Dell UCPM-800 manual Deploying The Shared Perc 8 Card, Driver Installation

Shared PERC 8 Card Cache Preservation	19
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle	20
The Controller Failover Feature	20
Multipath Support	21
Configuring Multipath Support In Windows	21
Configuring Multipath Support In VMWare	21
Multipath support in Linux	21
3 Deploying The Shared PERC 8 Card	22
Installing A New Shared PERC 8 Card	22
Replacing A Shared PERC 8 Card	22
Prerequisites For Removing The Shared PERC 8 Card	23
Removing The Shared PERC 8 Card	23
Installing The Shared PERC 8 Card	25
Post-Installation Tasks For Shared PERC 8 Card	25
Firmware installation or update	26
Updating firmware	26
4 Driver Installation	27
Downloading Drivers and Firmware For Shared PERC 8 From The Dell Support Website For
All Operating Systems	27
Downloading Drivers From The Dell Systems Service And Diagnostic Tools Media For
Windows	27
Installing Or Updating Windows Drivers For Shared PERC 8	28
Installing Or Updating Linux Drivers For Shared PERC 8	29
Installing Or Updating The Driver Package On RHEL Using KMOD Support	29
Installing Or Updating The Driver Package On SLES Using KMP Support	29
Installing Or Updating VMware Drivers For Shared PERC 8	29
5 Management Applications For Shared PERC 8 Card	30
6 Troubleshooting	31
Performance variations between write-back and write-through cache modes	31
Shared PERC 8 Card Boots Into Safe Mode	31
Degraded State Of Virtual Disks	32
General Issues	32
Shared PERC 8 Card Has Yellow Exclamation Mark In Device Manager	32
Shared PERC 8 Card Not Seen In Device Manager	32
Critical Errors Or Disk Warning Messages Seen In The Windows Event Log	32
Shared PERC 8 Cards Fail To Function	33
Physical disk issues	33
Incorrect Number of Virtual Disks Displayed In Windows Disk Manager	33