Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers
Installation and User’s Guide
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2 Kit Contents and System Requirements
Contents
1 About This Guide
3 About Your RAID Controller
6 Creating a Bootable Array
5 Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System
4 Getting Started
Solving Problems
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Managing Your Storage Space
Introduction to SAS
C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Understanding RAID
Using the ACU to Manage the maxCache Pool
Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
Technical Specifications
Safety Information
Contents
Index
About This Guide
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
How to Find More Information
Terminology Used in this Guide
Requirements
Kit Contents and System
In this chapter
System Requirements
Kit Contents
Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Quick Start Guide
DVD-ROM drive
Chapter 2 Kit Contents and System Requirements
In this chapter
About Your RAID Controller
Array-level Features
Standard RAID Controller Features
Adding a Flash Backup Module
Adding a Battery Backup Module
Upgrading the Controller Firmware
Advanced Data Protection Suite
The Adaptec RAID 5085 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0 Drive Activity LEDs for CN0
The Adaptec RAID 5405 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Mode 0 Flash connector Aggregate Activity
PCIe x8 connector Mounting bracket
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 5445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q
compatibility
page
CN6 1 external mini-SAS connector
The Adaptec RAID 51245 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
CN0 3 internal CN1 mini-SAS CN2 connectors
About the Adaptec RAID
connectors
The Adaptec RAID 51645 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 52445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
The Adaptec RAID 5405Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID 5405Z
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 5445Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID 5445Z
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
CN1 2 internal mini-SAS connectors CN0
About the Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
compatibility
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 2045 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q
Internal mini-SAS connector CN1 Internal mini-SAS connector CN0
The Adaptec RAID 2805 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Ext. Alarm connector Aggregate Activity HDA mode connector
The Adaptec RAID 6405 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Daughterboard connector
About the Adaptec RAID
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 6445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Internal mini-SAS
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q
compatibility
The Adaptec RAID 6405E is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID 6405E
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 6805E is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID 6805E
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 6405T is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID 6405T
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Ext. Alarm connector HDA mode connector Aggregate Activity
About the Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ
Daughterboard connector PCIe x8 connector Mounting bracket
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Installation Options
Getting Started
Basic Installation Steps
Choosing a RAID Level
Chapter 4 Getting Started
Choosing a RAID Level
Disk Drives
Selecting Disk Drives and Cables
Cables
Chapter 4 Getting Started
Replacing the Full-Height Bracket with a Low-Profile Bracket
To replace the full-height bracket with the low-profile bracket
Basic Installation Steps
Installation Options
Installing with an Operating System
Installing on an Existing Operating System
Drives
Installing the Controller and Disk
In this chapter
Installing a RAID Controller
Installing the Controller
Before You Begin
Read Safety Information on page
Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Supercapacitor module Connector on daughterboard
Connecting Drives Directly to the Controller
Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers
Disk drives on backplane External SAS cable connecting to a drive bay
Connecting Drives to a System Backplane
Disk drives on backplane
Typical SSD installation
Connecting Solid State Drives SSDs
Next Steps
Connecting External Devices
To other SSDs Internal x4 mini-SAS connector Single-port connector
Setting the Boot Controller
Creating a Bootable Array
Making Your Array Bootable
In this chapter
Creating an Array
Setting the Boot Controller
Creating an Array with the ACU
4 Select Initialize Drives, then press Enter
14 Continue with Making Your Array Bootable on page
6 Select Express configuration..., then click Next
Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager
Making Your Array Bootable
Operating System
Installing the Driver and an
To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page
In this chapter
Create a bootable array see page
Creating a Driver Disk
Before You Begin
Installing with Windows Server
Installing with Windows
Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6 or Fedora Linux
Installing with Red Hat Linux
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Debian Linux
Installing with SuSE Linux
cp -a /update/install /mnt/tmp
10 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
cp /tempdir/* /mnt/aacraid-driver
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/aacraid-driver
fdisk -l
13 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Ubuntu Linux
13 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with VMware ESX
Installing with Solaris
3 Select Apply driver updates
Installing with VMware ESXi
# $DefaultSoftwareDepots
Note Continue using PowerCLI in Steps 6b through 6j
# Add-PSSnapIn VMware.ImageBuilder
# Get-EsxImageProfile
g Change the vendor and acceptance level of the new image profile
Installing with FreeBSD
Operating System
Installing the Driver on an Existing
In this chapter
Before You Begin
Chapter 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing on Red Hat, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Windows
Installing on Windows Server
Installing on Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
Installing on Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Debian Linux
5 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
5 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing on VMware
Installing on Solaris
7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
scp /mnt/cdrom/linux/driver/vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-aacraid-400.4.1.7.28300- 1.0.4.260247.x8664.vib root@esx-server-ip/tmp/aacraid
Chapter 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
6 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing on FreeBSD
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
Managing Your Storage Space
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
About Adaptec Storage Manager
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Which Utility Should I Use?
Which Utility Should I Use on VMware?
On VMware ESXi 5.0 and VMware ESXi 4.1 systems
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Solving Problems
Resetting the Controller
Troubleshooting Checklist
Silencing the Alarm
Troubleshooting Checklist
Monitoring Disk Drives Status
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
Resetting the Controller
Multiple Failures in the Same Array
Failed Drive in maxCache Pool
Note You will be prompted to insert other disks, as needed
In this appendix
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter
What is SAS?
Appendix A Introduction to SAS
What’s a Phy?
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
What’s a SAS Port?
What’s a SAS Connector?
What’s a SAS Address?
What do SAS Cables Look Like?
What are the SAS Connection Options?
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS?
Direct-attach Connections
Backplane Connections
SAS Expander Connections
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?
Understanding RAID
Non-redundant Arrays RAID
Understanding Drive Segments
Appendix B Understanding RAID
RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays
RAID 1 Arrays
Unused Space = 150 GB
RAID 1E Logical Drive = 600 GB
RAID 10 Arrays
RAID 5 Arrays
RAID 5EE Arrays
RAID 50 Arrays
RAID 60 Arrays
RAID 6 Arrays
Minimum
Selecting the Best RAID Level
Write
Built-in
Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Introduction to the ARC Utility
Using the ACU to Create and Manage Arrays
Running the ARC Utility
Navigating the ARC Utility
Creating Bootable Arrays
Managing Existing Arrays
Modifying Power Management Settings
Power Off Drive After
Modifying Cache Settings
off. This is an optional setting
Note Power Off Drive After duration should be greater than Slow
Rescanning Disk Drives
Initializing Disk Drives
Secure Erasing Disk Drives
Managing Global Hot Spares
Using the ACU to Manage the maxCache Pool
Using the ACU to Create and Manage JBODs
Creating a New JBOD
Managing Existing JBODs
Modifying Your Controller’s Configuration
Using SerialSelect to Modify Controller Settings
Opening SerialSelect
Applying Changes and Exiting
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
General Controller Settings
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Power Management Settings
Locating Disk Drives
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
PHY Settings
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Viewing the Event Log
Identifying Disk Drives
Location
Model
In this appendix
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
System Requirements
Obtaining the Firmware
Before You Begin
Running the Menu-based AFU
Creating the Firmware Update Disks
AFU Commands
Running the AFU from the Command Line
These switches are available
The command syntax for the VERIFY command is as follows
To update a single RAID controller
Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line
To update multiple RAID controllers
To update all RAID controllers simultaneously
Quick Reference
Controller LED and I2C Connector
Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Status LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J14
I2C Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-43-3030 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z LED and I2C Connector Specification
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
J14 Adaptec RAID 5445 only
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 51245 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Activity LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J1
Adaptec RAID 51645 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Activity LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J1
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 52445 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Activity LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J1
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 2045 LED Connector Specification
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 2805 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405/6445 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405E LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805E LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405T LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ LED Connector Specification
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Electrostatic Discharge ESD
Safety Information
In this appendix
Technical Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Environmental Specifications
Current Requirements
Appendix G Technical Specifications
Index
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