Avago Technologies MegaRAID Fast Path Software User Manual
Megaraid® sas software
This manual is related to the following products:
- MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e MegaRAID SafeStore Software MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i MegaRAID SAS 9266-8i MegaRAID SAS 9270-8i MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i MegaRAID SAS 9271-8iCC MegaRAID SAS 9286-8e MegaRAID SAS 9286CV-8e MegaRAID SAS 9286CV-8eCC MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software MegaRAID SAS 9341-4i MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e MegaRAID SAS 9380-4i4e
Table of contents
Document Outline
- MegaRAID® SAS Software User Guide
- Overview
- Introduction to RAID
- 2.1 RAID Description
- 2.2 RAID Benefits
- 2.3 RAID Functions
- 2.4 Components and Features
- 2.4.1 Drive Group
- 2.4.2 Virtual Drive
- 2.4.3 Fault Tolerance
- 2.4.4 Consistency Check
- 2.4.5 Copyback
- 2.4.6 Background Initialization
- 2.4.7 Patrol Read
- 2.4.8 Disk Striping
- 2.4.9 Disk Mirroring
- 2.4.10 Parity
- 2.4.11 Disk Spanning
- 2.4.12 Hot Spares
- 2.4.13 Disk Rebuilds
- 2.4.14 Rebuild Rate
- 2.4.15 Hot Swap
- 2.4.16 Drive States
- 2.4.17 Virtual Drive States
- 2.4.18 Beep Codes
- 2.4.19 Enclosure Management
- 2.5 RAID Levels
- 2.6 RAID Configuration Strategies
- 2.7 RAID Availability
- 2.8 Configuration Planning
- 2.9 Number of Drives
- SafeStore Disk Encryption
- WebBIOS Configuration Utility
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 Starting the WebBIOS configuration utility
- 4.3 WebBIOS configuration utility Main Dialog Options
- 4.4 Managing Software Licensing
- 4.4.1 Managing MegaRAID Advanced Software Options
- 4.4.2 Reusing the Activation Key
- 4.4.3 Managing Advanced Software Summary
- 4.4.4 Activating an Unlimited Key Over a Trial Key
- 4.4.5 Activating a Trial Software
- 4.4.6 Activating an Unlimited Key
- 4.4.7 Securing MegaRAID Advanced Software
- 4.4.8 Confirm Re-hosting Process
- 4.4.9 Re-hosting Process Complete
- 4.5 Creating a Storage Configuration
- 4.6 CacheCade Configuration
- 4.7 Selecting SafeStore Encryption Services Security Options
- 4.7.1 Enabling the Security Key Identifier, Security Key, and Password
- 4.7.2 Enabling Drive Security using EKM
- 4.7.3 Changing the Security Key Identifier, Security Key, and Pass Phrase
- 4.7.4 Change Security from EKM to LKM
- 4.7.5 Changing Security from LKM to EKM
- 4.7.6 Disabling the Drive Security Settings
- 4.8 Viewing and Changing Device Properties
- 4.8.1 Viewing Controller Properties
- 4.8.2 Viewing Virtual Drive Properties, Policies, and Operations
- 4.8.3 Viewing Drive Properties
- 4.8.4 Shield State
- 4.8.5 Viewing and Changing Battery Backup Unit Information
- 4.8.6 Managing Link Speed
- 4.8.7 Viewing Enclosure Properties
- 4.8.8 SSD Disk Cache Policy
- 4.8.9 Emergency Hotspare
- 4.8.10 Emergency Hotspare for Controllers
- 4.9 Viewing and Expanding a Virtual Drive
- 4.10 Suspending and Resuming Virtual Drive Operations
- 4.11 Using MegaRAID Recovery
- 4.11.1 Recovery Scenarios
- 4.11.2 Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software
- 4.11.3 Creating Snapshots and Views
- 4.11.4 Creating Concurrent Snapshots
- 4.11.5 Selecting the Snapshot Settings
- 4.11.6 Viewing Snapshot Properties
- 4.11.7 Restoring a Virtual Drive by Rolling Back to a Snapshot
- 4.11.8 Cleaning Up a Snapshot Repository
- 4.12 Non-SED Secure Erase
- 4.13 Viewing System Event Information
- 4.14 Managing Configurations
- 4.14.1 Running a Consistency Check
- 4.14.2 Deleting a Virtual Drive
- 4.14.3 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration
- 4.14.4 Importing Foreign Configurations
- 4.14.5 Import Foreign Drives in EKM/EKM Secured Locked Drives
- 4.14.6 Importing Foreign Drives for LKM-Secured Locked Drives
- 4.14.7 Importing Foreign Drives in LKM Mode EKM-Secured Locked Drives
- 4.14.8 Migrating the RAID Level of a Virtual Drive
- 4.14.9 New Drives Attached to a MegaRAID Controller
- 4.15 WebBIOS Dimmer Switch
- MegaRAID Command Tool
- 5.1 Product Overview
- 5.2 Novell NetWare, SCO, Solaris, FreeBSD, and MS-DOS Operating System Support
- 5.3 Command Line Abbreviations and Conventions
- 5.4 Pre-boot MegaCLI
- 5.5 CacheCade Related Options
- 5.5.1 Create a Solid State Drive Cache Drive to Use as Secondary Cache
- 5.5.2 Delete a Solid State Drive Cache Drive
- 5.5.3 Associate/Disassociate Virtual Drives
- 5.5.4 Display CacheCade Pro 2.0 Configurations on a Controller
- 5.5.5 Create a RAID Drive Group for CacheCade Pro 2.0 from All Unconfigured Good Drives
- 5.5.6 Remove Blocked Access on a Virtual Drive
- 5.5.7 Create RAID 0 Configuration with SSD Caching
- 5.5.8 Create a RAID Level 10, 50, 60 (spanned) Configuration with SSD Caching
- 5.5.9 Delete Virtual Drives with SSD Caching
- 5.5.10 Clear Configurations on CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drives
- 5.5.11 Create a CacheCade Pro 2.0 Virtual Drive with RAID level and Write Policy
- 5.6 Software License Key
- 5.7 SafeStore Security Options
- 5.8 Controller Property-Related Options
- 5.8.1 Display Controller Properties
- 5.8.2 Display Number of Controllers Supported
- 5.8.3 Enable or Disable Automatic Rebuild
- 5.8.4 Flush Controller Cache
- 5.8.5 Set Controller Properties
- 5.8.6 Display Specified Controller Properties
- 5.8.7 Set Factory Defaults
- 5.8.8 Set SAS Address
- 5.8.9 Set Time and Date on Controller
- 5.8.10 Display Time and Date on Controller
- 5.8.11 Get Connector Mode
- 5.8.12 Set Connector Mode
- 5.9 Patrol Read-Related Controller Properties
- 5.10 BIOS-Related Properties
- 5.11 Battery Backup Unit-Related Properties
- 5.12 Options for Displaying Logs Kept at the Firmware Level
- 5.13 Configuration-Related Options
- 5.13.1 Create a RAID Drive Group from All Unconfigured-Good Drives
- 5.13.2 Add RAID 0, 1, 5, or 6 Configuration
- 5.13.3 Add RAID 10, 50, or 60 Configuration
- 5.13.4 Clear the Existing Configuration
- 5.13.5 Save the Configuration on the Controller
- 5.13.6 Restore the Configuration Data from File
- 5.13.7 Manage Foreign Configuration Information
- 5.13.8 Delete Specified Virtual Drives
- 5.13.9 Display the Free Space
- 5.14 Virtual Drive-Related Options
- 5.14.1 Display Virtual Drive Information
- 5.14.2 Change the Virtual Drive Cache and Access Parameters
- 5.14.3 Display the Virtual Drive Cache and Access Parameters
- 5.14.4 Manage Virtual Drives Initialization
- 5.14.5 Manage a Consistency Check
- 5.14.6 Schedule a Consistency Check
- 5.14.7 Manage a Background Initialization
- 5.14.8 Perform a Virtual Drive Reconstruction
- 5.14.9 Display Information about Virtual Drives and Drives
- 5.14.10 Display the Bad Block Table
- 5.14.11 Display the Number of Virtual Drives
- 5.14.12 Clear the LDBBM Table Entries
- 5.14.13 Display the List of Virtual Drives with Preserved Cache
- 5.14.14 Discard the Preserved Cache of a Virtual Drives
- 5.14.15 Expand a Virtual Drive
- 5.15 Drive-Related Options
- 5.15.1 Display Drive Information
- 5.15.2 Set the Drive State to Online
- 5.15.3 Set the Drive State to Offline
- 5.15.4 Change the Drive State to Unconfigured-Good
- 5.15.5 Change the Drive State
- 5.15.6 Manage a Drive Initialization
- 5.15.7 Rebuild a Drive
- 5.15.8 Locate the Drives and Activate LED
- 5.15.9 Mark the Configured Drive as Missing
- 5.15.10 Display the Drives in Missing Status
- 5.15.11 Replace the Configured Drives and Start an Automatic Rebuild
- 5.15.12 Prepare the Unconfigured Drive for Removal
- 5.15.13 Display Total Number of Drives
- 5.15.14 Display List of Physical Devices
- 5.15.15 Download Firmware to the Physical Devices
- 5.15.16 Configure All Free Drives into a RAID 0, 1, 5, or 6 Configuration for a Specific Controller
- 5.15.17 Set the Mapping Mode of the Drives to the Selected Controllers
- 5.15.18 Secure Erase for Virtual Drives and Physical Drives
- 5.15.19 Perform the Copyback Operation on the Selected Drive
- 5.16 Enclosure-Related Options
- 5.17 Flashing the Firmware
- 5.18 SAS Topology
- 5.19 Diagnostic-Related Options
- 5.20 Recovery (Snapshot)-Related Options
- 5.20.1 Enable the Snapshot Feature
- 5.20.2 Disable the Snapshot Feature
- 5.20.3 Take a Snapshot of a Volume
- 5.20.4 Set the Snapshot Properties
- 5.20.5 Delete a Snapshot
- 5.20.6 Create a View
- 5.20.7 Delete a View
- 5.20.8 Roll back to an Older Snapshot
- 5.20.9 Display Snapshot and View Information
- 5.20.10 Clean the Recoverable Free Space on the Drives in a Virtual Drive
- 5.20.11 Display the Information for a Specific View
- 5.20.12 Enable the Snapshot Scheduler
- 5.21 FastPath-Related Options
- 5.22 Dimmer Switch-Related Options
- 5.22.1 Display Selected Adapter Properties
- 5.22.2 Sets the Properties on the Selected Adapter
- 5.22.3 Displays the Power-Saving Level on the Virtual Disk
- 5.22.4 Displays about Adding a RAID Level to a Specified Adapter
- 5.22.5 Create a RAID Level
- 5.22.6 Add the Unconfigured Drive to a Specified Adapter
- 5.22.7 Displays the Cache and Access Policies
- 5.23 Performance Monitoring Options
- 5.24 Miscellaneous Commands
- MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 Hardware and Software Requirements
- 6.3 Prerequisites to Running MegaRAID Storage Manager Remote Administration
- 6.4 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager
- 6.4.1 Prerequisite for MegaRAID Storage Manager Installation
- 6.4.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows
- 6.4.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager for the Solaris SPARC Operating System
- 6.4.4 Uninstalling MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Solaris SPARC Operating System
- 6.4.5 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager for Linux Operating System
- 6.4.6 Prerequisites for Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on the RHEL6.0 x64 Operating System
- 6.4.7 Linux Error Messages
- 6.4.8 Kernel Upgrade
- 6.4.9 Uninstalling MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Linux
- 6.4.10 MegaRAID Storage Manager Customization
- 6.5 MegaRAID Storage Manager Support and Installation on VMware
- 6.6 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
- 6.7 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent
- 6.7.1 Prerequisite for LSI SNMP Agent RPM Installation
- 6.7.2 Prerequisite for Installing SNMP Agent on Linux Server
- 6.7.3 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on a Linux Operating System
- 6.7.4 Installing and Configuring an SNMP Agent on the Solaris Operating System
- 6.7.5 Installing an SNMP Agent on the Windows Operating System
- 6.8 MegaRAID Storage Manager Support and Installation on the Solaris 10 Operating System
- 6.9 Installing MegaCLI for VMware 5.0
- 6.10 MegaRAID Storage Manager Remotely Connecting to VMware ESX
- 6.11 Prerequisites to Running MegaRAID Storage Manager Remote Administration
- MegaRAID Storage Manager Window and Menus
- 7.1 Starting the MegaRAID Storage Manager Software
- 7.2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu
- 7.2.1 Dashboard, Physical View, Logical View
- 7.2.2 Shield State
- 7.2.3 Shield State Physical View
- 7.2.4 Logical View Shield State
- 7.2.5 Viewing the Physical Drive Properties
- 7.2.6 Viewing Server Profile of a Drive in Shield State
- 7.2.7 Displaying the Virtual Drive Properties
- 7.2.8 Emergency HotSpare Support
- 7.2.9 SSD Disk Cache Policy
- 7.2.10 Non-SED Secure Erase Support
- 7.2.11 Rebuild Write Cache
- 7.2.12 Background Suspend or Resume Support
- 7.2.13 Enclosure Properties
- 7.3 Monitoring Battery Backup Units
- Configuration
- Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices
- 9.1 Alert Delivery Methods
- 9.2 Configuring Alert Notifications
- 9.3 Editing Alert Delivery Methods
- 9.4 Changing Alert Delivery Methods for Individual Events
- 9.5 Changing the Severity Level for Individual Events
- 9.6 Rollback to Default Individual Event Configuration
- 9.7 Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server
- 9.8 Authenticating the SMTP Server
- 9.9 Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
- 9.10 Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
- 9.11 Removing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications
- 9.12 Saving Backup Configurations
- 9.13 Loading Backup Configurations
- 9.14 Monitoring Server Events
- 9.15 Monitoring Controllers
- 9.16 Monitoring Drives
- 9.17 Running a Patrol Read
- 9.18 Monitoring Virtual Drives
- 9.19 Monitoring Enclosures
- 9.20 Battery Learn Cycle
- 9.21 Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes
- Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations
- Using MegaRAID Advanced Software
- 11.1 MegaRAID Advanced Software
- 11.2 Recovery Advanced Software
- 11.2.1 MegaRAID Software Licensing
- 11.2.2 Managing MegaRAID Advanced Software
- 11.2.3 Activation Key
- 11.2.4 Advanced MegaRAID Software Status Summary
- 11.2.5 Application Scenarios and Messages
- 11.2.6 Activating an Unlimited Key Over a Trial Key
- 11.2.7 Configuring Key Vault (Re-hosting process)
- 11.2.8 Re-hosting Complete
- 11.2.9 Deactivate Trial Software
- 11.2.10 MegaRAID Recovery
- 11.2.11 Recovery Scenarios
- 11.2.12 Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software
- 11.2.13 Snapshot Repository
- 11.2.14 Selecting the Virtual Drive
- 11.2.15 Scheduling Snapshots
- 11.2.16 Editing Snapshots
- 11.2.17 Snapshot Base Details
- 11.2.18 Manage Snapshots
- 11.2.19 Editing Schedule
- 11.2.20 Advanced Settings
- 11.2.21 Create View Using Manage Snapshots Wizard
- 11.2.22 Viewing Snapshot Details
- 11.2.23 No View Details for Snapshot
- 11.2.24 No Snapshot Schedule
- 11.2.25 Graphical Representation of Repository Virtual Drive
- 11.2.26 Deleting a Snapshot
- 11.3 Disabling MegaRAID Recovery
- 11.4 CacheCade Advanced Software
- 11.5 FastPath Advanced Software
- 11.6 LSI SafeStore Encryption Services
- 11.6.1 Enabling Drive Security using EKM
- 11.6.2 Supporting EKM Mode
- 11.6.3 Change Security Settings- LKM
- 11.6.4 Change Security Settings - EKM
- 11.6.5 Importing Foreign Drives
- 11.6.6 Importing Foreign Drives to LKM
- 11.6.7 Importing Foreign Drives to EKM
- 11.6.8 Importing Foreign Drives to EKM
- 11.6.9 Enabling Drive Security using LKM
- 11.6.10 Changing the Drive Security Settings
- 11.6.11 Disabling Drive Security
- 11.6.12 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration
- 11.7 Managing Link Speed
- Events and Messages
- MegaCLI Error Messages
- Glossary
- History of Technical Changes