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SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility (SAS2IRCU) User Guide 
November 2012
Hardware and Software Requirements
SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility (SAS2IRCU) User Guide
This document explains how to use the command-line-driven SAS-2 Integrated RAID configuration utility (SAS2IRCU)
to create Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS-2 controllers.
You execute SAS2IRCU commands from a command-line prompt or a shell script. When you use a SAS2IRCU
command, the program returns a status value to the operating system when it exits.
You can use SAS2IRCU to quickly and efficiently configure Integrated RAID devices on LSI SAS-2 controllers.
1 Hardware and Software Requirements
SAS2IRCU runs on the following operating system architecture:
 Windows®: x86, x64 (AMD64)
 Linux®: x86, x86_64 (supported with x86 build), PPC64
 UEFI: EFI Byte Code (EBC)
 Solaris®: x86 (or compatible), SPARC®
 FreeBSD®: x86 (or i386), AMD64 (or compatible)
SAS2IRCU operates with storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards.
1.1 Controller Support
SAS2IRCU supports the following LSI SAS-2 controllers and the host bus adapters based on these controllers:
 LSISAS2004
 LSISAS2008
 LSISAS2108
 LSISAS2208
 LSISAS2304
 LSISAS2308
1.2 Operating System and Software Support
SAS2IRCU requires PCI 2.x or PCI 3.0 firmware and MPI v2.0. SAS2IRCU supports the following operating systems.
 Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista®, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8,
Windows Server 2012
 UEFI 2.1, UEFI 2.3
NOTE In this document, the term disk means hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD), and the HDDs
or SSDs can support either SAS or SATA protocol.
NOTE LSI® recommends that you use the latest version of the driver for any operating system.