Setting the Boot Controller..........................................................................................................................44
Creating an Array..........................................................................................................................................44
Creating an Array with the ARC Utility.............................................................................................44
Creating an Array with maxView Storage Manager.........................................................................45
Making Your Array Bootable........................................................................................................................47
7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System .....................................................................................................48
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................48
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................48
Creating a Driver Disk for Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux ...............................................................49
Creating a Driver Disk for VMware ESX 4.1 .....................................................................................49
Installing with Windows ..............................................................................................................................50
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5 ...............................................................................................50
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux ........................................................................50
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support ................................................50
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support ....................51
Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ...............................................................................................52
Installing with Debian Linux.........................................................................................................................52
Installing with Ubuntu Linux........................................................................................................................53
Installing with Solaris...................................................................................................................................54
Installing with FreeBSD ................................................................................................................................55
Installing with VMware ESX 4.1 ...................................................................................................................55
Installing with VMware ESXi 5.x ..................................................................................................................56
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System .........................................................................................59
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................59
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................59
Installing on Windows .................................................................................................................................59
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.................................................................................60
Installing on Debian Linux............................................................................................................................60
Installing on Ubuntu Linux...........................................................................................................................60
Installing on Solaris .....................................................................................................................................61
Installing on FreeBSD ...................................................................................................................................61
Installing on VMware...................................................................................................................................62
9 Managing Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................64
About maxView Storage Manager...............................................................................................................64
Installing maxView Storage Manager..............................................................................................64
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration Utility............................................................................64
About the Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility.............................................................................................64
About the Adaptec Flash Utility...................................................................................................................65
Which Utility Should I Use?..........................................................................................................................65
10 Solving Problems ................................................................................................................................................66
Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................................................................................66
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................................................................66
Silencing the Alarm .....................................................................................................................................66
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ...........................................................................................................66
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .....................................................................................67
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ..............................................................................67
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously ......................................................................................67
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array ................................................................................................67
Multiple Failures in the Same Array ................................................................................................67
Failed SSD in maxCache Container..................................................................................................68
Resetting the Controller ..............................................................................................................................68
Appendix A Introduction to SAS...............................................................................................................................69
Terminology Used in This Appendix ............................................................................................................69
What is SAS?.................................................................................................................................................69
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?...........................................................................................................69
What’s a Phy?...............................................................................................................................................70
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Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
