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Microsemi Adaptec ASR-8805 - User Manual

Microsemi Adaptec ASR-8805
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Installation and User's Guide
Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers
Released
January 2019

Table of Contents

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Summary

Installing the Controller and Disk Drives

Installing the Controller

Detailed steps for physically installing the RAID controller into a PCIe slot.

Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers

How to connect SAS/SATA drives and SSDs to the controller.

Creating a Bootable Array

Installing the Driver and an Operating System

Installing with Windows

Steps to install the driver during Windows OS installation.

Installing with VMware

Guide for integrating the driver into VMware ESXi custom installations.

Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System

Installing on Windows

Steps to install the driver via Device Manager in Windows.

Installing on Red Hat, CentOS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux

Procedure for installing driver on existing Linux distributions.

Managing Your Storage Space

Solving Problems

Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure

Procedures for recovering data and rebuilding arrays after a disk drive failure.

Using the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility

Using the ARC Utility to Create and Manage Arrays

Detailed steps for creating, managing, and initializing arrays using the ARC utility.

Updating the Controller Firmware

Instructions for updating the RAID controller's firmware via the UEFI interface.

Using the Adaptec Flash Utility

Update

Procedure for updating the RAID controller's flash memory with new firmware.

Safety Information

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

Essential precautions to prevent damage from electrostatic discharge.

Microsemi Adaptec ASR-8805 Specifications

General IconGeneral
Controller ModelASR-8805
Controller TypeRAID Controller
Max Devices Supported256
Form FactorLow Profile
Operating Temperature0°C to 55°C
Operating Systems SupportedWindows, Linux, VMware
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
RAID Levels0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Ports8 internal
Data Transfer Rate12 Gb/s per port

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