Contents

 

Hardware features

5

Board components

5

Controller specifications

5

Overview of the installation procedure

7

Installing the controller in an unconfigured server

7

Installing the controller in a previously configured server

7

Installing the controller hardware

9

Before beginning the installation

9

Preparing the server

9

Installing the controller board

9

Connecting storage devices

10

Updating the firmware

11

Methods for updating the firmware

11

Configuring an array

12

Introduction

12

Comparing the utilities

12

Using ORCA

13

Using ACU

14

Using CPQONLIN

14

Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio

14

Expanding an array

15

Adding or configuring spare drives

15

Migrating RAID level and stripe size online

16

Setting the boot controller and controller order

17

Setting a controller as the boot controller

17

Setting the controller order

17

Installing device drivers and Management Agents

18

Installing device drivers

18

Installing Management Agents

18

Upgrading or replacing controller options

19

Replacing a battery

19

Upgrading the cache

20

Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives

22

Identifying the status of a hard drive

22

Recognizing hard drive failure

23

Effects of a hard drive failure

24

Compromised fault tolerance

24

Recovering from compromised fault tolerance

24

Replacing hard drives

24

Hard drive replacement guidelines

25

Automatic data recovery (rebuild)

25

Upgrading hard drive capacity

27

Moving drives and arrays

28

Adding drives

28

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