HighPoint RocketRAID 230x Bedienungsanleitung

RocketRAID 230x

SATAII HostAdapter

User’s Guide

Revision:1.1

Date: January 2007

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction

1 - About this Guide .................................................................................................1-1

2 - Introducing the RocketRAID 2300, 2302 and 2304 HostAdapters......................1-1

3 - Product Features .................................................................................................1-1

4 - Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology ..............................................1-2

Chapter 2

RocketRAID 230x Hardware Description/Installation

1 - RocketRAID 230x HostAdapter layout ..............................................................2-1

2 - LED Connections ................................................................................................2-3

3 - Installing the RocketRAID HostAdapter ...........................................................2-6

4 - Verifying Installation ...........................................................................................2-8

Chapter 3

RocketRAID 230x BIOS Utility

RocketRAIDBIOSUtility

1- BIOSCommand Overview ...................................................................................3-1

2 - Creating RAIDArrays .........................................................................................3-2

3 -Adding/Remove Spare Disks ..............................................................................3-4

4 - Updating the BIOS ..............................................................................................3-5

5 - BIOS –Additional Settings .................................................................................3-8

Chapter 4

RocketRAID 230x Driver and Software Installation

Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, 2003 Server, x64

versions of XP/2003,Vista)

Table of Contents

Driver and Software CD ...........................................................................................4-1

Windows Driver Installation ....................................................................................4-4

1 - Installing the RAID Management Console/ Interface Overview.........................4-5

2 - Software Interface - Overview of commands/functions ......................................4-6

3 - Creating anArray ................................................................................................4-8

4 - Deleting anArray .............................................................................................. 4-10

5 - Configuring Spare Disks ................................................................................... 4-10

6 - Recovering/VerifyingArrays............................................................................. 4-10

7 - OCE/ORLM ..................................................................................................... 4-12

8 - Misc. Array/Device Options ............................................................................. 4-13

9 - Managing Events.............................................................................................. 4-15

10 - Configuring Remote Systems .......................................................................... 4-19

11 - Configuring Users and Privileges.................................................................... 4-23

Chapter 5

LinuxDriverSupport

1 - Fedora Core 6 Linux installation Overview..........................................................5-1

2 - Red Hat Enterprise 4 Overview ...........................................................................5-5

3 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) installation Overview.............................. 5-10

Chapter 6

FreeBSD Driver Support

1 - Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 230x Controller .....................................6-1

2 - Installing the RocketRAID 230x Driver on an Existing System ...........................6-4

3 - Updating the Driver ............................................................................................6-7

4 - Uninstalling the Driver ........................................................................................6-7

Appendix

CustomerSupport

Customer Support ................................................................................................... A -1

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction

Contents of this Chapter:

About this guide

Introducing the RocketRAID 230x HostAdapter

Product Features

Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology

Introduction

About this Guide

The RocketRAID 230x SATAII HostAdapter’s User’s Guide provides information

about the functions and capabilities of these host adapter products, and instructions

for installing, configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by these adapter

cards.

Introducing the RocketRAID 2300, 2302 and 2304 Host

Adapters

The HighPoint RocketRAID 2300, 2302 and 2304 host adapters are 4-channel PCI-Ex-

press x1 to SATA II RAID controllers. These RAID storage solutions are aimed at

enterprise storage applications, NAS storage, workgroup and web servers, video stream-

ing / video editing workstations, back up, and security systems.

ProductFeatures

4 Channel PCI-Express to SATAII host adapter

Upwardscompatiblewith PCI-Express4x, 8x, 16x

Supports up to 4 SATA/SATAII hard disk drives

Up to 300MB/s per SATAII channel

64-bit LBA support for drive capacity over 2TB

Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)

Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD

Supports RAID arrays created using RocketRAID 1640 SATAhost

adapter

Staggered drive spin-up support

S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of hard disk status for reliability

SAF-TEEnclosure management(RR2300 model)

Hot Swap and Hot Spare support

Audible alarm

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Introduction

LED support - disk activity and disk failure status (RR2300, 2302

models)

Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID 5 configurations

BIOS boot support (INT13)

Command Line Interface for RAID management (CLI)

Graphical RAID Management Software (RAID Management Console)

Web-based RAID Management Software

Automatic RAID rebuild

SMTP support for email notification

Windows/Win x64, Linux and FreeBSD support

Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology

The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the

functions of the RocketRAID 230x HostAdapter cards.

Diskinitialization

Initializing a disk writes necessary RAID configuration information to that disk. Disks

must be initialized before configuring them into RAID arrays. The initialization

process will destroy all data on the disk.

Disk Status

New The disk contains no data and has not been initialized.

Initialized The disk has been initialized and can be used for array creation.

Configured The disk has been assigned to one or more arrays, or configured as a

spare disk.

Legacy The disk was used on other controllers before use with the RocketRAID

230x (see legacy disk below).

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Introduction

Arrayinitialization

A redundant array (RAID5, RAID1, RAID10) needs to be initialized to ensure full

performance and reliability. Non-redundant arrays (RAID0, JBOD) do not need to be

initialized.

When you create a redundant array using the host adapter’s BIOS Configuration

Utility, it will create the array in un-initialized state. The initialization process can be

completed after installing the driver and management software.

When creating an array using the HighPoint RAID Management Console software,

you can specify an initialization option (Skip initialization, foreground and

background).

Foregroundinitialization

Foreground initialization will zero-out all data on the array. The array is not accessible

by the operating system until initialization is complete.

Backgroundinitialization

Background initialization allows the array to be used immediately. For RAID1 and

RAID10 arrays, initialization will results in data being duplicated identically to the

mirror pair. For RAID5 arrays, initialization will result in parity being generated from

all array members.

Note:An un-initialized RAID1 or RAID10 array can still provide redundancy in case

of a disk failure.ARAID5 array, however, is not fault-tolerant until initialization is

finished.

OnlineCapacity Expansion(OCE)

This feature allows disks to be added to existing RAID arrays, in order to increase the

array’s capacity, without fear of data loss. Any number of disks can be added to an

array, at any time. Data can be accessed and utilized even while being redistributed.

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Introduction

Online RAID Level Migration

This term describes the ability to change one type of array (RAID level), into a

different type of array (changing a RAID 1 array into a RAID 10 array for example).

Data is still accessible during the migration process, and a base level of security is

still active.

OCE, ORLM and the RocketRAID 230x

These host adapters support both Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), and Online

RAID Level Migration (ORLM). Both features are supported by a single function - an

array can be transformed from one RAID level to another RAID level while simulta-

neously being resized, even under I/O load.

Spare disk

A spare disk is a single disk that can be used to automatically rebuild a redundant

array in case of drive failure. Spare disks may also be members of a RAID array. Any

available space on these disks may be used to rebuild other broken arrays.

Legacy disk

Disks attached to the host adapter that contain valid partition tables will be identified

as “legacy” disks. A legacy disk attached to the host adapter can be accessed by the

operating system, but cannot be used to create RAID arrays. A legacy disk must be

initialized before assigning it to an array.

Supports RR1640 RAID arrays

The host adapter will recognize arrays created using the RocketRAID 1640 host

adapter. This feature simplifies hardware upgrade procedures, allowing RR1640 users

to take advantage of evolving SATA and bus technology, without having to recreate

arrays, and restoring data from backup.

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Chapter 2

RocketRAID 230x

Hardware Description/Installation

Contents of this Chapter:

RocketRAID230xHardware

1 - RocketRAID 230x HostAdapter Layout

2 - LED Connections

3 - Installing the RocketRAID HostAdapter

4 - Verifying Installation

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