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- ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 1
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Version 2.0 August 2010 - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 2
August 2009 Version 1.0, July 2009 Added new models of supported controllers. Applied extensive general editing improvements. Initial release of ; nor does the purchase, lease, or use of a product or service from LSI Corporation convey a license under any patent rights, copyrights, trademark - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 3
RAID Solution User Guide Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution 5 1.1 Overview ...5 1.2 Benefits and Features ...6 1.2.1 Host Interface ...6 1.2.2 Metadata Support 6 1.2.3 SMART Support ...6 1.2.4 Fusion-MPT Support 6 Chapter 2: Overview of - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 4
Table of Contents SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes 25 5.1 Integrated Striping Hardware and Software Requirements 31 A.1.1 Controller Support 31 A.1.2 Operating System and Software Support 32 A.2 Interface Description ...32 A.3 Commands - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 5
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 1: Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution | Overview , which provides features of RAID 0 By simplifying the configuration options and by providing firmware support in its SAS3 host adapters, LSI can offer the Integrated RAID solution at a lower - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 6
Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution | Benefits and Features SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 1.2 Benefits and Features 1.2.1 Host Interface 1.2.2 Metadata Support 1.2.3 SMART Support 1.2.4 Fusion-MPT Support The LSI Integrated RAID solution has the following benefits and features - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 7
of the LSI Integrated RAID features that support the creation of mirrored arrays. 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features As a result of the shift towards network-attached storage (NAS), Internet service providers need a cost-effective, fault-tolerant - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 8
Mirrored Volumes | Operation of Mirrored Volumes SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 2.3 Operation of Mirrored Volumes Ability of mirrored volumes to run the drivers update an OS-specific event log. Support for SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) status LED. Write journaling, which allows - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 9
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 2: Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes | Operation of Mirrored Volumes Integrated Mirroring Volume Primary Mirror SAS LSI Fusion-MPT SAS3 Controller Memory Bus NVSRAM ( - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 10
Chapter 2: Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes | Operation of Mirrored Volumes SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Logical View Mirrored Stripe 1 Mirrored Stripe 2 Mirrored Stripe 3 Mirrored Stripe 4 Physical View Mirrored Stripe 1 Mirrored Stripe 1' Mirrored Stripe 2 Mirrored - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 11
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 2: Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes | Mirrored Volume increase the size of the partition on the volume. The Integrated RAID firmware supports a background media verification feature that runs at regular intervals when the mirrored - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 12
Chapter 2: Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes | Mirrored Volume Features SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 2.4.6 Disk Write Caching 2.4.7 NVSRAM Usage 2.4.8 Background Initialization 2.4.9 Consistency Check 2.4.10 Make Data Consistent By default, the Integrated RAID firmware - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 13
RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 3: Creating loads after the system completes its power-on self-test. You can configure one or two Integrated Mirroring, a volume must be either SATA (with extended command set support) or SAS (with SMART support). You cannot combine SAS and SATA disks in the same - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 14
Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Creating Mirrored Volumes SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3.2.1 Creating an Integrated Mirroring Volume Disks must have 512-byte blocks and must not have removable media. Integrated mirroring volumes must have two disks, Integrated - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 15
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Creating Mirrored Volumes 4. Move the cursor an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring + Striping Volume NOTE: See the instructions in Section 3.3, Managing Hot Spare Disks, if you want to create one - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 16
Creating Mirrored Volumes SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3.2.3 Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE If necessary, you can identify the disks in the volume by following the instructions in Section 3.4.5, Locating Disk Drives in a Volume. 2. Wait until synchronization - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 17
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Managing Hot Spare Disks 3.3 Managing Hot Spare Disks 3.3.1 Creating Hot Spare Disks 4. Again, wait until synchronization completes on the new disk - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 18
| Managing Hot Spare Disks SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3.3.2 Deleting Hot Spare Disks Page 18 Figure 6: Manage nonremovable media. The disk type must be either SATA with extended command set support or SAS with SMART support. 7. Select the Hot Spr (Hot Spare) field for this disk, and - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 19
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks 3.4 Other Configuration Tasks 3.4.1 Viewing Volume Properties 3.4.2 Running a Consistency Check This section explains how to perform other configuration and - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 20
Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 3.4.3 Activating an Array 3.4.4 Deleting an Array A volume (array) can become inactive if, for example, you remove it from one controller or computer and install it - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 21
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks 3.4.5 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 3.4.6 Selecting a Boot Disk After a pause, the utility deletes the array. If there is - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 22
Chapter 3: Creating Mirrored Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Figure 7: Boot Device on SAS Topology Window If a device is currently designated as the alternate boot device, the Device Info column shows the word Alt. 3. - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 23
Guide Chapter 4: Overview of Integrated Striping | Introduction Chapter 4 Overview of Integrated Striping This chapter provides an overview of the LSI Integrated RAID features that support the Fusion-MPT BIOS SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) status LED support for drives used in Integrated Striping - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 24
Chapter 4: Overview of Integrated Striping | Integrated Striping Description SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 4.3 Integrated Striping Description On Integrated Striping volumes, the firmware writes data across multiple disks instead of onto one disk. It does this by partitioning each - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 25
Solution User Guide Chapter 5: Creating GB on each of the 120-MB disks for the volume. The supported stripe size is 64 kilobytes. Refer to Chapter 4 for more information BIOS CU loads after the system completes its power-on self-test. You can configure one or two Integrated RAID volumes on each - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 26
Striping Volumes SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Disks must have 512-byte blocks and must not have removable media. Integrated Striping volumes must have at least two disks and no more than 10 disks. Integrated Striping volumes do not support hot spare disks. Follow these steps to - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 27
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks 8. From Initialization of the new array continues in the background. NOTE: Repeat the previous instructions to create a second Integrated Striping volume, if desired, and if enough - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 28
Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5.3.3 Deleting an Array 5.3.4 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume 6. Press Y to activate the array. The array becomes active after a pause. CAUTION: Before you delete an array, - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 29
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 5.3.5 Selecting a Boot Disk Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks NOTE: The LEDs on the disk drives flash, as previously described, if the firmware - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 30
Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes | Other Configuration Tasks SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide 6. To select an alternate boot disk, move the cursor to the disk and press Alt + A. NOTE: To change the alternate boot device from one disk - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 31
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Appendix A: | Hardware and Software Requirements Appendix A (v9) SAS3IRCU works with storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards. SAS3IRCU supports the following LSI SAS3 controllers and the host bus adapters based on these controllers: - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 32
Guide A.1.2 Operating System and Software Support A.2 Interface Description A.3 Commands SAS3IRCU requires PCI™ 2.x or PCI 3.0 firmware and MPI v2.0. SAS3IRCU supports the system BIOS supports 32-bit BIOS services, including the PCI BIOS services. SAS3IRCU uses these services to locate the - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 33
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide A.3.1 Common Command-Line Parameters A.3.2 CREATE Command Appendix A: | Commands Table 1: SASIRCU Commands (Continued) number that the program assigns to each PCI function found on supported controller chips in the system, starting with controller # 0. For - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 34
of the IOC configuration pages in the Fusion MPT 2.0 MPI Specification Guide. SAS3IRCU does not allow you to create an Integrated RAID volume in a single Integrated RAID volume, if the Integrated RAID firmware supports it. Support for such a mixing is specified by values in static fields in - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 35
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Appendix A: | Commands Program Return Value A.3.3 DELETE Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value A.3.4 DISPLAY Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value 0x00 0x01 0x02 SUCCESS: - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 36
A: | Commands SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Sample Output Following is a sample of the information physical devices : 62 Concurrent commands supported : 266 Slot : 3 Segment : 0 Bus : 64 Device : 1 Function : 0 RAID Support : Yes IR Volume information Physical - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 37
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide A.3.5 HOTSPARE Command Appendix A: | Commands Logical SATA SSD. Physical device Protocol values are as follows: SAS - The drive supports SAS protocol. SATA - The drive supports SATA protocol. The HOTSPARE command adds a hot spare drive to spare pool 0 - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 38
Page 4. For more information, see the Fusion-MPT 2.0 MPI Specification Guide. The maximum allowable number of hot spare drives depends on the value these values from the output of the DISPLAY command. DOS does not support addressing by Enclosure:Bay. delete - This optional command deletes the - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 39
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Appendix A: | Commands Sample Output A.3.7 LIST Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value Sample Output Following is an example of the information that the STATUS command - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 40
RAID Solution User Guide A.3.8 MFGPAGE Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value A.3.9 CONSTCHK Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value A.3.10 ACTIVATE Command The MFGPAGE command updates information on manufacturing pages. Only DOS and EFI support this command. sas2ircu - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 41
SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide Appendix A: | Commands A.3.11 LOCATE Command Command Line Parameters Program Return Value The LOCATE command locates a specific drive in a volume by turning on its location indicator - ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac | LSI SAS3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide - Page 42
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Integrated RAID Solution
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Version 2.0
August 2010