ASUS PIKE 2308 Manuale Utente

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Contents

About this guide ......................................................................................................... iv
PIKE 2308 specifications summary .......................................................................... vi

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

RAID 1 volume ............................................................................2-4

RAID 1E/10 volume.....................................................................2-8

RAID 0 volume ..........................................................................2-10

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

Viewing SAS topology ...............................................................2-19

Global Properties ......................................................................2-20

MegaRAID Storage Manager ...................................................................2-23
2.3.1

Hardware and Software Requirements .....................................2-23

Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware on

Microsoft Windows OS ..............................................................2-23

Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for Linux........2-27

Linux Error Messages ...............................................................2-28

Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software .......................2-29

MegaRAID Storage Manager Window ......................................2-31

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 5 .................................................3-9

SUSE Linux OS 11 .................................................................... 3-11

ASUS contact information .....................................................................................3-12