LSI 500 manual 4

Table of Contents, Continued
4	Features .................................................	27
	Hardware Requirements .................................................	28
	Configuration Features ...................................................	28
	Hardware Architecture Features .....................................	29
	Array Performance Features ...........................................	29
	RAID Management Features ..........................................	30
	Fault Tolerance Features.................................................	30
	Software Utilities............................................................	31
	Operating System Software Drivers................................	31
	MegaRAID Express 500 Specifications .........................	32
	PCI Bridge/CPU .............................................................	32
	Cache Memory................................................................	33
	MegaRAID BIOS ...........................................................	33
	Onboard Speaker ............................................................	33
	Serial Port .......................................................................	33
	SCSI Bus ........................................................................	34
	SCSI Connectors.............................................................	34
	SCSI Termination ...........................................................	34
	SCSI Firmware ...............................................................	34
	RAID Management.........................................................	35
	Fault-Tolerance Features ................................................	35
	Compatibility..................................................................	36
	Summary.........................................................................	36
5	Configuring MegaRAID Express 500 ...	37
	Configuring SCSI Physical Drives..................................	37
	Current Configuration.....................................................	38
	Logical Drive Configuration...........................................	38
	Physical Device Layout ..................................................	40
	Configuring Arrays .........................................................	42
	Configuration Strategies .................................................	43
	Assigning RAID Levels..................................................	45
	Configuring Logical Drives ............................................	45
	Optimizing Data Storage ................................................	46
	Planning the Array Configuration...................................	46
	Array Configuration Planner...........................................	47

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