Adaptec CDP-00277-01-A Installation And User Manual

Also see for ASR-71605: User guide

Contents

7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System .....................................................................................................39Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................39Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................39Creating a Driver Disk for Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux ...............................................................40Creating a Driver Disk for VMware ESX 4.1 .....................................................................................40Installing with Windows ..............................................................................................................................41Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5 ...............................................................................................41Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux ........................................................................41Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support ................................................41Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support ....................42Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ...............................................................................................43Installing with Debian Linux.........................................................................................................................43Installing with Ubuntu Linux........................................................................................................................44Installing with Solaris...................................................................................................................................45Installing with FreeBSD ................................................................................................................................46Installing with VMware ESX 4.1 ...................................................................................................................46Installing with VMware ESXi 5.0 ..................................................................................................................478 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System .........................................................................................50Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................50Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................50Installing on Windows .................................................................................................................................50Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.................................................................................51Installing on Debian Linux............................................................................................................................51Installing on Ubuntu Linux...........................................................................................................................51Installing on Solaris .....................................................................................................................................52Installing on FreeBSD ...................................................................................................................................52Installing on VMware...................................................................................................................................539 Managing Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................54About maxView Storage Manager...............................................................................................................54Installing maxView Storage Manager..............................................................................................54About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility............................................................................54About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility.............................................................................................54About the Adaptec Flash Utility...................................................................................................................55Which Utility Should I Use?..........................................................................................................................5510 Solving Problems ................................................................................................................................................56Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................................................................................56Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................................................................56Silencing the Alarm .....................................................................................................................................56Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ...........................................................................................................56Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .....................................................................................57Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ..............................................................................57Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously ......................................................................................57Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array ................................................................................................57Multiple Failures in the Same Array ................................................................................................57Failed SSD in maxCache Container..................................................................................................58Resetting the Controller ..............................................................................................................................58Appendix A Introduction to SAS...............................................................................................................................59Terminology Used in This Appendix ............................................................................................................59What is SAS?.................................................................................................................................................59How Do SAS Devices Communicate?...........................................................................................................59What’s a Phy?...............................................................................................................................................60What’s a SAS Port?.......................................................................................................................................60What’s a SAS Address?.................................................................................................................................60What’s a SAS Connector?.............................................................................................................................61What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................................................................61How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? ........................................................................................................615Proprietary and Confidential to PMC-Sierra, Inc.Document No.: CDP-00277-01-A Rev. A, Issue:Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide