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SAS-3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
November 2012 Appendix A: Using the SAS-3 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility
Hardware and Software Requirements
Appendix A: Using the SAS-3 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility
This appendix explains how to use the command-line-driven SAS-3 Integrated RAID configuration utility (SAS3IRCU)
to create and manage Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS-3 controllers.
You run SAS3IRCU commands from a command-line prompt or a shell script. When you use a SAS3IRCU command,
the program returns a status value to the operating system when it exits.
You can use SAS3IRCU to quickly and efficiently configure Integrated RAID devices on LSI SAS-3 controllers.
A.1 Hardware and Software Requirements
SAS3IRCU 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)
 FreeBSD®: x86 (or i386), AMD64 (or compatible)
SAS3IRCU operates with storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards.
A.1.1 Controller Support
SAS3IRCU supports the following LSI SAS-3 controllers and the host bus adapters based on these controllers:
 LSISAS3008
 LSISAS3004
A.1.2 Operating System and Software Support
SAS3IRCU requires PCI 2.x or PCI 3.0 firmware and MPI v2.5. SAS3IRCU supports the following operating systems.
 Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008-R2,
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012
 UEFI 2.1 and 2.3
 Linux 2.6 Kernel - Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and higher, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and
higher
 MS-DOS® 6.22 and FreeDOS 1.0
SAS3IRCU runs on DOS only if the system BIOS supports 32-bit BIOS services, including the PCI BIOS services.
SAS3IRCU uses these services to directly access the controller and its interface registers.
 FreeBSD 7.2 and higher in both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
 VMware® ESXi 5.0 and higher
NOTE In this appendix, the term disk means 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.