Hardware User's Guide

Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2MH080 Hardware User’s Guide 3
Operating System Support
• Windows Server 2008* R2, Windows 7*, Windows Server 2003*, Windows Vista*,
Windows XP*
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.0
• SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
• VMWare* ESX 4.0
• Solaris* 10
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
®
Integrated RAID Module
RMS2MH080.
Usability
• Small, thin cabling with serial point-to-point 6.0 Gbps 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 provide:
— Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive.
See
Appendix A: Drive Roaming and Drive Migration Install 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
• 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%).
Caution: Exceeding 50% rate may cause operating system errors due to waiting for
controller access.
• Background operating mode can be set for Rebuilds, Consistency Checks,
Initialization (auto restarting Consistency Check on redundant volumes), Migration,
OCE, and Patrol Read.