User manual

Contents

1. Introduction ................................................................ 8

1.1 Overview .........................................................................8

1.2 Features ........................................................................ 10

1.3 RAID Concept ................................................................. 12

1.3.1 RAID Set ................................................................... 12

1.3.2 Volume Set ................................................................ 12

1.3.3 Easy of Use Features ................................................. 13

1.3.3.1 Instant Availability/Background Initialization ............ 13

1.3.3.2 Array Roaming ..................................................... 13

1.3.3.3 Online Capacity Expansion ..................................... 14

1.3.4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration .................. 15

1.4 High availability .............................................................. 15

1.4.1 Creating Hot Spares ................................................... 15

1.4.2 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support ....................................... 16

1.4.3 Hot-Swap Disk Rebuild ................................................ 16

1.5 Understanding RAID ........................................................ 16

1.5.1 RAID 0 ...................................................................... 17

1.5.2 RAID 1 ...................................................................... 17

1.5.3 RAID 10 .................................................................... 18

1.5.4 RAID 3 ...................................................................... 18

1.5.5 RAID 5 ...................................................................... 19

1.5.6 RAID 6 ...................................................................... 19

2. Hardware Installation ............................................... 22

2.1 Before Your begin Installation ........................................... 22

2.2 Board Layout .................................................................. 23

2.3 Installation ..................................................................... 27

3. McBIOS RAID Manager .............................................. 38

3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager ................................... 38

3.2 McBIOS Conﬁguration manager ......................................... 39

3.3 Conﬁguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets .............................. 40

3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares ...................................... 40

3.5 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conﬁguration .................... 41

3.6 Using Raid Set/Volume Set Function Method ....................... 42

3.7 Main Menu .................................................................... 44

3.7.1 Quick Volume/RAID Setup ........................................... 45

3.7.2 Raid Set Function ....................................................... 47

3.7.2.1 Create Raid Set .................................................... 48