Maintenance ..............................................................................................................................
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Maintenance tools ...................................................................................................................................
Common maintenance tasks .....................................................................................................................
Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package..................................................................................
Disabling AutoAttach .....................................................................................................................
Enabling Autoattach ......................................................................................................................
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Unmanaged shutdown issues ..........................................................................................................
Enabling PCIe power override ..................................................................................................................
Enabling the override parameter .....................................................................................................
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Utilities ......................................................................................................................................
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Utilities reference.....................................................................................................................................
fio-attach................................................................................................................................................
fio-beacon ..............................................................................................................................................
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fio-bugreport...........................................................................................................................................
fio-config................................................................................................................................................
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fio-config options...........................................................................................................................
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fio-detach ...............................................................................................................................................
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fio-format ...............................................................................................................................................
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fio-pci-check ...........................................................................................................................................
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fio-status.................................................................................................................................................
fio-sure-erase ..........................................................................................................................................
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fio-trim-config..........................................................................................................................................
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fio-update-iodrive ....................................................................................................................................
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Monitoring IO Accelerator health .................................................................................................
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NAND flash and component failure...........................................................................................................
Health metrics.........................................................................................................................................
Health monitoring techniques....................................................................................................................
Flashback substitution events.....................................................................................................................
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Software RAID and health monitoring ........................................................................................................
Trim support ...............................................................................................................................
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Introduction to Trim..................................................................................................................................
Trim platforms .........................................................................................................................................
Using Trim..............................................................................................................................................
Starting and stopping Trim..............................................................................................................
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Enabling Trim................................................................................................................................
Controlling Trim aggressiveness.......................................................................................................
Trim configurations ..................................................................................................................................
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Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator.........................................................................
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Introduction to Windows page files ...........................................................................................................
Configuring IO Accelerator paging support ................................................................................................
RAM consumption .........................................................................................................................
Non-paged memory pool ...............................................................................................................
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Enabling and disabling paging support............................................................................................
Windows page file management...............................................................................................................
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Setting up page files ......................................................................................................................
System drive paging file configuration..............................................................................................
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Guaranteeing minimum committable memory ....................................................................................
Verifying page file operation ..........................................................................................................
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Virtual Memory performance ....................................................................................................................
Performance and tuning...............................................................................................................
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