Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server Board S2600IP and Intel® Workstation Board W2600CR TPS Functional Architecture
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3.3.23 On-board SAS/SATA Support and Options
The Intel
®
C600 chipset provides storage support by two integrated controllers: AHCI and SCU.
By default the server board supports up to 10 SATA ports: two white 6Gb/sec SATA ports from
the AHCI controller labeled as “SATA_0” and “SATA_1” and two MINISAS 3Gb/s SATA/SAS
ports routed from the SCU controller labeled as “SCU0” (PORT0-3) and “SCU1” (PORT4-7).
The SCU Port can be configured with the two embedded software RAID options:
 Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2) based on LSI* MegaRAID SW
RAID technology supporting RAID levels 0, 1, and 10.
 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (RSTe) supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and
10.
3.3.23.1 Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2)
Features of the embedded software RAID option Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2
(ESRT2) include the following:
 Based on LSI* MegaRAID Software Stack
 Software RAID with system providing memory and CPU utilization
 Supported RAID Levels – 0,1,5,10
o 4 and 8 Port SATA RAID 5 support provided with appropriate Intel
®
RAID C600
Upgrade Key
o 4 and 8 Port SAS RAID 5 support provided with appropriate Intel
®
RAID C600
Upgrade Key
 Maximum drive support = 8
 Open Source Compliance = Binary Driver (includes Partial Source files) or Open Source
using MDRAID layer in Linux.
 OS Support = Windows 7*, Windows 2008*, Windows 2003*, RHEL*, SLES, other Linux*
variants using partial source builds.
 Utilities = Windows* GUI and CLI, Linux GUI and CLI, DOS CLI, and EFI CLI
3.3.23.2 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (RSTe)
Features of the embedded software RAID option Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise
(RSTe) include the following:
 Software RAID with system providing memory and CPU utilization
 Supported RAID Levels – 0,1,5,10
o 4 Port SATA RAID 5 available standard (no option key required)
o 8 Port SATA RAID 5 support provided with appropriate Intel
®
RAID C600 Upgrade
Key
o No SAS RAID 5 support
 Maximum drive support = 32 (in arrays with 8 port SAS), 16 (in arrays with 4 port SAS),
128 (JBOD)
 Open Source Compliance = Yes (uses MDRAID)
 OS Support = Windows 7*, Windows 2008*, Windows 2003*, RHEL* 6.2 and later,