Hardware User's Guide

Intel® RAID Controller RS2VB080/RS2VB040 Hardware User’s Guide 3
Operating System Support
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003*, Microsoft Windows Server 2008*, Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 R2*, Microsoft Windows 7*, and Windows Vista*.
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0.
• SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11.
• Solaris* 10
• VMWare ESX* 4.x
All operating systems supported by the RAID controller may not be supported by your
server board. To verify compatibility, see the Tested Operating System List for your server
board at http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/server/.
To make sure the RAID controller supports your operating system, refer to the Tested
Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel
®
RAID Controller
RS2VB080/RS2VB040.
Usability
• The card ships with both a standard and a low-profile bracket.
• The card ships with a 512MB memory board which is already installed onto the
RAID controller baseboard as the RAID cache, and ships with a SuperCap module
which acts as a battery backup unit with the capability to keep functional during the
life cycle of the RAID controller.
• 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 intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
• Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails
• User-defined stripe size per drive: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 KB
• Advanced Array configuration and Management Utilities provides:
— Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive.
See Appendix A for limitations on OCE and RAID migration.
— Online RAID level migration (upgrade of RAID mode may require OCE).
— Drive migration
— Drive roaming
— No reboot necessary after expansion
— Load Balancing
• Upgradeable Flash ROM interface
• Allows for staggered spin up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption
• User-specified rebuild rate (percent of system resources to use from 0-100%)