User guide

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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 2008 specications summary .......................................................... vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents .........................................................................
1-2
1.3 Card layout ...................................................................................
1-3
1.4 System requirements ...................................................................
1-3
1.5 Card installation ...........................................................................
1-4
Chapter 2: RAID conguration
2.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1 RAID denitions ..............................................................
2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................
2-2
2.2 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility .............................................
2-3
2.2.1 RAID 1 volume ................................................................
2-4
2.2.2 RAID 1E/10 volume ........................................................
2-8
2.2.3 RAID 0 volume ..............................................................
2-10
2.2.4 Managing Arrays ...........................................................
2-12
2.2.5
Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-19
2.2.6 Global Properties ..........................................................
2-20
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager .....................................................
2-23
2.3.1 Hardware and Software Requirements .........................
2-23
2.3.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware
on Microsoft Windows OS .............................................
2-23
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for Linux ..
2-27
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages ...................................................
2-28
2.3.5 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ...........
2-29
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window ..........................
2-31
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
3-2
3.1.2 Windows
®
Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................
3-11