Contents

Contents.......................................................................................................

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About this guide..........................................................................................

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PIKE 1064E/1068E specifications summary.............................................

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Chapter 1:

Product introduction

 

1.1

Welcome!

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1-2

1.2

Package contents.........................................................................

1-2

1.3

Card layout....................................................................................

1-3

1.4

System requirements...................................................................

1-3

1.5

Card installation............................................................................

1-4

Chapter 2:

RAID configuration

 

2.1

Setting up RAID............................................................................

2-2

 

2.1.1

RAID definitions...............................................................

2-2

 

2.1.2

Installing hard disk drives................................................

2-2

2.2

LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility..............................................

2-3

 

2.2.1

Integrated Mirroring volume.............................................

2-4

 

2.2.2

Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume...........................

2-8

 

2.2.3

Integrated Striping (IS) volume......................................

2-10

 

2.2.4

Managing Arrays............................................................

2-12

 

2.2.5

Viewing SAS topology...................................................

2-17

 

2.2.6

Global Properties...........................................................

2-18

Chapter 3:

Driver installation

 

3.1

RAID driver installation................................................................

3-2

 

3.1.1

Creating a RAID driver disk.............................................

3-2

 

3.1.2

Windows® Server 2003 OS..............................................

3-4

 

3.1.3

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS.........................................

3-9

 

3.1.4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS.................................

3-11

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