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MegaRAID Advanced Software Options Hardware Key Quick Installation Guide
July 2011
MegaRAID Advanced Software Options
MegaRAID Advanced Software Options Hardware Key Quick
Installation Guide
This guide describes the LSI® MegaRAID® Advanced Software Options and shows how to install the MegaRAID
Advanced Software Options Hardware Key on your 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller.
Thank you for purchasing the MegaRAID Advanced Software Options Hardware Key. Before you install the key on your
RAID controller, take a few minutes to read this quick installation guide. If you need more information about any topic
covered in this guide, refer to the related documents on your MegaRAID Universal Software Suite CD.
The MegaRAID Advanced Software Options Hardware Key enables support for the MegaRAID Advanced Software
Options, which are available with the following RAID controllers:
 MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i
 MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i
 MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e
MegaRAID Advanced Software Options
The MegaRAID Advanced Software Options include the following options, which are described in this section:
 MegaRAID Recovery Software
 MegaRAID CacheCade™ Software
 MegaRAID Fast Path™ Software
 LSI SafeStore™ Software Encryption Services
For more information about these options, refer to the MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide.
MegaRAID Recovery Software
The Recovery Software feature, also known as Snapshot, offers a simplified way to recover data and provides
automatic protection for the boot volume. You can use the Recovery Software feature to take a snapshot of a volume
and to restore a volume or file. Snapshot functionality allows you to capture data changes to the volume, and, if data is
deleted accidentally or maliciously, you can restore the data from the view or roll back to a snapshot at a previous
point-in-time (PiT).
Click this link to access more information about the Recovery Software feature:
http://www.lsi.com/products/storagesw/Pages/MegaRAIDRecoverySoftware.aspx.
NOTE Record your controller serial number in a safe location in case you need to contact LSI.
NOTE Back up your data before changing your system configuration; otherwise, you might lose data.