PIKE II 3108 Series PIKE II 3108-8i PIKE II 3108-4i4e
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Contents Contents....................................................................................................................... iii About this guide........................................................................................................... v PIKE II 3108 Series specifications summary........................................................... vii Chapter 1: Product Introduction 1.1 Welcome!.............................................................................................
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager.................................................................... 2-23 2.3.1 Hardware and Software Requirements...................................... 2-23 2.3.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on Microsoft Windows OS............................................................... 2-23 2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux....... 2-27 2.3.4 Linux Error Messages................................................................ 2-28 2.3.
About this guide This user guide contains the information you need when installing and configuring the server management board. How this guide is organized This guide contains the following parts: • Chapter 1: Product Introduction This chapter offers the PIKE II 3108 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports. • Chapter 2: RAID Configuration This chapter provides instructions on setting up, creating, and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities.
Conventions used in this guide To make sure that you perform certain tasks properly, take note of the following symbols used throughout this manual. DANGER/WARNING: Information to prevent injury to yourself when trying to complete a task. CAUTION: Information to prevent damage to the components when trying to complete a task. IMPORTANT: Instructions that you MUST follow to complete a task. NOTE: Tips and additional information to help you complete a task.
PIKE II 3108 Series specifications summary PIKE II 3108-8i/16PD Controller LSI SAS 3108 Interface PCI-E Gen 3 PIKE II 3108-8i/240PD 8 SAS 12Gb/s Ports (2 Mini-SAS HD SFF-8643) Ports Support Device PIKE II 3108-4i4e/240PD 8 SAS 12Gb/s Ports (1 Mini-SAS HD SFF8643 + 1 Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) SAS / SAS II /SAS 12Gb/s devices SATA II / SATA III devices Data transfer rate SAS 12Gb/s RAID Support RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6/60 Max. PHD Max.
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Product Introduction This chapter offers the PIKE II 3108 SAS RAID card features and the new technologies it supports.
1.1 Welcome! Thank you for buying an ASUS® PIKE II 3108 Series SAS RAID card! The ASUS PIKE II 3108 Series SAS RAID card supports 12 Gb/s SAS Technology and allows you to create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 50, RAID 6, and RAID 60 sets from SATA II/SATA III/SAS/SAS II/SAS III hard disk drives connected to the SAS connectors on the card. Before you start installing the RAID card, check the items in your package with the list below. 1.
1.3 Card layout The illustration below shows the major components of the RAID card. PIKE II 3108-8i DEFAULT_SEL1 HBLED1 DRLED1 FAILLED1 PIKE II 3108-4i4e DEFAULT_SEL1 HBLED1 DRLED1 FAILLED1 1. PCI-E x8 interface 2. Internal mini-SAS HD connectors 3. External mini-SAS HD connector 4. Switch* (for more than one card) 5. HBLED1 (HEARTBEAT LED): The LED shows the firmware heartbeat information (blinking) ASUS PIKE II 3108 Series 6. DRLED1 (Dirty cache LED): Write Pending (light) 7.
1.3.1 Switch settings When using more than one PIKE II card on your system, ensure to manually set the pin settings on the Switch on each of the PIKE II cards to ensure that the system detects all the cards installed. You can refer to the following table for the pin settings.
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1.5 Card installation To install the RAID card on your motherboard: 1. Locate the PCIE Gen3 slot on the motherboard. 2. Align the golden fingers of the PIKE card with the PCIE Gen3 card slot. 3. Insert the RAID card into the PCIE Gen3 card slot. Ensure the card is completely seated in place. PIKE RAID card PCI-E slot 4. For PIKE II 3108-8i, connect the hard disk drives to the internal Mini-SAS HD connectors.
RAID Configuration This chapter provides instructions on setting up, creating, and configuring RAID sets using the available utilities.
2.1 Setting up RAID The RAID card supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60. 2.1.1 RAID definitions RAID 0 (Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone, thus improving data access and storage. Use of at least two new identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.
2.1.2 • Having RAID 0 and RAID 5 virtual disks in the same physical array is not recommended. If a drive in the physical array has to be rebuilt, the RAID 0 virtual disk will cause a failure during the rebuild. • If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created RAID set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk before you install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive.
2.2.1 Starting the MegaRAID Configuration Utility Follow these steps to start the MegaRAID Configuration Utility and access the main screen. 2-4 1. Turn on the system after installing all SAS hard disk drives. 2. During POST, press when the following screen appears 3. If the system has multiple SAS controllers, a controller selection dialog appears. Select a controller and press .
2.2.2 MegaRAID Configuration Utility The integrated RAID solution allows you to create the following RAID sets from SAS hard disk drives supported by the LSI SAS 3108 12Gb/s SAS controller: RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60. • You may use disks of different sizes in one volume; however, the size of the smallest disk determines the “logical” size of each member disk. • DO NOT combine Serial ATA and SAS disk drives in one volume.
Utility Keystrokes Keystroke Action F1 Displays help for the particular screen that you are in. F2 Displays a list of commands that can be performed for the selected device. This key stroke is available only in the VD Mgmt, the PD Mgmt, and the Foreign View menus. The commands that are enabled are highlighted in white and the disabled commands are highlighted in black. NOTE: Based on the configurations that you make, commands are enabled or disabled.
2.2.3 VD Mgmt Menu This screen shows information on the configuration of controllers, drive groups, and virtual drives. In the Virtual Drive Management screen, you can perform tasks, such as creating and initializing virtual drives; performing a consistency check; deleting, expanding, and erasing virtual drives; importing or clearing foreign configurations; and creating CacheCade virtual drives. The right panel of the screen shows attributes of the selected device.
2.2.4 PD Mgmt Menu The PD Mgmt menu shows information about all the physical drives connected to the selected controller. This menu also shows information about enclosures, the number of physical drives in an enclosure, and all of the direct-attached drives under a backplane node. In the Drive Management screen, you can perform tasks, such as rebuilding a failed drive, making a drive offline, or making it a global hot spare drive.
2.2.5 Ctrl Mgmt Menu The Ctrl Mgmt menu lets you change the settings of the selected controller. The Ctrl Mgmt menu consists of two screens. In the first screen, you can change controller options, such as Enable Controller BIOS, Maintain PD Fail History, Enable JBOD, Auto Enhanced Import, and Enable Stop CC on Error. You also can perform tasks, such as enabling or silencing an alarm, entering values for Rebuild Rate and Patrol Rate, and enabling or disabling the JBOD mode.
2.2.6 Properties Menu The Properties menu shows all of the properties of the active controller. The Properties menu consists of two screens. The information shown in these screens is read only. In the first screen, you can view properties, such as controller status, firmware version, BIOS version, and metadata size. To view additional properties, you can navigate to Next and press .
2.2.7 Foreign View Menu The Foreign View menu is shown only when the controller detects a foreign configuration. If no foreign configurations exists, the Foreign View menu is not shown. If one or more physical drives in a configuration are removed and reinserted, the controller considers the drives as foreign configurations. You can use the Foreign Config View screen to view information about the foreign configuration, such as drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, and hot spares.
2.2.8 Managing Software Licensing The MegaRAID advanced software offers the software license key feature to enable the advanced options. The license key is also known as the activation key. To configure the Advanced Software options by using the activation key: 1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to the controller and press the key. 2. Navigate to Advanced Software Options, and press . 3. Enter a valid activation key in the Activation Key field.
2.2.9 Creating a Storage Configuration You can configure RAID drive groups and virtual drives to create storage configurations on systems with LSI SAS controllers. To create a storage configuration: 1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to the controller and press the key. 2. Press . The Create New VD screen appears. You can use the Create New VD dialog to create virtual drives for Unconfigured Good drives.
To initialize the virtual drive: 1. Navigate to the Virtual Drive you just created. 2. Press and then choose one of the Initialization options. 2.2.10 Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties This section describes the following additional virtual drive properties that you can select while you create virtual drives. Change these parameters only if you have a specific reason for doing so. It is usually best to keep them at their default settings.
Strip Size – The strip size is the portion of the stripe that resides on a single virtual drive in the drive group. Strip sizes of 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1 MB are supported. Read Policy – Specify one of the following options to specify the read policy for this virtual drive: Normal – Read ahead capability lets the controller read sequentially ahead of requested data and to store the additional data in cache memory, thereby anticipating that the data will be needed soon.
Disk cache policy – Select a cache setting for this virtual drive: Enable – Enable the drive cache. Disable – Disable the drive cache. Unchanged – Updating the drive cache policy to Unchanged may enable / disable the drive cache based on the WCE (Write Cache Policy) bit of the save mode page of the drive. Emulation – Lets you to set the emulation type on a virtual drive to default or none. The force option forces the emulation to be set on a controller even when MFC settings do not support it.
2.2.11 Modifying Controller Properties The Utility shows information for one LSI SAS controller at a time. If your system has multiple LSI SAS controllers, you can view information for a different controller by pressing the key and selecting a controller from the list. Navigate to the Properties menu to view the properties of the active controller. To change the controller properties: 1. Navigate to the Ctrl Mgmt menu to view the first Controller Settings screen. 2.
Options Descriptions BGI Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to background initialization of virtual drives connected to the selected controller. The range of background initialization (BGI) rate is between 0 and 100 percent. CC Rate Use this option to select the amount of system resources dedicated to consistency checks of virtual drives connected to the selected controller. The range of Consistency Check (CC) rate is between 0 and 100 percent. Recon.
Options Descriptions Set Factory Defaults Set Factory Defaults Manage Link Speed Use this option to change the link speed between the controller and the expander, or between a controller and a drive that is directly connected to the controller Manage Power Save Use this option to reduce the power consumption of drives that are not in use, by spinning down the unconfigured good drives, hot spares and configured drives.
2.2.12 Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties The Utility shows the properties, policies, and the operations for virtual drives. To view these items for the currently selected virtual drive and to change some of these settings: 1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a virtual drive, and press the key. 2. Press . 2.2.13 Deleting a Virtual Drive You can delete any virtual drive on the controller if you want to reuse that space for a new virtual drive.
2.2.14 Deleting a Virtual Drive Group You can delete a virtual drive group. On deleting a drive group, all the virtual drives in that drive group also are deleted. Back up any data that you want to keep before you delete a virtual drive group. To delete a virtual drive group: 1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a virtual drive group, and press the key. 2. Navigate to Delete Drive Group, and press . 3. Press OK to delete the virtual drive group. 2.2.
2.2.16 Running a Consistency Check You should periodically run a consistency check on fault-tolerant virtual drives (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 configurations; RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy). A consistency check scans the virtual drive to determine whether the data has become corrupted and needs to be restored. Make sure to back up the data before you run a consistency check, if you think the data might be corrupted. To run a consistency check: 2-22 1.
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to configure, monitor, and maintain storage configurations on LSI SAS controllers. The MegaRAID Storage Manager graphical user interface (GUI) makes it easy for you to create and manage storage configurations. 2.3.
5. Enter your user name and organization name. In the bottom part of the screen, select an installation option: – If you select All users, any user with administrative privileges can use this version of MegaRAID Storage Manager software to view or change storage configurations. – If you select Only for current user, the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcuts and associated icons will be available only to the user with this user name. 6. Click Next to continue. 7.
8. 9. Select one of the Setup options. The options are fully explained in the screen text. – Normally, you would select Complete if you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a server. – Select Custom Installation if you want to select individual program components. Click Next to continue. If you selected Custom Installation as your setup option, the second Setup Type screen appears, as shown in the following figure.
If you select Custom, a window listing the installation features appears, as shown in the following figure. Select the features you want on this screen. 11. Click Next to proceed. 12. Click Install to install the program. 13. When the final Configuration Wizard screen appears, click Finish.
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Red Hat Linux or SUSE Linux: 1. Copy the MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz file to a temporary folder. 2. Untar the MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz file using the following command: tar -zxvf MSM_linux_installer...tar.gz A new disk directory is created. 3. Go to the new disk directory. 4. In the disk directory, find and read the readme.txt file. 5.
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages The following messages may appear while you are installing MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Linux system: • More than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software has been installed. This message indicates that the user has installed more than one copy of MegaRAID Storage Manager software. (This can be done by using the rpmforce command to install the rpm file directly, which is not recommended, instead of using the install.sh file.
2.3.5 Starting the MegaRAID Storage Manager Software Follow these steps to start the MegaRAID Storage Manager software and view the main window: 1. Start the program using the method required for your operating system environment: – To start MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a Microsoft Windows system, select Start > All Programs > MegaRAID Storage Manager > StartupUI, or double-click the MegaRAID Storage Manager shortcut on the desktop.
If the circle in Health column of the corresponding server is orange instead of green, it means that the server is running in a degraded state—for example, because a drive used in a virtual drive has failed. If the circle is red, the storage configuration in the server has failed. You can click Configure Host if you want to select the display preferences for the server. You can choose to display only the local server, systems from a list, or display all of the systems in the network of the local server. 3.
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window After you log in, the dashboard view provides an overview of the system and covers the properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives, total capacity, configured capacity, unconfigured capacity, background operations in progress, MegaRAID Storage Manager features and their status (enabled or disabled), and actions you can perform, such as creating a virtual drive and updating the firmware, as shown in the following figure.
You can click the Physical tab to view the drives connected to the controller or Logical tab to view the virtual drives connected to the controller. The following icons in the left panel represent the controllers, drives, and other devices: • System • Controller • Slot for a drive • Drive group • Virtual drive A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed. For example, this icon indicates that a drive has failed: .
Properties View Panel The right panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window has the Properties tab that displays information about the selected device. For example, if a controller icon is selected in the left panel, the Properties tab lists information such as the controller name, NVRAM size, and device port count. Event Log Panel The lower part of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window displays the system event log entries. New event log entries appear during the session.
Help Menu On the Help menu you can select Help > Contents to view the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help file. You can select Help > About MegaRAID Storage Manager to view version information for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. 2-34 • When you use the MegaRAID Storage Manager online help, you may see a warning message that Internet Explorer has restricted the file from showing active content. If this warning appears, click on the active content warning bar and enable the active content.
Driver Installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the RAID card driver on different operating systems.
3.1 RAID driver installation After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides instructions on how to install or update the RAID card drivers. The RAID card driver might be included in the Linux OS installation CD, and could be loaded automatically during OS installation. However, we recommend using the RAID driver packaged in the RAID card support CD for better reliability. 3.1.
5. Remove the installation DVD on the disc drive and replace it with the bundled support DVD that contains the RAID driver. 6. Click Browse and locate the driver on the support DVD. 7. Select the driver from the list then click Next. 8. Wait for the driver installation to finish. 9. When done, remove the support DVD and replace it with the installation DVD 10. Continue installing the operating system and follow onscreen instructions to complete the installation. 11.
3.1.2 Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS 7.0 To install the RAID card driver when installing Red Hat® Enterprise OS: 1. Copy or unzip the dd.iso file to a USB storage device then connect the USB storage device to your system. To get the dd.iso from the support CD, go to Drivers > PIKE_II_3108-8i_16PD_PIKE_ II_3108-8i_240PD_PIKE_II_3108-4i4e_240PD > Driver > Linux > rhel7_oel7_centos7 > disks-1.To download dd.iso from the ASUS website, visit www.asus.com. 3-4 2.
5. From the Driver disk device selection list, key in <5>, then press . 6. From the Choose driver disk ISO file list, key in <2>, then press . 7. Key in , then press to continue.
3.1.3 1. SUSE Linux OS 12 Copy or unzip the dd.iso file to a USB storage device then connect the USB storage device to your system. To get the dd.iso from the support CD, go to Drivers > PIKE_II_3108-8i_16PD_PIKE_ II_3108-8i_240PD_PIKE_II_3108-4i4e_240PD > Driver > Linux > sles12 > disks-1.To download dd.iso from the ASUS website, visit www.asus.com. 3-6 2. Boot the system from the SUSE OS installation CD. 3. From the initial installation page, press and select Yes to load the driver.
4. Follow on-screen instructions to continue with the installation.
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