Intel S2600CP Software User Guide for Windows* - Page 11

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Overview Note: The server system's BIOS SETUP utility is used to select either AHCI or RAID modes for the AHCI controller.  Intel® RSTe operating system SCU/RAID driver. This driver provides a simple non-RAID (passthrough) as well as a full RAID solution. This will manage/control the SAS/SATA devices attached to the SCU ports. Note: The SCU controller will only have a RAID mode. Consequently, when booting from the SCU controller, the SCU pre-boot driver (Legacy OROM or UEFI driver) will be required.  Intel® RSTe GUI (Graphical User Interface). This is an application that can be used to manage RAID arrays and volumes on drives attached (only) to the AHCI and SCU controllers.  Rstcli/rstcli64  CIM plugin for Windows* 1.4 Features Introduction Some of the RAID features supported by Intel® RSTe include RAID level 0 (striping), RAID level 1 (mirroring), RAID level 5 (striping with parity) and RAID level 10 (striping and mirroring). The new features introduced with Intel® RSTe include but are not limited to:  RAID support for SAS devices  SCU support for RSTe RAID 0/1/5/10  Pass-through drives  Hot Plug with I/O  Hot Spare Disk  Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert  Rebuild & Migration Check Pointing  NCQ (SATA) and CQ (SAS) support  UEFI using common metadata  SAS Expanders  SMART Support  Bad Block Management  SAS & SATA controller configuration rules  SAS & SATA drive roaming  RAID Volume roaming between Linux* and Windows*  On Line Capacity Expansion  Large Stripe Size Support  RAID-Ready  Disk Coercion  Manual & Auto Rebuild  Instant Initialization  Patrol Read  SGPIO for SAS & SATA  volume creation/verify  Selectable Boot Volume  Email Alerting  CIM  RAID Level Migration (RAID 0, 1, or 10 to RAID 5)  Dirty Stripe Journaling  Partial Parity Logging (PPL)  Verify and Repair  Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert  Install/Uninstall Utility  Configuration and Management Utilities 2 Intel® RSTe User's Guide

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Overview
2
Intel
®
RSTe User
s Guide
Note:
The server system’s BIOS SETUP utility is used to select either AHCI or RAID modes for the AHCI
controller.
Intel
®
RSTe operating system SCU/RAID driver. This driver provides a simple non-RAID (pass-
through) as well as a full RAID solution. This will manage/control the SAS/SATA devices attached to
the SCU ports.
Note:
The SCU controller will only have a RAID mode. Consequently, when booting from the SCU
controller, the SCU pre-boot driver (Legacy OROM or UEFI driver) will be required.
Intel
®
RSTe GUI (Graphical User Interface). This is an application that can be used to manage RAID
arrays and volumes on drives attached (only) to the AHCI and SCU controllers.
Rstcli/rstcli64
CIM plugin for Windows*
1.4
Features Introduction
Some of the RAID features supported by Intel
®
RSTe include RAID level 0 (striping), RAID level 1
(mirroring), RAID level 5 (striping with parity) and RAID level 10 (striping and mirroring).
The new features introduced with Intel
®
RSTe include but are not limited to:
RAID support for SAS devices
SCU support for RSTe RAID 0/1/5/10
Pass-through drives
Hot Plug with I/O
Hot Spare Disk
Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert
Rebuild & Migration Check Pointing
NCQ (SATA) and CQ (SAS) support
UEFI using common metadata
SAS Expanders
SMART Support
Bad Block Management
SAS & SATA controller configuration rules
SAS & SATA drive roaming
RAID Volume roaming between Linux* and Windows*
On Line Capacity Expansion
Large Stripe Size Support
RAID-Ready
Disk Coercion
Manual & Auto Rebuild
Instant Initialization
Patrol Read
SGPIO for SAS & SATA
volume creation/verify
Selectable Boot Volume
Email Alerting
CIM
RAID Level Migration (RAID 0, 1, or 10 to RAID 5)
Dirty Stripe Journaling
Partial Parity Logging (PPL)
Verify and Repair
Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert
Install/Uninstall Utility
Configuration and Management Utilities