Intel RAID Premium Feature Key Installation Guide

4 Intel
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RAID Premium Feature Keys Installation Guide
Removing the Intel
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RAID Premium Feature Key
AXXRPFKSSD2, AXXRPFKDE2, or
AXXRPFKSNSH2
1. Follow steps in documentation of the Intel
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RAID Controller to remove the RAID controller
from server board.
2. Firmly hold the RAID controller on table, and pull the Intel
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RAID Premium Feature Key from
the connector.
Intel
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RAID Premium Feature Introduction
This section introduces Intel
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RAID Premium Features that can be enabled by the Intel
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RAID
Premium Feature Key. For details on how to use above features, please refer to Intel
®
RAID
Software User’s Guide which can be downloaded at
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/
.
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RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSSD2 enables a form of Flash Tiering called
SSD Cache and Fastpath features.
• SSD Cache uses Solid State Devices as secondary cache for Intel
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RAID Controllers and is
designed to improve read performance of Intel
®
RAID Controller.
• Fastpath feature can support full optimization of SSD Virtual Disk groups. With this
premium feature enabled, Solid State Drive configurations tuned for small, random block-
size IO activity (typical of transactional database applications) can sustain up to over
450,000 IO READS Per Second.
Note: The Fastpath feature is automatically enabled when the Intel
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RAID Premium Feature
Key AXXRPFKSSD2 is present.
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RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKDE2 enables Full Disk Encryption feature. This
feature enables the Intel
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RAID Controller to manage data security protection for Self
Encrypting Drives (SED).
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RAID Premium Feature Key AXXRPFKSNSH2 enables the Snapshot feature. This
feature automatically creates snapshots for stored data on a scheduled basis. Lost data could be
restored from a known good previous snapshot.
With the Feature Key installed, unless noted specifically, the added feature must be enabled and/or
configured using the RAID BIOS Console utility or RAID Web Console 2 utility. For detailed
information on enabling and configuring the feature key option, please refer to the Intel
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RAID
Software User’s Guide available under your selected controller at http://www.intel.com
.