Contents

 

Hardware features ........................................................................................................................

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Board components ....................................................................................................................................

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Controller specifications .............................................................................................................................

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Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................

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Installing the controller in an unconfigured server ..........................................................................................

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Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................

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Installing the controller hardware....................................................................................................

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Before beginning the installation .................................................................................................................

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Preparing the server...................................................................................................................................

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Installing the controller board......................................................................................................................

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Connecting storage devices ......................................................................................................................

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Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................

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Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................

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Configuring an array ..................................................................................................................

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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................

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Comparing the utilities .............................................................................................................................

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Using ORCA...........................................................................................................................................

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Using ACU .............................................................................................................................................

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Using CPQONLIN...................................................................................................................................

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Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................

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Expanding an array.......................................................................................................................

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Adding or configuring spare drives..................................................................................................

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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....................................................................................................

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Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................

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Installing device drivers and Management Agents ..........................................................................

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Installing device drivers ............................................................................................................................

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Installing Management Agents ..................................................................................................................

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Upgrading or replacing controller options .....................................................................................

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Replacing a battery .................................................................................................................................

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Upgrading the cache ...............................................................................................................................

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Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives .....................................................................................

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Identifying the status of a hard drive ..........................................................................................................

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Recognizing hard drive failure ..................................................................................................................

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Effects of a hard drive failure ..........................................................................................................

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Compromised fault tolerance ..........................................................................................................

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Recovering from compromised fault tolerance....................................................................................

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Replacing hard drives ..............................................................................................................................

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Hard drive replacement guidelines ..................................................................................................

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Automatic data recovery (rebuild) ....................................................................................................

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Upgrading hard drive capacity .......................................................................................................

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Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................

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Adding drives .........................................................................................................................................

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