3ware® SAS/SATA RAIDSoftware User Guide Addendumfor OpenSolaris™Supports the 9690SA and 9650SE ModelsPN 720-0190-00February 2009

3Ware OpenSolaris User Manual

about this user guide

Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller

System Requirements

Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels

RAID Concepts

Available RAID Configurations

Determining What RAID Level to Use

ware Tools for Configuration and Management

Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller

Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM

Specifying a Hot Spare

Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence

Chapter 4. Driver Installation

Driver Installation Under Windows

Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette

Installing the Driver on a System that Boots from a Different Device

Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Windows

Driver Installation Under Linux

Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers

Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5

different device

Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux

Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux

Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers

Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction

Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility

Working in the 3BM Screens

Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings

Displaying Controller Information

Chapter 6. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction

Browser Requirements for 3DM

Installing 3DM on a Microsoft Windows system

Uninstalling 3DM under Microsoft Windows

Uninstalling 3DM under Linux or FreeBSD

Logging In to the 3DM Web Application

Starting the 3DM Daemon under Linux and FreeBSD

Starting the 3DM Process under Microsoft Windows

Working with the 3DM Screens

DM Menus

Viewing Information About Different Controllers

Setting Up 3DM Preferences

Setting and Changing 3DM Passwords

Enabling and Disabling Remote Access

Setting the Incoming Port

Chapter 7. Configuring Your Controller

About Controller Policies

Viewing Controller Policies

Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy

Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support

Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving

Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up

Exporting JBOD Disks

Chapter 8. Configuring Units

Configuration Options When Creating a Unit

Creating a Unit through 3DM

Creating a Unit through 3BM

Ordering Units in 3BM

Partitioning, Formatting, and Mounting Units

Creating a Hot Spare

Specifying a Hot Spare through 3DM

Naming a Unit

Setting Unit Policies

Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache

Setting Auto Verify for a Unit

Setting Continue on Source Error During Rebuild

Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit

Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit

Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating

RAID Level Migration (RLM) Overview

Changing RAID Level

Expanding Unit Capacity

Informing the Operating System of Changed Configuration

Deleting a Unit

Deleting a Unit through 3DM

Deleting a Unit through 3BM

Removing a Unit

Removing a Unit Through 3DM

Removing a Unit Through 3BM

Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another

Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller

Moving Units from a 9500S to a 9550SX, 9590SE, or 9650SE Controller

Adding a Drive

Removing a Drive

Rescanning the Controller

Chapter 9. Maintaining Units

Enclosure LED Status Indicators

Drive Statuses

About Inoperable Units

Using the Alert Utility Under Windows

Downloading an Error Log

Background Tasks

About Initialization

About Verification

Starting a Verify Manually

3WARE 9650SE

user guide

Highlights of the 9.5.1 Release

Chapter 1. Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller

drive requirements

operating system

Using Drive Capacity Efficiently

Support for Over 2 Terabytes

Making Drives Visible to the Operating System

Installing the 3ware Driver on a Windows System that Boots from a Different Device

Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core

Driver Installation Under FreeBSD

Creating A FreeBSD Driver Diskette

ware RAID Controller

Device

Driver Installation Under VMware ESX 3.x Server

RAID controller

Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction

Adjusting BIOS Option Settings

Displaying Information About the Controller and Related Devices

Getting Help While Using 3BM

Installing 3DM

Managing the 3DM 2 Daemon under Linux, VMware, and FreeBSD

Viewing 3DM Remotely Using a Web Browser

DM Screens and What They're Used For

Managing E-mail Event Notification

Configuring the VMware Firewall to Allow Email Notification

Setting the Frequency of Page Refreshes

Viewing Information About a Phy

Changing the Phy Link Speed

Specifying a Hot Spare through 3BM

Enabling or Disabling Auto Verify for a Unit

Setting Overwrite ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding)

setting the storsave profile through 3dm

Rapid RAID Recovery

Moving Units from an Earlier 9000 Series to a 9650SE or 9690SA Controller

Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller

Viewing a List of Drives

Enclosure Drive LED Status Indicators

raid controller

About this CLI Guide

Chapter 1. Introduction to the 3ware Command Line Interface

Supported Operating Systems

Installing the 3ware CLI

Installing the 3ware CLI on Linux and FreeBSD

Working with 3ware CLI

Using a single command with output

Outputting the CLI to a Text File

Understanding RAID Levels and Concepts

determining what raid level to use

Shell Object Commands

focus Object

show

show ver

show verify

show selftest

Controller Object Commands

cx show autocarve

group=<3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12>] [nocache] [autoverify] [noqpolicy][ignoreECC name=string] [storsave=<protect|balance|perform>]

cx show rebuild

cx show verify

cx show selftest

cx set rebuild=enable|disable|1..5

cx set verify=enable|disable|1..5

cx set exportjbod=on|off

cx set autocarve=on|off

cx set autorebuild=on|off

cx start mediascan

Unit Object Commands

cx/ux remove [noscan] [quiet]

cx/ux set autoverify=on|off

cx/ux set identify=on|off

cx/ux set qpolicy=on|off

cx/ux migrate type=RaidType [disk=p:-p group=3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12] [stripe=Stripe] [noscan] [nocache] [autoverify]


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