Installation guide

Software Operation Manual
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4.9.3 System Information...............................................................92
4.9.4 Hardware Monitor................................................................94
CHAPTER 5. MCBIOS RAID MANAGER AND TERMINAL
MODE CONFIGURATION ...................................................................97
5.1 C ONFIGURING R AID S ETS AND V OLUME S ETS ...............................97
5.2 D ESIGNATING D RIVES AS H OT S PARES ..........................................98
5.3 U SING Q UICK V OLUME /R AID S ETUP C ONFIGURATION .................98
5.4 U SING R AID S ET /V OLUME S ET F UNCTION M ETHOD ....................100
5.5 M AIN M ENU .................................................................................102
5.5.1 Quick Volume/Raid Setup...................................................103
5.5.2 Raid Set Function ...............................................................106
5.5.3 Volume Set Function...........................................................113
5.5.4 Physical Drive ....................................................................127
5.5.5 Raid System Function.........................................................130
5.5.6 HDD Power Management ..................................................138
5.5.7 Fiber Channel Config (only for FC)..................................139
5.5.8 In Band SAS Config (only for SAS)....................................141
5.5.9 Ethernet Configuration.......................................................141
5.5.10 View System Events ..........................................................144
5.5.11 Clear Events Buffer ..........................................................144
5.5.12 Hardware Monitor............................................................144
5.5.12 System Information...........................................................146
CHAPTER 6...........................................................................................147
REDUNDANT STORAGE SUBSYSTEM & MULTIPATHING I/O147
6.1 O VERVIEW ...................................................................................147
6.1.1 Redundant SAS RAID Subsystem........................................147
6.1.2 Multipath I/O & No Single Point of Failure.......................147
6.1.3 Configuration & Connectivity ............................................148
6.2 P HYSICAL C ONNECTIONS WITH MPIO .........................................149
6.2.1 Single Host Server..............................................................149
6.2.2 Multiple Host Servers.........................................................150
6.2.3 Cluster Servers ...................................................................151
6.3 E NABLE M ULTIPATHING I/O FOR W INDOWS S ERVER 2003..........152
6.3.1 Complete Volume Set configurations and hardware setup.152
6.3.2 Register Microsoft MPIO devices.......................................153
6.3.3 Install Microsoft MPIO packages and reboot the host
server computer...........................................................................154