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Figure 66.
Removing a Drive in 3DM2
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ou can now remove the drive from your system.
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Result of Removing Drive from Unit in 3DM2
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
3
About this User Guide
8
Exceptions to this Document for Mac os Users
8
How this User Guide Is Organized
9
Conventions
10
Screenshots
10
Using the 3Ware HTML Bookshelf
11
Chapter 1. Introducing the LSI 3Ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
13
What's New for the 10.2 Release
13
Highlights of the 10.2 Release
14
System Requirements
15
Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
17
RAID Concepts
17
Available RAID Configurations
18
Determining Which RAID Level to Use
24
Using Drive Capacity Efficiently
25
3Ware Tools for Configuration and Management
26
Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features
27
Chapter 2. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
30
Basic Steps for Creating a Unit
30
Specifying a Hot Spare
38
Making Drives Visible to the Operating System
39
Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence
39
What Next
39
Chapter 3. Getting Started with Your 3Ware RAID Controller
40
Getting Started for PC Users
40
Getting Started for Mac os Users
42
Initial Settings for Policies and Background Tasks
43
Chapter 4. 3Ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction
46
Starting 3BM
46
Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility
48
Working in the 3BM Screens
49
Adjusting BIOS Option Settings
52
Displaying Information about the Controller and Related Devices
54
Getting Help While Using 3BM
55
Chapter 5. 3DM2 (3Ware Disk Manager 2) Introduction
56
Browser Requirements for 3DM2
57
Installing 3DM2
57
Starting 3DM2 and Logging in
57
Logging in to the 3DM2 Web Application
58
Managing the 3DM2 Daemon under Freebsd, Linux, Mac OS, Opensolaris, and Vmware
61
Starting the 3DM2 Process under Microsoft Windows
62
Viewing 3DM2 Remotely Using a Web Browser
63
Working with the 3DM2 Screens
63
3DM2 Menus
64
Viewing Information about Different Controllers
67
Refreshing the Screen
67
Description of 3DM2 Pages
68
Setting up 3DM2 Preferences
70
Setting and Changing 3DM2 Passwords
70
Managing E-Mail Event Notification
71
Configuring the Vmware Firewall to Allow Email Notification
73
Enabling and Disabling Remote Access
73
Setting the Listening Port
74
Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes
74
Controlling Command Logging in 3DM2
74
Chapter 6 Configuring Your Controller
77
Viewing Information about a Controller
77
About Controller Policies
79
Viewing Controller Policies
81
Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy
83
Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support
83
Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving
86
Enabling and Setting up Staggered Spin-Up
86
Viewing Information about a Phy
87
Changing the Phy Link Speed
89
Chapter 7. Configuring Units
91
Creating a Unit through 3DM2
95
Creating a Unit through 3BM
97
Ordering Units in 3BM
101
Partitioning, Formatting, and Mounting Units
102
Creating a Hot Spare
109
Specifying a Hot Spare through 3DM2
110
Specifying a Hot Spare through 3BM
110
Naming a Unit
111
Setting Unit Policies
112
Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache
114
Working with Read Cache Settings
116
Enabling or Disabling Auto-Verify for a Unit
119
Setting Overwrite ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding)
120
Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit
122
Setting the Storsave Profile for a Unit
123
Rapid RAID Recovery
125
Changing an Existing Configuration by Migrating
127
RAID Level Migration (RLM) Overview
128
Changing RAID Level
129
Expanding Unit Capacity
130
Informing the Operating System of Changed Configuration
131
Deleting a Unit
133
Deleting a Unit through 3DM2
133
Deleting a Unit through 3BM
136
Removing a Unit
137
Removing a Unit through 3DM2
137
Removing a Unit through 3BM
139
Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
139
Moving Units from an Earlier 9000 Series to a 9750 Controller
140
Adding a Drive
141
Removing a Drive
142
Rescanning the Controller
144
Configuring Units
91
Configuring a New Unit
91
Configuration Options When Creating a Unit
91
Chapter 8. Maintaining Units
145
Viewing a List of Drives
147
Enclosure Drive LED Status Indicators
148
Unit Statuses
149
Drive Statuses
150
About Degraded Units
150
About Inoperable Units
151
Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
151
Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
153
Viewing Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
153
Using the Alert Utility under Windows
154
Downloading an Error Log
156
Viewing SMART Data about a Drive
156
Background Tasks
157
About Initialization
158
About Verification
161
Using Auto Verification
164
Starting a Verify Manually
164
Rebuilding Units
166
Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive
171
Working with the Background Task Mode
171
Setting the Background Task Mode
174
Setting Background Task Rate
174
Background Task Prioritization
175
Scheduling Background Tasks
175
Viewing Current Task Schedules
177
Turning on or off Use of a Rebuild/Migrate Task Schedule
177
Selecting Advanced or Basic Verify Schedules
178
Removing a Task Slot from a Schedule
179
Adding a New Task Schedule Slot
179
Selecting Self-Tests to be Performed
180
Maintaining Units
145
Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM2
145
Chapter 9 Maintaining Your Controller
182
Determining the Current Version of Your 3Ware Driver
182
Updating the Firmware and Driver
183
Downloading the Driver and Firmware
184
Updating the Firmware through 3DM2
186
Updating the Firmware through DOS Using the 3Ware Bootable CD
186
Viewing Battery Information
188
Testing Battery Capacity
188
Chapter 10. Enclosure Management
191
Viewing a List of Enclosures
192
Checking Enclosure Component Status
193
Fan Status
195
Temp Sensor Status
195
Power Supply Status
195
Slot Summary
196
Locating a Specific Enclosure Component
196
Working with Enclosure Alarms
197
Controlling an Enclosure Alarm in 3DM2
198
Turning off an Enclosure Alarm in 3BM
199
Downloading an Enclosure Diagnostic Log
200
Chapter 11. 3DM2 Reference
201
Controller Summary Page
202
Controller Details Page
203
Unit Information Page
204
Unit Details Page
205
Drive Information Page
207
Drive Details Window
209
Controller Phy Summary Page
211
Controller Settings Page
212
Scheduling Page
217
Maintenance Page
220
Alarms Page
229
Battery Backup Page
230
Enclosure Summary Page
232
Enclosure Details Page
233
3DM2 Settings Page
236
Chapter 12. Troubleshooting
239
Web Resources
239
Before Contacting Customer Support
240
Basic Troubleshooting: Check this First
240
Command Logging
241
Drive Performance Monitoring
241
Types of DPM Statistics
241
Available DPM Commands
242
Problems and Solutions
243
Enclosure-Related Problems
243
Hardware Installation Problems
244
Software Installation Problems
244
Problems in 3DM2 and 3BM
246
Error and Notification Messages
247
Error and Notification Message Details
252
Appendices
305
Glossary
306
Driver and Software Installation
313
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Freebsd
313
Driver Installation for Freebsd
313
Updating Drivers under Freebsd
316
Installing Management Software (3DM2 and CLI)
320
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Linux
321
Driver Installation under Linux
322
Obtaining 3Ware Linux Drivers
323
Driver Installation under Red hat or Fedora Core Linux
324
Driver Installation under SUSE Linux
329
Compiling a 3Ware Driver for Linux
333
Updating the 3Ware Driver under Red hat or Fedora Core
333
Updating the 3Ware Driver under SUSE
335
Installing Management Software (3DM2 and CLI)
336
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Mac os X
337
Driver and Software Installation
337
Uninstalling 3Ware Software under Mac os X
342
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Opensolaris
343
Driver and Software Installation
343
Installing the Driver and Software from the Command Line
348
Uninstalling 3Ware Software under Opensolaris
349
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Vmware
350
Driver Installation under Vmware Esx/Esxi 4.X Server
350
Updating the Firmware under Vmware
353
Installing 3Ware RAID Controller Management Software for Vmware
354
Uninstalling 3Ware Software on Vmware
354
Installing 3Ware Drivers and Software under Windows
355
Driver Installation under Windows
355
Updating the 3Ware Driver under Windows
360
Installing Software from a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
362
Uninstalling 3Ware Software under Microsoft Windows
366
Compliance and Conformity Statements
367
FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement
367
Canadian Compliance Statement
368
European Community Conformity Statement
368
Warranty, Technical Support, and Service
369
Limited Warranty
369
Warranty Service and RMA Process
370
LSI Technical Support and Services
370
Sales and Ordering Information
371
Feedback on this Manual
371
Index
372
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