Contents

 

About this guide ...........................................................................................................................

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Contents summary .....................................................................................................................................

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

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Overview .................................................................................................................................................

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Product naming.........................................................................................................................................

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Performance attributes................................................................................................................................

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Required operating environment..................................................................................................................

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Supported firmware revisions ............................................................................................................

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Supported hardware........................................................................................................................

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Software installation....................................................................................................................

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Installation overview ................................................................................................................................

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Installing RPM packages on SUSE, RHEL, and OEL ......................................................................................

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Building the IO Accelerator driver from source ............................................................................................

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Building an RPM installation package ..............................................................................................

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Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to 3.x.x.........................................................................

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Upgrading procedure ....................................................................................................................

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Loading the IO Accelerator driver..............................................................................................................

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Controlling IO Accelerator driver loading .........................................................................................

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Using the init script ........................................................................................................................

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Mounting filesystems ......................................................................................................................

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Handling IO Accelerator driver unloads ...........................................................................................

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Setting the IO Accelerator driver options ....................................................................................................

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Using module parameters ...............................................................................................................

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One-time configuration...................................................................................................................

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Persistent configuration...................................................................................................................

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Upgrading the firmware ...........................................................................................................................

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Enabling PCIe power ...............................................................................................................................

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Using the device as swap.........................................................................................................................

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Using the Logical Volume Manager ...........................................................................................................

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Configuring RAID ....................................................................................................................................

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RAID 0.........................................................................................................................................

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RAID 1.........................................................................................................................................

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RAID 10.......................................................................................................................................

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Understanding Discard (TRIM) support .......................................................................................................

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Discard TRIM on Linux....................................................................................................................

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Setting up SNMP for Linux ...........................................................................................................

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SNMP details for Linux.............................................................................................................................

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Files and directories.................................................................................................................................

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SNMP master agent.................................................................................................................................

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Launching the SNMP master agent ..................................................................................................

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Configuring the SNMP master agent ................................................................................................

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SNMP agentX subagent ...........................................................................................................................

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Installing the SNMP subagent..........................................................................................................

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Running and configuring the SNMP subagent ...................................................................................

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