Installation and User’s Guide
Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers
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Contents
2 Kit Contents and System Requirements
1 About This Guide
3 About Your RAID Controller
5 Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
6 Creating a Bootable Array
7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System
4 Getting Started
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Solving Problems
Managing Your Storage Space
C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Introduction to SAS
Understanding RAID
Using the ACU to Manage the maxCache Pool
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Safety Information
Technical Specifications
Contents
Index
About This Guide
How to Find More Information
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
Kit Contents and System
Requirements
In this chapter
Kit Contents
System Requirements
Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Quick Start Guide
Chapter 2 Kit Contents and System Requirements
DVD-ROM drive
About Your RAID Controller
In this chapter
Standard RAID Controller Features
Array-level Features
Adding a Battery Backup Module
Adding a Flash Backup Module
Upgrading the Controller Firmware
Advanced Data Protection Suite
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 5085 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
The Adaptec RAID 5405 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0 Drive Activity LEDs for CN0
Mode 0 Flash connector Aggregate Activity
PCIe x8 connector Mounting bracket
The Adaptec RAID 5445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
About the Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
compatibility
page
The Adaptec RAID 51245 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
CN6 1 external mini-SAS connector
CN0 3 internal CN1 mini-SAS CN2 connectors
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 51645 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
connectors
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 52445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
page
About the Adaptec RAID 5405Z
The Adaptec RAID 5405Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 5445Z
The Adaptec RAID 5445Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ
CN1 2 internal mini-SAS connectors CN0
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
compatibility
The Adaptec RAID 2045 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 2805 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Internal mini-SAS connector CN1 Internal mini-SAS connector CN0
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
The Adaptec RAID 6405 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Ext. Alarm connector Aggregate Activity HDA mode connector
Daughterboard connector
About the Adaptec RAID
The Adaptec RAID 6445 is a SAS RAID controller with these features
About the Adaptec RAID
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Internal mini-SAS
About the Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
compatibility
About the Adaptec RAID 6405E
The Adaptec RAID 6405E is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 6805E
The Adaptec RAID 6805E is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 6405T
The Adaptec RAID 6405T is a SAS RAID controller with these features
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
About the Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ
Ext. Alarm connector HDA mode connector Aggregate Activity
Daughterboard connector PCIe x8 connector Mounting bracket
Chapter 3 About Your RAID Controller
Getting Started
Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Choosing a RAID Level
Choosing a RAID Level
Chapter 4 Getting Started
Selecting Disk Drives and Cables
Disk Drives
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
Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Installing with an Operating System
Installing on an Existing Operating System
Installing the Controller and Disk
Drives
In this chapter
Installing the Controller
Installing a RAID Controller
Before You Begin
Read Safety Information on page
Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Supercapacitor module Connector on daughterboard
Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers
Connecting Drives Directly to the Controller
Connecting Drives to a System Backplane
Disk drives on backplane External SAS cable connecting to a drive bay
Disk drives on backplane
Connecting Solid State Drives SSDs
Typical SSD installation
Connecting External Devices
Next Steps
To other SSDs Internal x4 mini-SAS connector Single-port connector
Creating a Bootable Array
Setting the Boot Controller
Making Your Array Bootable
In this chapter
Setting the Boot Controller
Creating an Array
Creating an Array with the ACU
14 Continue with Making Your Array Bootable on page
4 Select Initialize Drives, then press Enter
Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager
6 Select Express configuration..., then click Next
Making Your Array Bootable
Installing the Driver and an
Operating System
To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page
In this chapter
Creating a Driver Disk
Create a bootable array see page
Before You Begin
Installing with Windows
Installing with Windows Server
Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Red Hat Linux
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6 or Fedora Linux
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with SuSE Linux
Installing with Debian Linux
cp -a /update/install /mnt/tmp
10 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/aacraid-driver
cp /tempdir/* /mnt/aacraid-driver
fdisk -l
Installing with Ubuntu Linux
13 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
13 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Solaris
Installing with VMware ESX
3 Select Apply driver updates
Installing with VMware ESXi
Note Continue using PowerCLI in Steps 6b through 6j
# $DefaultSoftwareDepots
# Add-PSSnapIn VMware.ImageBuilder
# Get-EsxImageProfile
g Change the vendor and acceptance level of the new image profile
Installing with FreeBSD
Installing the Driver on an Existing
Operating System
In this chapter
Chapter 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Windows Server
Installing on Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
Installing on Debian Linux
Installing on Ubuntu Linux
5 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
5 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing on Solaris
Installing on VMware
7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Chapter 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
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
Installing on FreeBSD
6 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Managing Your Storage Space
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
About Adaptec Storage Manager
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
About Adaptec Storage Manager
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
Which Utility Should I Use?
Which Utility Should I Use on VMware?
On VMware ESXi 5.0 and VMware ESXi 4.1 systems
Solving Problems
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Resetting the Controller
Troubleshooting Checklist
Troubleshooting Checklist
Silencing the Alarm
Monitoring Disk Drives Status
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
Resetting the Controller
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
Multiple Failures in the Same Array
Failed Drive in maxCache Pool
Note You will be prompted to insert other disks, as needed
Introduction to SAS
In this appendix
What is SAS?
Terminology Used in This Chapter
Appendix A Introduction to SAS
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
What’s a Phy?
What’s a SAS Connector?
What’s a SAS Port?
What’s a SAS Address?
What do SAS Cables Look Like?
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS?
What are the SAS Connection Options?
Direct-attach Connections
Backplane Connections
SAS Expander Connections
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?
Understanding RAID
Understanding Drive Segments
Non-redundant Arrays RAID
Appendix B Understanding RAID
RAID 1 Arrays
RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays
Unused Space = 150 GB
RAID 1E Logical Drive = 600 GB
RAID 10 Arrays
RAID 5 Arrays
RAID 5EE Arrays
RAID 50 Arrays
RAID 6 Arrays
RAID 60 Arrays
Selecting the Best RAID Level
Minimum
Write
Built-in
Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Using the ACU to Create and Manage Arrays
Introduction to the ARC Utility
Running the ARC Utility
Navigating the ARC Utility
Managing Existing Arrays
Creating Bootable Arrays
Modifying Power Management Settings
Modifying Cache Settings
Power Off Drive After
off. This is an optional setting
Note Power Off Drive After duration should be greater than Slow
Initializing Disk Drives
Rescanning Disk Drives
Secure Erasing Disk Drives
Managing Global Hot Spares
Using the ACU to Create and Manage JBODs
Using the ACU to Manage the maxCache Pool
Creating a New JBOD
Managing Existing JBODs
Using SerialSelect to Modify Controller Settings
Modifying Your Controller’s Configuration
Opening SerialSelect
Applying Changes and Exiting
General Controller Settings
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Power Management Settings
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
Locating Disk Drives
PHY Settings
Appendix C Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Identifying Disk Drives
Viewing the Event Log
Location
Model
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
In this appendix
Obtaining the Firmware
System Requirements
Before You Begin
Creating the Firmware Update Disks
Running the Menu-based AFU
Running the AFU from the Command Line
AFU Commands
These switches are available
The command syntax for the VERIFY command is as follows
Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line
To update a single RAID controller
To update multiple RAID controllers
To update all RAID controllers simultaneously
Controller LED and I2C Connector
Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification
Status LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J14
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector Specification
I2C Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-43-3030 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z LED and I2C Connector Specification
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
J14 Adaptec RAID 5445 only
Aggregate LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 50-57-9002 or equivalent
Adaptec RAID 51245 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Activity LED Mating Cable Connector Molex 22-55-2161 or equivalent J1
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 51645 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
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 2045 LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 2805 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Appendix E Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference
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
Safety Information
Electrostatic Discharge ESD
Technical Specifications
In this appendix
Environmental Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Current Requirements
Appendix G Technical Specifications
Index
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Page
description 89 direct-attach connections 92 disk drives
Adaptec RAID Controller utility 81 AFU
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