LSI SATA 150 1.2.2Software Utility Support

Table 1.2	SATA 150 Board Characteristics (Cont.)

Feature		SATA 150-6	SATA 150-4	SATA 150-2

BIOS RAID Management Tools		MegaRAID CU,	MegaRAID CU,	MegaRAID CU
		WebBIOS CU	WebBIOS CU

Software RAID Management		MegaRAID Manager,	MegaRAID Manager,	MegaRAID
Tools		Power Console Plus	Power Console Plus	Configuration
				Console

Optional Battery Backup Unit		Yes (LSIBBU01)	No	No

1. Theoretical transfer rate.

1.2.2Software Utility Support

In addition, they support some combination of these configuration and control applications (for details, see Table 1.2):

•MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility (CU). Used to create arrays and hot spares, define and initialize logical drives, view properties of logical drives, controllers, and arrays, rebuild failed drives, and verify data redundancy in RAID 1, 5, 10, or 50 logical drives.

This is a BIOS-resident utility. Start the utility by pressing CTRL+M during system boot.

•WebBIOS Configuration Utility (CU). Offers the same feature set as the MegaRAID BIOS CU. This is an HTML-based,BIOS-resident utility. Start the utility by pressing CTRL+H during system boot.

•MegaRAID Manager. Offers the same feature set as the MegaRAID BIOS CU. This utility runs under the operating system.

•Power Console Plus tool. This is an object-oriented GUI utility that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network. Offers the same feature set as the MegaRAID BIOS CU, plus these RAID migration features that can be used while the system remains operational:

–Adding a drive to a RAID logical drive

–Converting from a RAID 0 configuration to a RAID 1 or 5 configuration by adding a physical drive

–Changing a Degraded redundant logical drive to an Optimal RAID 0 logical drive

1-8Introduction