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... Logic Corporation.
Document Description
Document DB15-000357-01, Version 1.1 (April 2007) This document describes LSI Logic Corporation's Integrated RAID (IR) software product and will remain the official reference ... BY LSI LOGIC.
LSI Logic products are not intended for use in life-support appliances, devices, or systems. Use of any LSI Logic product in such applications without written...
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... trademarks of LSI Logic Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft... Corporation. All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies. KL For a current list of our distributors, sales offices, and design resource centers, view our web page located at http://www.lsi.com
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...RAID (IR) software product with LSI SAS controllers.
Audience
This user's guide assumes that you have some familiarity with installing and configuring software programs and that you are familiar with computer storage devices... volumes with the BIOS-based configuration utility.
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... Striping (IS) volumes with the BIOS-based configuration utility.
&#...Version/Date DB15-000357-01 Version 1.1
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DB15-000357-00 Version 1.0 January 2006
Remarks
Documented the following updated Integrated RAID support: • Support for up to two volumes consisting of up to twelve
drives per controller, plus one or two hot spare drives. In all, a maximum of 14 drives per controller...
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... this Manual
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Chapter 2
Overview of Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced
2.1 Introduction
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2.2 IM and IME Features
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2.3 IM/IME Description
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2.4 Integrated RAID Firmware
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2.4.1 Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O
Operation
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2.4.2 Metadata Support
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2.4.3 Hot Swapping
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2.4.4 SMART Support
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2.4.5 Hot Spare Disk
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2.4.6 Media...
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3.5.4 Deleting an Array
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3.5.5 Locating a Disk Drive, or Multiple Disk Drives in a
Volume
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3.5.6 Selecting a Boot Disk
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Chapter 4
Overview of Integrated Striping
4.1 Introduction
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4.2 IS Features
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4.3 IS Description
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4.4 Integrated Striping Firmware
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4.4.1 Metadata Support
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4.4.2 SMART Support
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4.4.3 Disk Write Caching
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4.5 Fusion-MPT...
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A.1 Hardware and Software Requirements A.2 CFGGEN Interface Description A.3 CFGGEN Commands
A.3.1 Common Command Line Parameters A.3.2 CREATE Command A.3.3 DEFAULTS Command A.3.4 DISPLAY Command A.3.5 FORMAT Command A.3.6 HOTSPARE Command A.3.7 STATUS Command A.3.8 SETOFFLINE Command A.3.9 SETONLINE Command A.3.10 AUTO Command (EFI Version Only) A.3.11 DISABLEIR Command (EFI...
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...- Nonvolatile write journaling - Physical disks not visible to OS or to application software • Low host CPU and PCI bus utilization • Fusion-MPT architecture provides processing power - Shared memory architecture minimizes external memory
requests - Functionality is contained in device hardware and firmware
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Introduction to Integrated RAID
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...-tolerant solution to data storage needs, at a lower cost than a dedicated RAID controller.
The IM and IME features support one or two mirrored volumes per LSI SAS controller, to provide fault-tolerant protection for critical data. The two volumes can have up to twelve disk drives total, plus one or two hot spare disks.
If a disk in an Integrated...
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...; Presents a single virtual drive to the OS for each IM/IME volume. • Supports both SAS and SATA disks. The two types of disks cannot
be combined in the same volume. However, an LSI SAS controller can support one volume with SATA disks and a second volume with SAS disks.
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... controller that supports the standard Fusion-MPT interface. The runtime mirroring of the boot disk is transparent to the BIOS, drivers, and operating system. Host-based status software monitors the state of the mirrored disks and reports any error conditions. Figure 2.1 shows an IM implementation with a second disk as a mirror of the first (primary) disk.
IM/IME Description
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...to a physical device failure, or after a hot swap has occurred to a physical disk in the volume.
2.4.2 Metadata Support
The firmware supports metadata, which describes the IM/IME logical drive configuration stored on each member disk. When the firmware is initialized, each member disk is queried to read the stored metadata in
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... the parameters that are used to define behavior between the SAS controller and the devices connected to it. The Fusion-MPT drivers for all supported operating systems implement the Fusion-MPT interface to communicate with the controller and firmware.
Fusion-MPT Support
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..., shown in Figure 3.1.
Figure 3.1 Adapter Properties Screen
LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility vx.xx.xx.xx Adapter Properties -- SAS1068
Adapter PCI Slot PCI Address(Bus/Dev/Func) MPT Firmware Revision SAS Address Status Boot Order Boot Support
SAS1068 03 03:00:00 00.03.23.00-IT 500605B0:0000C580 Enabled 1 [Enabled BIOS & OS]
RAID Properties
SAS Topology
Advanced Adapter Properties
Esc = Exit Menu...
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... host CPU. The firmware splits host I/Os over multiple disks and presents the disks as a single logical drive. In general, striping is transparent to the BIOS, the drivers, and the operating system.
The SAS BIOS CU is used to configure IS volumes, which can consist of two to ten disks.
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... that are used to define behavior between the SAS controller and the devices connected to it. The Fusion-MPT drivers for all supported operating systems implement the Fusion-MPT interface to communicate with the controller and firmware.
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In this case, the SAS BIOS CU will load after the system has completed its power-on self test.
Follow the steps below to configure an Integrated Striping (IS) volume with the SAS BIOS CU. The procedure assumes that the required controller(s) and disks are already installed in the computer system. You can configure...
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... Screen
LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility vx.xx.xx.xx Adapter Properties -- SAS1068
Adapter PCI Slot PCI Address(Bus/Dev/Func) MPT Firmware Revision SAS Address Status Boot Order Boot Support
SAS1068 03 03:00:00 00.03.23.00-IT 500605B0:0000C580 Enabled 1 [Enabled BIOS & OS]
RAID Properties SAS Topology Advanced Adapter Properties
Esc = Exit Menu
F1/Shift+1 = Help
Enter = Select Item...
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... (IS) volumes on LSI SAS controllers. CFGGEN is a command line utility that runs in the DOS, Linux, EFI, and Windows Pre-Installation (WinPE) environments. CFGGEN is a...BIOS-based configuration utility to create IM, IME, and IS volumes. (See Chapter 3, "Creating IM and IME Volumes" and Chapter 5, "Creating Integrated Striping Volumes.")
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... storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards. CFGGEN supports the LSISAS1064/1064E, LSISAS1068/1068E, and LSISAS1078 LSI SAS controller chips. CFGGEN runs in the following operating environments:
DOS -
CFGGEN runs in any environment that is fully DOS compatible and has at least 640-KB of memory. The system BIOS must support 32-bit BIOS services, including the PCI BIOS services...