User Guide

Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide v
Table of Contents
Preface ........................................................................................................................iii
Audience ............................................................................................................................... iii
Organization ......................................................................................................................... iii
Related Publication ............................................................................................................... iii
Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution .......................................................... 1
Overview ................................................................................................................................1
Benefits and Features ............................................................................................................ 2
Host Interface ................................................................................................................2
Metadata Support ..........................................................................................................3
SMART Support ............................................................................................................3
Fusion-MPT Support .....................................................................................................3
CacheCade on Host ......................................................................................................3
Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes ..................................................... 5
Overview ................................................................................................................................5
Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features ........................................6
Operation of Mirrored Volumes ..............................................................................................7
Mirrored Volume Features .....................................................................................................9
Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation ................................................9
Hot Swapping ................................................................................................................9
Hot Spare Disk ..............................................................................................................9
Online Capacity Expansion ...........................................................................................9
Media Verification ........................................................................................................10
Disk Write Caching ......................................................................................................10
NVSRAM Usage ..........................................................................................................10
Background Initialization ..............................................................................................10
Consistency Check ......................................................................................................10
Make Data Consistent .................................................................................................11
Creating Mirrored Volumes ..................................................................................... 13
Mirrored Volume Configuration Overview ............................................................................13
Creating Mirrored Volumes ..................................................................................................13
Creating an Integrated Mirroring Volume ....................................................................14
Creating an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring + Striping Volume ..
16
Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE .................................................17
Managing Hot Spare Disks ..................................................................................................18
Creating Hot Spare Disks ............................................................................................18
Deleting a Hot Spare Disk ...........................................................................................20
Other Configuration Tasks ...................................................................................................20