Hardware features ........................................................................................................................
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Board components ....................................................................................................................................
Controller specifications .............................................................................................................................
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................
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Installing the controller in an unconfigured server ..........................................................................................
Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................
Installing the controller hardware....................................................................................................
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Before beginning the installation .................................................................................................................
Preparing the server...................................................................................................................................
Installing the controller board......................................................................................................................
Connecting storage devices ......................................................................................................................
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Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................
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Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................
Configuring an array ..................................................................................................................
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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................
Comparing the utilities .............................................................................................................................
Using ORCA...........................................................................................................................................
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Using ACU .............................................................................................................................................
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Using CPQONLIN...................................................................................................................................
Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................
Expanding an array.......................................................................................................................
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Adding or configuring spare drives..................................................................................................
Migrating RAID level and stripe size online.......................................................................................
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Setting the boot controller and controller order...............................................................................
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Setting a controller as the boot controller....................................................................................................
Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................
Installing device drivers and Management Agents ..........................................................................
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Installing device drivers ............................................................................................................................
Installing Management Agents ..................................................................................................................
Upgrading or replacing controller options .....................................................................................
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Replacing a battery .................................................................................................................................
Upgrading the cache ...............................................................................................................................
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Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives .....................................................................................
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Identifying the status of a hard drive ..........................................................................................................
Recognizing hard drive failure ..................................................................................................................
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Effects of a hard drive failure ..........................................................................................................
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Compromised fault tolerance ..........................................................................................................
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance....................................................................................
Replacing hard drives ..............................................................................................................................
Hard drive replacement guidelines ..................................................................................................
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Automatic data recovery (rebuild) ....................................................................................................
Upgrading hard drive capacity .......................................................................................................
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Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................
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Adding drives .........................................................................................................................................
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