Hardware User's Guide

Intel® RAID Controller RS25FB044 Hardware User’s Guide 3
• Serial Management Protocol (SMP) to share topology management information
with expanders.
• Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATA III through expander interfaces.
Operating System Support
• Windows 2003*, Windows Vista*, Windows Server 2008*, Windows Server 2008*
R2, and Windows 7*
• SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 10
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 and 5.0
• VMWare* ESXi Server 4.x and 5.x
The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the
Tested operating system list for your server board at
http://www.intel.com/support/go/motherboards/server/index.htm.
To make sure the RAID module supports your operating system, see also the Tested
Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel
®
RAID Controller RS25FB044.
Usability
• Small, thin cabling with up to 6.0 Gb/s serial, point-to-point data transfer rates.
• Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives.
• Support for RAID levels 0, 1, and 1E.
• Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
• Fixed RAID strip size of 64 KB.
• Advanced array configuration and management utilities that provide drive roaming.
• Upgradable Flash ROM interface.
• Allows for staggered spin-up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption.
Redundancy and Error Handling
• Activity and fault indicators per drive, port selector (dual-port drives).
• Auto-detection of failed drives with transparent rebuild.
• Commands are retried up to four times.
• SMART technology predicts failures of drives and electronic components for drives
in IR mode.
• Firmware provides best effort to recognize an error and recover from it if possible.
• Failures are logged from controller and drive firmware.
• Failures are logged in Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2, CIM, and LEDs.