Users Guide

Non-RAID SCSI Controllers..........................................................................................................................................50
Non-RAID SAS Controllers...........................................................................................................................................50
Firmware Or Driver Versions..............................................................................................................................................50
Firmware/Driver Properties......................................................................................................................................... 50
Controller Health.................................................................................................................................................................. 51
Controller Components................................................................................................................................................. 51
Controllers Properties And Tasks.......................................................................................................................................51
Controller Tasks...................................................................................................................................................................54
Rescanning The Controller...........................................................................................................................................55
Creating A Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................................................. 55
Enabling The Controller Alarm..................................................................................................................................... 56
Disabling The Controller Alarm.....................................................................................................................................56
Turning Off The Controller Alarm................................................................................................................................56
Testing The Controller Alarm....................................................................................................................................... 56
Setting The Rebuild Rate..............................................................................................................................................56
Resetting The Controller Configuration......................................................................................................................57
Exporting The Controller Log File................................................................................................................................58
Foreign Configuration Operations............................................................................................................................... 58
Importing Foreign Configurations................................................................................................................................60
Importing Or Recovering Foreign Configurations...................................................................................................... 61
Clearing Foreign Configuration.....................................................................................................................................61
Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................ 62
Setting Background Initialization Rate........................................................................................................................ 64
Setting The Check Consistency Rate.........................................................................................................................64
Setting The Reconstruct Rate.....................................................................................................................................65
Setting The Redundant Path Configuration.............................................................................................................. 66
Setting The Patrol Read Mode.................................................................................................................................... 67
Starting And Stopping Patrol Read.............................................................................................................................68
Changing The Controller Properties............................................................................................................................69
Managing The Physical Disk Power............................................................................................................................ 69
Managing The Preserved Cache................................................................................................................................. 72
Encryption Key............................................................................................................................................................... 72
Converting To Non-RAID Disks....................................................................................................................................74
Converting To RAID Capable Disks............................................................................................................................. 74
Changing The Controller Mode....................................................................................................................................75
Auto Configure RAID0 Operation................................................................................................................................ 75
Viewing Available Reports ................................................................................................................................................. 76
Available Reports........................................................................................................................................................... 76
Viewing Patrol Read Report......................................................................................................................................... 76
Viewing Check Consistency Report............................................................................................................................ 76
Viewing Slot Occupancy Report.................................................................................................................................. 77
Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report........................................................................................................77
8 Support For PERC 9 Hardware Controllers................................................................................... 79
Support For RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation On PERC 9 Hardware Controller...................................................79
RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation With Uneven Span........................................................................................... 79
Support For Advanced Format 4KB Sector Hard-Disk Drives...................................................................................... 80
Hot Spare Considerations — 4KBSector Hard-Disk Drives.................................................................................... 80
Reconfiguration Considerations — 4KB Sector Hard-Disk Drives.......................................................................... 81
T10 Standard Protection Information (PI) — Data Integrity Field................................................................................ 81
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