ASUS PIKE 1064E Manuel D’Utilisation

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Contents

Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1064E/1068E specifications summary............................................. vi

Product introduction

Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2

Package contents ......................................................................... 1-2

Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3

System requirements ................................................................... 1-3

Card installation ........................................................................... 1-4

RAID configuration

Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1

RAID definitions .............................................................. 2-2

Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 2-2

LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility ............................................. 2-3
2.2.1

Integrated Mirroring volume ............................................ 2-4

Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ........................... 2-8

Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 2-10

Managing Arrays ........................................................... 2-12

Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-17

Global Properties .......................................................... 2-18

Driver installation

RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1

Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2

Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4

Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11