DELL 5i/6i Array Card Quick Setup Graphics tutorial

Recently purchased the server to use the 6I array card, because it is the first contact is not very understand, here a brief introduction, basically see the picture are understand the full use of F2 operation selection can

Note: The 5I is the same as the 6I array card setup method

　　One, set Riad 0

1, into the array card settings, press ctrl+r into the array card BIOS settings

The following pile of English, is the beginning of the Battey, assistance end of this paragraph, is to prompt the array card is not connected to the battery, you can ignore, do not affect the normal use.

2. Array BIOS default interface

3. Press the F2 key on the Controller menu, as shown

Pop-up menu First, select Create new VD, creating a novel array

Displays the Create new VD screen. The cursor is located on the RAID levels (RAID level) option.

Press the key to display the RAID level.

Press the arrow keys to select the RAID level, and then press the key.

Press the key to move the cursor to the physical disk list.

Use the DOWN ARROW key to display a physical disk with high brightness and press SPACEBAR to select the disk.

If necessary, select a different disk.

Press the key to move the cursor to the basic settings box, and then set the size and name of the virtual disk.

　　It's the most important thing.

Press the key to move the cursor to "Advanced Settings" (Advanced setting). As shown in figure

Press the SPACEBAR to activate these settings so that you can make changes to them.

X will appear next to the Advanced settings (Advanced setting). These settings are magnetic stripe size and read policy. You can also select advanced options, such as forcing a cache policy to be write-back, initializing a virtual disk, and configuring a dedicated hot standby. The default values for these parameters are displayed when the window is displayed. You can accept or make changes to the default value (not recommended, and the default is OK).

Perform the following steps to select the virtual disk parameters:

Press the key to move the cursor to the parameter you want to change.

Press the arrow key to open the parameter and scroll down the settings list.

To change the size of the stripe element, press the key to display "stripe element size" (magnetic stripe element) in high brightness.

Press the key to display the magnetic stripe size list (8 KB, KB, KB, KB, and 128 KB), and then press the arrow keys to display an option in high brightness and press the key. default Recommended selection 64K

If necessary, press the key to move the cursor to "read Policy" (read policy) to make changes to it.

Press the key to display the option, either "Read Ahd" (read-only), "No read" (not read-only) or "adaptive" (adaptive), and then press the arrow key to display an option in high brightness and press the key. Recommended choice: Read AHD

Press the key to move the cursor to "write Policy" (write policy) to make changes to it.

Press the key to display the option, either "Write-through" or "Write-back" (write-back), and then press the arrow key to display an option in high brightness and press the key. Recommended choice: Write-back

Press the key to move the cursor to OK (OK).

　　Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the Force WB with no battery (force-write-back does not use the battery), and then press the <Enter> key. In the absence of batteries installed in the case, this must be selected on

If you are doing RAID1, you need to initialize the data. Press F2 to select Initlization.

　　Second, error repair

This array card is an enterprise-class advanced array card, powerful enough to import external array information---that is, if you move over an array of other array card groups, he may also be able to import and secure the data without loss. But these features, it can be confusing for people who don't use it because it's common for the incoming array to be unable to find the hard drive, or the hard drive is not working properly, and in the first interface of the array, the number of disks shown in PD count is normal for this case, use the following to resolve Pressing the F2 key on the Controller menu will have three options, as shown below

This time, if the third item, Foreign config is optional, select the third item, this time will let us choose whether to import external settings or clear, if it is clear external settings, select the confirmation, you can remove the foreign settings, if this time in the array still can't see the disk, Then reset it again with the second item if the third item is not optional, is gray, the use of the second, reset the array information, reset, if the third light, back to the previous section of the operation to do these two settings, are operational, there is a kind of into the array, Virtual disks into red State, This indicates that the array may be malfunctioning due to a disk failure, at which point F2 is pressed on the array, as shown below

When you see the disk as a offline state in the PD MGMT, you can use force online to repair the disk

　　dell5/i array card settings graphic description

DELL PERC 5i SAS RAID card, dual channel SAS RAID card, up to 8 SAS interface or SATA interface server hard drive, LSI Logic 1068 SAS control chip, IOP333 coprocessor, 512M ddrii REG-ECC Cache, With a cache battery, supports a variety of array modes: 0, 1, 5, 10, native Pci-e 8X interface, compatible PCI-E 16X slots

3GB/S 8-Port internal SAS RAID adapter

As the first market-driven 8-port serial scsi (SAS) RAID solution, 5/I provides advanced fault-tolerant performance for any combination of SAS drives, SATA II drives, or two drives. SAS 8408E, which optimizes raid performance with high-performance Intel I/O processors and increases bandwidth through the Pci-express host interface, provides an intelligent and robust raid solution. In addition, this adapter supports 256MB DDRII SDRAM for data caching and supports the smart Portable battery backup module (ITBBU), which saves cached data under a 72-hour full power outage. The portable caching module can even be moved to a new MegaRAID adapter, while preserving the full data.

Characteristics

8 Internal Sas/sata Ports

Two x4 SFF 8484 connectors

Full Duplex 3 GB/s throughput rate per port

Support for RAID0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60

Supports larger than 2TB arrays

Intel IOP333 I/O processor

Compliant with PCI Express 1.0a

2.5 GB/s per line

x8 line Bandwidth

256MB Ddrii 400MHZ SDRAM Smart Portable battery backup DIMM module

Advanced data integrity and recoverability, enhanced fault handling and reporting capabilities

Online capacity expansion (OCE)

Online RAID level upgrade (RLM)

Comprehensive management and configuration features

Full SAS Extended Support (32 hard drives supported)

The following is a description of the card's setup graphic:

Enter the Setup interface to display array management shortcuts +, firmware version, and disk

If you have this information:

The array card does not have a battery, battery is not charged well, battery is problematic.

　　Main interface Description:

When you press the key combination, the Virtual Disk Management menu screen is displayed by default. This screen displays the controller, virtual disk, physical disk, free space, hot backup, and other details in the form of an extensible tree directory similar to Microsoft Windows Explorer. The following figure:

Menu bar: Options for each main menu:

· (VD Mgmt) Menu: Virtual Disk Management (VM management)

· (PD Mgmt) Menu: Physical Disk Management (Physical Disk Management)

· (Ctrl Mgmt) Menu: Controller Management (Controller management)

Shortcut Area: Displays the menu keys that can be used to move between different screens of the BIOS Configuration Utility.

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