
21
Disk Striping
21
Disk Mirroring
22
Parity
22
Disk Spanning
23
Hot Spares
24
Disk Rebuilds
25
Rebuild Rate
25
Hot Swap
26
Drive States
26
Virtual Drive States
26
Beep Codes
26
Enclosure Management
27
RAID Levels
27
Summary of RAID Levels
27
Selecting a RAID Level
28
Raid 0
28
Raid 1
29
Raid 5
30
Raid 6
30
Raid 00
31
Raid 10
32
Raid 50
33
Raid 60
34
RAID Configuration Strategies
35
Maximizing Fault Tolerance
36
Maximizing Performance
36
Maximizing Storage Capacity
37
RAID Availability
38
RAID Availability Concept
38
Configuration Planning
39
Number of Drives
39
March
40
Chapter 3: Safestore Disk Encryption
41
Terminology
41
Workflow
42
Enable Security
42
Change Security
43
Create Secure Virtual Drives
43
Import a Foreign Configuration
44
Instant Secure Erase
44
Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility
46
Overview
46
Starting the Ctrl-R Utility
46
Exiting the Ctrl-R Utility
46
Ctrl-R Utility Keystrokes
47
Ctrl-R Utility Menus
47
VD Mgmt Menu
47
PD Mgmt Menu
48
Ctrl Mgmt Menu
49
Properties Menu
50
Foreign View Menu
51
Managing Software Licensing
52
Managing Advanced Software Options
52
Managing Advanced Software Summary
55
Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key
56
Activating a Trial Software
56
Activating an Unlimited Key
57
Creating a Storage Configuration
57
Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties
59
Creating a Cachecade Virtual Drive
60
Modifying a Cachecade Virtual Drive
62
Creating a Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive
63
Modifying a Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive
64
Enabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
65
Disabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
65
Enabling or Disabling SSD Caching on Multiple Virtual Drives
66
Deleting a Virtual Drive with SSD Caching Enabled
67
Clearing the Configuration
67
LSI Safestore Encryption Services
68
Enabling Drive Security
68
Changing Security Settings
69
Disabling Drive Security
70
Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration
71
Foreign Configurations in Cable Pull and Drive Removal Scenarios
73
Discarding Preserved Cache
74
Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good Drives
75
Converting Unconfigured Good Drives to JBOD Drives
76
Viewing and Changing Device Properties
77
Viewing Controller Properties
77
Modifying Controller Properties
78
Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties
80
Deleting a Virtual Drive
81
Deleting a Virtual Drive Group
81
Expanding a Virtual Drive
81
Erasing a Virtual Drive
82
Managing Link Speed
83
Managing Power Save Settings for the Controller
84
Setting Advanced Power Save Settings
85
March
85
Managing Power Save Settings for the Drive Group
86
Managing BBU Information
87
Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
88
Securing a Drive Group
88
Setting LED Blinking
89
Performing a Break Mirror Operation
89
Managing Storage Configurations
90
Initializing a Virtual Drive
90
Running a Consistency Check
90
Rebuilding a Physical Drive
91
Performing a Copyback Operation
91
Removing a Physical Drive
92
Creating Global Hot Spares
92
Removing a Hot Spare Drive
93
Making a Drive Offline
93
Making a Drive Online
93
Instant Secure Erase
93
Erasing a Physical Drive
93
Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
95
Starting the HII Configuration Utility
95
Critical Boot Error Message
96
Managing Configurations
96
Creating a Virtual Drive from a Profile
97
Manually Creating a Virtual Drive
100
Creating a Cachecade Virtual Drive
104
Viewing Drive Group Properties
105
Viewing Global Hot Spare Drives
105
Clearing a Configuration
106
Make Unconfigured Good and Make JBOD
106
Make Unconfigured Good
107
Make JBOD
107
Managing Foreign Configurations
107
Previewing and Importing a Foreign Configuration
108
Clearing a Foreign Configuration
110
Managing Controllers
110
Viewing Advanced Controller Management Options
112
Viewing Advanced Controller Properties
113
Managing Megaraid Advanced Software Options
115
Scheduling a Consistency Check
116
Saving or Clearing Controller Events
117
Enabling or Disabling Drive Security
118
Changing a Security Key
120
Saving the TTY Log
121
Managing and Changing Link Speeds
122
Setting Cache and Memory Properties
123
Running a Patrol Read
124
Changing Power Save Settings
125
Setting Emergency Spare Properties
126
Changing Task Rates
127
Upgrading the Firmware
128
Managing Virtual Drives
130
Selecting Virtual Drive Operations
131
Locating Physical Drives in a Virtual Drive
131
Deleting a Virtual Drive
132
Reconfiguring a Virtual Drive
132
Initializing a Virtual Drive
134
Erasing a Virtual Drive
134
Enabling and Disabling SSD Caching
135
Securing a Virtual Drive
135
Running a Consistency Check
135
March
135
Expanding a Virtual Drive
136
Disabling Protection on a Virtual Drive
136
Managing Cachecade Virtual Drives
136
Viewing Associated Drives
137
Viewing and Managing Virtual Drive Properties and Options
137
Managing Physical Drives
140
Performing Drive Operations
141
Locating a Drive
142
Making a Drive Unconfigured Bad, Unconfigured Good, or JBOD
142
Replacing a Drive
143
Placing a Drive Offline
144
Placing a Drive Online
144
Assigning a Global Hotspare Drive
144
Assigning a Dedicated Hotspare Drive
145
Unassigning a Hotspare Drive
145
Initializing or Erasing a Drive
146
Rebuilding a Drive
147
Securely Erasing a Drive
147
Viewing Advanced Drive Properties
147
Managing Hardware Components
149
Managing Batteries
151
Setting Automatic Learn Cycle Properties
153
Managing Enclosures
153
Chapter 6: Storcli
155
Overview
155
Support for Megacli Commands
155
Devices Supported by the Storcli Tool
155
Installation
155
Installing Storcli on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
156
Installing Storcli on Linux Operating Systems
156
Installing Storcli on Ubuntu Operating Systems
156
Installing Storcli on Vmware Operating Systems
157
Installing Storcli on Freebsd Operating Systems
157
Installing Storcli on Microsoft EFI
157
Installing Storcli on Solaris Operating Systems
157
Storcli Command Syntax
157
Working with the Storage Command Line Tool
159
System Commands
159
System Show Commands
159
Controller Commands
160
Show and Set Controller Properties Commands
160
Controller Show Commands
164
Controller Background Tasks Operation Commands
165
Premium Feature Key Commands
168
Controller Security Commands
169
Flashing Controller Firmware Command
170
Controller Cache Command
170
Drive Commands
171
Drive Show Commands
171
Missing Drives Commands
172
Set Drive State Commands
172
Drive Initialization Commands
173
Drive Firmware Download Commands
174
Locate Drives Commands
174
Prepare to Remove Drives Commands
174
Drive Security Command
175
Drive Secure Erase Commands
175
March
175
Rebuild Drives Commands
176
Drive Copyback Commands
176
Hot Spare Drive Commands
177
Virtual Drive Commands
178
Add Virtual Drives Commands
178
Delete Virtual Drives Commands
181
Virtual Drive Show Commands
182
Preserved Cache Commands
182
Change Virtual Properties Commands
183
Virtual Drive Initialization Commands
184
Virtual Drive Erase Commands
185
Virtual Drive Migration Commands
185
Virtual Drive Consistency Check Commands
186
Background Initialization Commands
187
Virtual Drive Expansion Commands
188
Display the Bad Block Table
189
Clear the LDBBM Table Entires
189
Foreign Configurations Commands
189
BIOS-Related Commands
190
OPROM BIOS Commands
190
Drive Group Commands
191
Drive Group Show Commands
191
Dimmer Switch Commands
192
Change Virtual Drive Power Settings Commands
192
BBU Commands
193
Cachevault Commands
195
Enclosure Commands
195
PHY Commands
196
Logging Commands
197
Frequently Used Tasks
198
Showing the Version of the Storage Command Line Tool
198
Showing Storcli Help
198
Showing System Summary Information
198
Showing Free Space in a Controller
198
Adding Virtual Drives
198
Setting the Cache Policy in a Virtual Drive
199
Showing Virtual Drive Information
199
Deleting Virtual Drives
199
Flashing Controller Firmware
199
Chapter 7: Megaraid Storage Manager Overview and Installation
201
Overview
201
Creating Storage Configurations
201
Monitoring Storage Devices
201
Maintaining Storage Configurations
201
Hardware and Software Requirements
201
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager
203
Prerequisite for Megaraid Storage Manager Installation
203
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows
203
Setup Options
208
Uninstalling the Megaraid Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows
209
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software through Control Panel
209
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software Using Command Prompt
209
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software Using the Megaraid Storage Manager Uninstallation Utility
209
Installing and Supporting Megaraid Storage Manager Software on Solaris 10, 11, and SPARC
209
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software for Solaris 10 X86
209
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software for Solaris 10 SPARC
210
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software for Solaris 11 X86
210
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software for Solaris 11 SPARC
210
March
210
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software on Solaris 10 (U5, U6, U7, U8, U9, and U10), 11 (X86 and X64), and SPARC
211
Prerequisites for Installing Megaraid Storage Manager on the RHEL6.X X64 Operating System
211
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager Software on RHEL or SLES/SUSE Linux
211
Linux Error Messages
213
Kernel Upgrade
213
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager Software on RHEL or SLES/SUSE Linux
213
Executing a CIM Plug-In on Red hat Enterprise Linux 5
213
Executing a CIM Plug-In on Red hat Enterprise Linux 5
214
Megaraid Storage Manager Software Customization
214
Stopping the Pop-Up Notification Process
215
Windows Operating System
215
Linux, Solaris X86, and Solaris SPARC Operating Systems
215
Restarting the Pop-Up Notification Process
215
Installing and Supporting Megaraid Storage Manager Software on Vmware
215
Prerequisites for Installing Megaraid Storage Manager for Vmware
216
Installing Megaraid Storage Manager on Vmware ESX (Vmware Classic)
216
Uninstalling Megaraid Storage Manager for Vmware
216
Megaraid Storage Manager Support on the Vmware Esxi Operating System
216
Limitations of Installation and Configuration
217
Differences in the Megaraid Storage Manager Software for Vmware Esxi
217
Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
218
Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on the Linux Operating System
218
Running the CIM SAS Storage Provider on Pegasus
219
Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on Windows
219
Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent
220
Prerequisite for LSI SNMP Agent RPM Installation
220
Installing a SNMP Agent on Windows
220
Installing SNMP Agent
220
Installing SNMP Service for Windows
220
Configuring SNMP Service on the Server Side
221
Installing SNMP Service for the Windows 2008 Operating System
221
Configuring SNMP Service on the Server Side for the Windows 2008 Operating System
221
Prerequisite for Installing SNMP Agent on Linux Server
221
Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on Linux
222
Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on Solaris
223
Prerequisites
223
Installing SNMP on Solaris
223
LSI SAS SNMP MIB Location
223
Starting, Stopping, and Checking the Status of the LSI SAS SNMP Agent
223
Configuring Snmpd.conf
224
Configuring SNMP Traps
225
Uninstalling the SNMP Package
226
Megaraid Storage Manager Remotely Connecting to Vmware ESX
226
Prerequisites to Running Megaraid Storage Manager Remote Administration
226
Chapter 8: Megaraid Storage Manager Window and Menus
228
Starting the Megaraid Storage Manager Software
228
Discovery and Login
228
LDAP Support
232
Configuring LDAP Support Settings
234
Megaraid Storage Manager Main Menu
235
Dashboard / Physical View/ Logical View
235
Physical Drive Temperature
237
Shield State
238
Shield State Physical View
238
Logical View Shield State
239
Viewing the Physical Drive Properties
239
Viewing Server Profile of a Drive in Shield State
240
Displaying the Virtual Drive Properties
241
Parity Size
241
Mirror Data Size
242
Metadata Size
243
Emergency Spare
243
Emergency Spare for Physical Drives
243
Emergency Spare Property for Controllers
244
Commissioned Hotspare
245
SSD Disk Cache Policy
246
Virtual Drive Settings
247
Set Virtual Drive Properties
248
Non-SED Secure Erase Support
249
Group Show Progress for Drive Erase
251
Virtual Drive Erase
251
Group Show Progress for Virtual Drive Erase
253
Rebuild Write Cache
254
Background Suspend/Resume Support
254
Enclosure Properties
256
GUI Elements in the Megaraid Storage Manager Window and Menus
257
Device Icons
257
Properties and Graphical View Tabs
258
Event Log Panel
259
Menu Bar
259
Chapter 9: Configuration
261
Creating a New Configuration
261
Selecting Virtual Drive Settings
261
Optimum Controller Settings for Cachecade
262
Optimum Controller Settings for Fast Path
262
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration
262
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
266
Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good
272
Converting JBOD to Unconfigured Good from the Megaraid Storage Manager Main Menu
273
Adding Hot Spare Drives
273
Changing Adjustable Task Rates
274
Changing Power Settings
275
Recovering and Clearing Punctured Block Entries
277
Changing Virtual Drive Properties
277
Changing a Virtual Drive Configuration
278
Accessing the Modify Drive Group Wizard
279
Adding a Drive or Drives to a Configuration
280
Removing a Drive from a Configuration
283
Replacing a Drive
284
Migrating the RAID Level of a Virtual Drive
285
New Drives Attached to a Megaraid Controller
288
Deleting a Virtual Drive
289
Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices
290
Alert Delivery Methods
290
Vivaldi Log/Megaraid Storage Manager Log
290
System Log
291
Pop-Up Notification
292
Email Notification
292
Configuring Alert Notifications
293
March
293
Editing Alert Delivery Methods
295
Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events
296
Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events
297
Roll Back to Default Individual Event Configuration
298
Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server
298
Authenticating the SMTP Server
299
Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
300
Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
301
Removing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
301
Saving Backup Configurations
301
Loading Backup Configurations
301
Monitoring Server Events
302
Monitoring Controllers
302
Monitoring Drives
303
Running a Patrol Read
304
Patrol Read Task Rates
306
Monitoring Virtual Drives
306
Monitoring Enclosures
308
Monitoring Battery Backup Units
308
Battery Learn Cycle
309
Setting Automatic Learn Cycle Properties
310
Starting a Learn Cycle Manually
311
Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes
311
Chapter 11: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations
313
Initializing a Virtual Drive
313
Running a Group Initialization
313
Running a Consistency Check
314
Setting the Consistency Check Settings
315
Scheduling a Consistency Check
315
Running a Group Consistency Check
317
Scanning for New Drives
318
Rebuilding a Drive
318
New Drives Attached to a Megaraid Controller
319
Making a Drive Offline or Missing
319
Removing a Drive
320
Upgrading Firmware
320
Chapter 12: Using Megaraid Advanced Software
322
Megaraid Advanced Software
322
Megaraid Software Licensing
322
Managing Megaraid Advanced Software
322
Activation Key
325
Advanced Megaraid Software Status Summary
325
Application Scenarios and Messages
326
Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key
327
Activating a Trial Software
328
Activating an Unlimited Key
329
Reusing the Activation Key
330
Securing Advanced Megaraid Software
330
Deactivate Trial Software
331
Using the Megaraid Cachecade Advanced Software
331
Using the Megaraid Cachecade Pro 2.0 Software
335
Modifying the Cachecade Virtual Drive Properties
338
Enabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
339
Disabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
340
Enabling or Disabling SSD Caching on Multiple Virtual Drives
340
Modifying a Cachecade Drive Group
341
March
341
Clearing Configuration on Cachecade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drives
342
Removing Blocked Access
342
Deleting a Virtual Drive with SSD Caching Enabled
343
Fast Path Advanced Software
344
Setting Fast Path Options
344
LSI Megaraid Safestore Encryption Services
345
Enabling Drive Security
345
Changing Security Settings
348
Disabling Drive Security
349
Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration
350
Foreign Configurations in Cable Pull and Drive Removal Scenarios
351
Managing Link Speed
352
Appendix A: Events and Messages
355
Appendix B: 3Ware CLI Commands to Storcli Command Conversion
374
Virtual Drive Commands
378
Enclosure Commands
382
Miscellaneous Commands
383
Appendix C: Megacli Commands to Storcli Command Conversion
385
Consistency Check Commands
388
Battery Commands
389
Event Log Properties Commands
396
Appendix D: Unsupported Commands in Embedded Megaraid
398
Appendix E: CLI Error Messages
400
Appendix F: History of Technical Changes
404
Glossary
406
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