1. Adaptec RAID Readme
Adaptec RAID Readme
Adaptec RAID Readme
2. maxView Storage Manager Readme
README
README
3. Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
Limited 3-Year Hardware Warranty
Regulatory Compliance Statements
About This Guide
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
How to Find More Information
Kit Contents and System Requirements
Kit Contents
System Requirements
About Your RAID Controller
Standard RAID Controller Features
Array-level Features
Advanced Data Protection Suite
Adding a Flash Backup Module
Upgrading the Controller Firmware
About the Adaptec RAID 6405
About the Adaptec RAID 6445
About the Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q
About the Adaptec RAID 6405E
About the Adaptec RAID 6805E/6805E R5
About the Adaptec RAID 6405T
About the Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ
About the Adaptec RAID 7805/7805Q
About the Adaptec RAID 71605/71605Q
About the Adaptec RAID 71605E
About the Adaptec RAID 71685
About the Adaptec RAID 72405
About the Adaptec RAID 78165
About the Adaptec RAID 8405
About the Adaptec RAID 8805
About the Adaptec RAID 8885/8885Q
About the Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
Getting Started
Choosing a RAID Level
Selecting Disk Drives and Cables
Disk Drives
Cables
Replacing the Full-Height Bracket with a Low-Profile Bracket
Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Installing with an Operating System
Installing on an Existing Operating System
Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
Before You Begin
Installing the Controller
Installing a RAID Controller without Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers
Connecting Drives Directly to the Controller
Connecting Drives to a System Backplane
Connecting Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Connecting External Devices
Next Steps
Creating a Bootable Array
Setting the Boot Controller
Creating an Array
Creating an Array with the ARC Utility
Creating an Array with maxView Storage Manager
Making Your Array Bootable
Installing the Driver and an Operating System
Before You Begin
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing with Windows
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support
Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing with Debian Linux
Installing with Ubuntu Linux
Installing with Solaris
Installing with FreeBSD
Installing with VMware ESX 4.1
Installing with VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing with Citrix XenServer
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian Linux
Installing on Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on FreeBSD
Installing on VMware
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Managing Your Storage Space
About maxView Storage Manager
Installing maxView Storage Manager
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec
RAID Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
Which Utility Should I Use?
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist
Monitoring Disk Drives Status
Silencing the Alarm
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
Multiple Failures in the Same Array
Failed SSD in maxCache Container
Resetting the Controller
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Appendix
What is SAS?
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
What’s a Phy?
What’s a SAS Port?
What’s a SAS Address?
What’s a SAS Connector?
What do SAS Cables Look Like?
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS?
What are the SAS Connection Options?
Direct-attach Connections
Backplane Connections
SAS Expander Connections
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?
Understanding RAID
Understanding Drive Segments
Non-redundant Arrays (RAID 0)
RAID 1 Arrays
RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays
RAID 10 Arrays
RAID 5 Arrays
RAID 5EE Arrays
RAID 50 Arrays
RAID 6 Arrays
RAID 60 Arrays
Comparing RAID Levels
Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Introduction to the ARC Utility
Ctrl-A or uEFI/HII?
Running the ARC Utility
Using the ARC Utility to Create and Manage Arrays
Creating a New Array
Managing Existing Arrays
Creating Bootable Arrays
Modifying Power Management Settings
Modifying Cache Settings
Initializing Disk Drives
Rescanning Disk Drives
Secure Erasing Disk Drives
Stopping a Secure Erase
Uninitializing Disk Drives
Managing Global Hot Spares
Creating and Managing JBODs
Creating a New JBOD
Managing Existing JBODs
Converting a JBOD Into a Simple Volume
Managing the maxCache Pool
Using the ARC Utility to Modify Controller Settings
Opening the Controller Settings Tool
Applying Changes and Exiting
Modifying Your Controller’s Configuration
General Controller Settings
Power Management Settings
Preserving the Controller Cache
Enabling and Disabling Controller Cache Preservation
Clearing the Controller Cache
Checking the Cache Preservation Status
Checking Backup Unit Status
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
Locating Disk Drives
Identifying Disk Drives
Setting the Drive Write-Cache Policy
Updating the Controller Firmware
Updating the Controller CPLD
Creating a Support Archive
Viewing the Event Log
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
System Requirements
Compatibility Notes
Before You Begin
Obtaining the Firmware
Creating the Firmware Update Disk
Running the Menu-based AFU
Running the AFU from the Command Line
AFU Commands
List
Save
Update
Verify
Version
Help
Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line
Controller LED, I2C, and Alarm Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 6405/6445 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405E LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805E/6805E R5 LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405T LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 7805/7805Q/71605/71605Q/71605E Alarm Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 71685/72405/78165 Alarm Connector Specification
Safety Information
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
Technical Specifications
Environmental Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Current Requirements
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
Limited 3-Year Hardware Warranty
Regulatory Compliance Statements
About This Guide
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
How to Find More Information
Kit Contents and System Requirements
Kit Contents
System Requirements
About Your RAID Controller
Standard RAID Controller Features
Array-level Features
Advanced Data Protection Suite
Adding a Flash Backup Module
Upgrading the Controller Firmware
About the Adaptec RAID 6405
About the Adaptec RAID 6445
About the Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q
About the Adaptec RAID 6405E
About the Adaptec RAID 6805E/6805E R5
About the Adaptec RAID 6405T
About the Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ
About the Adaptec RAID 7805/7805Q
About the Adaptec RAID 71605/71605Q
About the Adaptec RAID 71605E
About the Adaptec RAID 71685
About the Adaptec RAID 72405
About the Adaptec RAID 78165
About the Adaptec RAID 8405
About the Adaptec RAID 8805
About the Adaptec RAID 8885/8885Q
About the Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
Getting Started
Choosing a RAID Level
Selecting Disk Drives and Cables
Disk Drives
Cables
Replacing the Full-Height Bracket with a Low-Profile Bracket
Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Installing with an Operating System
Installing on an Existing Operating System
Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
Before You Begin
Installing the Controller
Installing a RAID Controller without Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Installing a RAID Controller with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection
Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers
Connecting Drives Directly to the Controller
Connecting Drives to a System Backplane
Connecting Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Connecting External Devices
Next Steps
Creating a Bootable Array
Setting the Boot Controller
Creating an Array
Creating an Array with the ARC Utility
Creating an Array with maxView Storage Manager
Making Your Array Bootable
Installing the Driver and an Operating System
Before You Begin
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing with Windows
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support
Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing with Debian Linux
Installing with Ubuntu Linux
Installing with Solaris
Installing with FreeBSD
Installing with VMware ESX 4.1
Installing with VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing with Citrix XenServer
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian Linux
Installing on Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on FreeBSD
Installing on VMware
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Managing Your Storage Space
About maxView Storage Manager
Installing maxView Storage Manager
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec
RAID Configuration Utility
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
Which Utility Should I Use?
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist
Monitoring Disk Drives Status
Silencing the Alarm
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
Multiple Failures in the Same Array
Failed SSD in maxCache Container
Resetting the Controller
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Appendix
What is SAS?
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
What’s a Phy?
What’s a SAS Port?
What’s a SAS Address?
What’s a SAS Connector?
What do SAS Cables Look Like?
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS?
What are the SAS Connection Options?
Direct-attach Connections
Backplane Connections
SAS Expander Connections
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?
Understanding RAID
Understanding Drive Segments
Non-redundant Arrays (RAID 0)
RAID 1 Arrays
RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays
RAID 10 Arrays
RAID 5 Arrays
RAID 5EE Arrays
RAID 50 Arrays
RAID 6 Arrays
RAID 60 Arrays
Comparing RAID Levels
Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Introduction to the ARC Utility
Ctrl-A or uEFI/HII?
Running the ARC Utility
Using the ARC Utility to Create and Manage Arrays
Creating a New Array
Managing Existing Arrays
Creating Bootable Arrays
Modifying Power Management Settings
Modifying Cache Settings
Initializing Disk Drives
Rescanning Disk Drives
Secure Erasing Disk Drives
Stopping a Secure Erase
Uninitializing Disk Drives
Managing Global Hot Spares
Creating and Managing JBODs
Creating a New JBOD
Managing Existing JBODs
Converting a JBOD Into a Simple Volume
Managing the maxCache Pool
Using the ARC Utility to Modify Controller Settings
Opening the Controller Settings Tool
Applying Changes and Exiting
Modifying Your Controller’s Configuration
General Controller Settings
Power Management Settings
Preserving the Controller Cache
Enabling and Disabling Controller Cache Preservation
Clearing the Controller Cache
Checking the Cache Preservation Status
Checking Backup Unit Status
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
Locating Disk Drives
Identifying Disk Drives
Setting the Drive Write-Cache Policy
Updating the Controller Firmware
Updating the Controller CPLD
Creating a Support Archive
Viewing the Event Log
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
System Requirements
Compatibility Notes
Before You Begin
Obtaining the Firmware
Creating the Firmware Update Disk
Running the Menu-based AFU
Running the AFU from the Command Line
AFU Commands
List
Save
Update
Verify
Version
Help
Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line
Controller LED, I2C, and Alarm Connector Quick Reference
Adaptec RAID 6405/6445 LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805/6805Q LED and I2C Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405E LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805E/6805E R5 LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6405T LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 6805T/6805TQ LED Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 7805/7805Q/71605/71605Q/71605E Alarm Connector Specification
Adaptec RAID 71685/72405/78165 Alarm Connector Specification
Safety Information
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
Technical Specifications
Environmental Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Current Requirements
4. maxView Storage Manager User's Guide
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
Software License Agreement
About this Guide
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
How to Find More Information
Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
Getting Started
About maxView Storage Manager
About the maxView Storage Manager Agent
About the maxView Storage Manager Web Server
About the maxView Storage Manager CIM Server
System Requirements
Browser Support
Typical Storage Space Configurations
A Simple Storage Space
An Advanced Storage Space
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space
Installing maxView Storage Manager
Before You Begin the Installation
Gather Installation Information
Download the Installation Packages
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on VMware ESX 4.1
Installing on VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Installing on a Guest Operating System
Installing on a Windows Guest OS
Installing on a Linux Guest OS
Running maxView Storage Manager from a Bootable USB Image
Uninstalling maxView Storage Manager
Exploring maxView Storage Manager
Starting maxView Storage Manager and Logging In
Working in maxView Storage Manager
Overview of the Main Window
The Enterprise View
What do the Enterprise View Icons Mean?
The Ribbon
The Storage Dashboard
Checking System Status from the Main Window
Revealing More Device Information
Getting Help
Logging Out of maxView Storage Manager
Building Your Storage Space
Overview
Choosing a Management System
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?
Logging in on the Local System
Starting maxView Storage Manager on Remote Systems
Starting the Agent Only
Windows
Linux or VMware
Solaris
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System
Creating Logical Drives
Express Configuration
Custom Configuration
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space
Protecting Your Data
Creating and Managing Hot Spares
Hot Spare Limitations
Global Spare or Dedicated Spare?
Designating a Global Hot Spare
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare
Deleting a Global Hot Spare
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare
Enabling Copyback
Enabling Automatic Failover
Modifying Your Storage Space
Understanding Logical Drives
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive
Fine-tuning Logical Drives
Renaming a Logical Drive
Changing the Read Cache Setting
Changing the Write Cache Setting
Changing the Stripe Size
Changing the Initialize Method
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance
Verifying Logical Drives
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive
Erasing a Logical Drive
Deleting a Logical Drive
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive
Setting Power Management Options for a Controller
Disabling Power Management for a Logical Drive
Optimizing the Structure of Your Storage Space
Adding Caching and Tiering to Your Storage Space
About maxCache Plus
Tiers, Virtual Pools, and Virtual Volumes
maxCache vs. maxCache Plus
Creating and Managing Virtual Pools
Creating a Virtual Pool
Modifying a Virtual Pool
Deleting a Virtual Pool
Creating and Managing Virtual Volumes
Creating a Tiered Volume
Creating a Cached Volume or Cached LD Volume
Modifying a Virtual Volume
Deleting a Virtual Volume
Adding maxCache to Local Storage
Creating a maxCache Container
Changing maxCache Settings for a Logical Drive
Changing maxCache Settings for a Controller
Setting the maxCache Flush and Fetch Rate
Verifying and Fixing the maxCache Container
Deleting the maxCache Container
Using maxCache with Adaptec Series 6Q Controllers
Analyzing maxCache Performance
Working with Scheduled Tasks
Scheduling a Task
Monitoring Tasks
What if a Task Misses its Start Time?
Modifying a Task
Deleting a Task
Maintaining Physical Devices
Viewing Device Properties
Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
Locating a Disk Drive
Locating Physical Disks in a Logical Drive
Locating SSDs in the maxCache Container
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
Setting a Disk Drive to ‘Failed’
Initializing, Uninitializing, and Erasing Disk Drives
Initializing Disk Drives
Erasing Disk Drives
Unnitializing Disk Drives
Verifying and Fixing a Disk Drive
Configuring the Physical Drive Write Cache Policy
Configuring the Global Physical Drive Write Cache Policy
Configuring the Write Cache Policy for an Individual Drive
Working with Controllers
Silencing a Controller Alarm
Disabling a Controller Alarm
Rescanning a Controller
Setting a Controller's Default Task Priority
Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller
Setting the Connection Speed for a Controller
Working with System Alarms
Updating Controller and Disk Drive Firmware
Before You Begin
Updating the Controller Firmware
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware
Monitoring Status and Activity
Monitoring Options
Checking Status from the Main Window
Viewing Activity Status in the Event Log
What Do the Event Status Icons Mean?
Viewing Task Status in the Task Log
Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard
Monitoring Enclosure Status
Viewing SMART Statistics
Viewing Storage Space Usage in Chart View
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity
Setting Up Email Notifications
Sending a Test Message
Modifying or Removing an Email Recipient
Modifying Email Server Settings
Disabling Email Notifications
Broadcasting Alerts About Status and Activity
Monitoring Advanced Statistics about Activity in Your Storage Space
Setting up Statistics Logging
Viewing Advanced Statistics
Resetting the Statistics Counters
Changing an Operating System's Event Log Setting
Managing Your Storage Space
Deploying Servers
Creating a Server Template File
Duplicating the Server Template
Managing Remote Systems
Adding Remote Systems with the Wizard
Manually Adding a Remote System
Removing a Remote System
Changing the Auto-Discovery Settings
Clearing the Controller Configuration
Changing the Agent Base Port Setting
Solving Problems
General Troubleshooting Tips
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive
Multiple Disk Drive Failures in the Same Logical Drive
Rebuilding Logical Drives
Creating a Support Archive File
Silent Installation on Windows and Linux
Completing a Silent Installation
Windows Silent Installation
Linux Silent Installation
Switches, Properties, and Values
Example Command Line Installations
Selecting the Best RAID Level
Comparing RAID Levels
Understanding Drive Segments
Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
RAID 1 Logical Drives
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives
RAID 10 Logical Drives
RAID 5 Logical Drives
RAID 5EE Logical Drives
RAID 50 Logical Drive
RAID 6 Logical Drives
RAID 60 Logical Drives
Virtual Volume Advanced Statistics
Using the maxConf Command Line Utility
Installing maxConf
Starting the Command Line Utility
maxConf Commands
maxconf create
maxconf delete
maxconf getconfig
maxconf getstats
maxconf modify
Icons At-a-Glance
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
Software License Agreement
About this Guide
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
How to Find More Information
Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
Getting Started
About maxView Storage Manager
About the maxView Storage Manager Agent
About the maxView Storage Manager Web Server
About the maxView Storage Manager CIM Server
System Requirements
Browser Support
Typical Storage Space Configurations
A Simple Storage Space
An Advanced Storage Space
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space
Installing maxView Storage Manager
Before You Begin the Installation
Gather Installation Information
Download the Installation Packages
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on VMware ESX 4.1
Installing on VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Installing on a Guest Operating System
Installing on a Windows Guest OS
Installing on a Linux Guest OS
Running maxView Storage Manager from a Bootable USB Image
Uninstalling maxView Storage Manager
Exploring maxView Storage Manager
Starting maxView Storage Manager and Logging In
Working in maxView Storage Manager
Overview of the Main Window
The Enterprise View
What do the Enterprise View Icons Mean?
The Ribbon
The Storage Dashboard
Checking System Status from the Main Window
Revealing More Device Information
Getting Help
Logging Out of maxView Storage Manager
Building Your Storage Space
Overview
Choosing a Management System
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?
Logging in on the Local System
Starting maxView Storage Manager on Remote Systems
Starting the Agent Only
Windows
Linux or VMware
Solaris
Logging into Remote Systems from the Local System
Creating Logical Drives
Express Configuration
Custom Configuration
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives
Creating Logical Drives on Other Systems in Your Storage Space
Protecting Your Data
Creating and Managing Hot Spares
Hot Spare Limitations
Global Spare or Dedicated Spare?
Designating a Global Hot Spare
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare or Pool Hot Spare
Deleting a Global Hot Spare
Removing or Deleting a Dedicated Hot Spare
Enabling Copyback
Enabling Automatic Failover
Modifying Your Storage Space
Understanding Logical Drives
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Segments
Creating a Hybrid RAID Logical Drive
Fine-tuning Logical Drives
Renaming a Logical Drive
Changing the Read Cache Setting
Changing the Write Cache Setting
Changing the Stripe Size
Changing the Initialize Method
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance
Verifying Logical Drives
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive
Erasing a Logical Drive
Deleting a Logical Drive
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive
Setting Power Management Options for a Controller
Disabling Power Management for a Logical Drive
Optimizing the Structure of Your Storage Space
Adding Caching and Tiering to Your Storage Space
About maxCache Plus
Tiers, Virtual Pools, and Virtual Volumes
maxCache vs. maxCache Plus
Creating and Managing Virtual Pools
Creating a Virtual Pool
Modifying a Virtual Pool
Deleting a Virtual Pool
Creating and Managing Virtual Volumes
Creating a Tiered Volume
Creating a Cached Volume or Cached LD Volume
Modifying a Virtual Volume
Deleting a Virtual Volume
Adding maxCache to Local Storage
Creating a maxCache Container
Changing maxCache Settings for a Logical Drive
Changing maxCache Settings for a Controller
Setting the maxCache Flush and Fetch Rate
Verifying and Fixing the maxCache Container
Deleting the maxCache Container
Using maxCache with Adaptec Series 6Q Controllers
Analyzing maxCache Performance
Working with Scheduled Tasks
Scheduling a Task
Monitoring Tasks
What if a Task Misses its Start Time?
Modifying a Task
Deleting a Task
Maintaining Physical Devices
Viewing Device Properties
Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
Locating a Disk Drive
Locating Physical Disks in a Logical Drive
Locating SSDs in the maxCache Container
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
Setting a Disk Drive to ‘Failed’
Initializing, Uninitializing, and Erasing Disk Drives
Initializing Disk Drives
Erasing Disk Drives
Unnitializing Disk Drives
Verifying and Fixing a Disk Drive
Configuring the Physical Drive Write Cache Policy
Configuring the Global Physical Drive Write Cache Policy
Configuring the Write Cache Policy for an Individual Drive
Working with Controllers
Silencing a Controller Alarm
Disabling a Controller Alarm
Rescanning a Controller
Setting a Controller's Default Task Priority
Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller
Setting the Connection Speed for a Controller
Working with System Alarms
Updating Controller and Disk Drive Firmware
Before You Begin
Updating the Controller Firmware
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware
Monitoring Status and Activity
Monitoring Options
Checking Status from the Main Window
Viewing Activity Status in the Event Log
What Do the Event Status Icons Mean?
Viewing Task Status in the Task Log
Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard
Monitoring Enclosure Status
Viewing SMART Statistics
Viewing Storage Space Usage in Chart View
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity
Setting Up Email Notifications
Sending a Test Message
Modifying or Removing an Email Recipient
Modifying Email Server Settings
Disabling Email Notifications
Broadcasting Alerts About Status and Activity
Monitoring Advanced Statistics about Activity in Your Storage Space
Setting up Statistics Logging
Viewing Advanced Statistics
Resetting the Statistics Counters
Changing an Operating System's Event Log Setting
Managing Your Storage Space
Deploying Servers
Creating a Server Template File
Duplicating the Server Template
Managing Remote Systems
Adding Remote Systems with the Wizard
Manually Adding a Remote System
Removing a Remote System
Changing the Auto-Discovery Settings
Clearing the Controller Configuration
Changing the Agent Base Port Setting
Solving Problems
General Troubleshooting Tips
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive
Multiple Disk Drive Failures in the Same Logical Drive
Rebuilding Logical Drives
Creating a Support Archive File
Silent Installation on Windows and Linux
Completing a Silent Installation
Windows Silent Installation
Linux Silent Installation
Switches, Properties, and Values
Example Command Line Installations
Selecting the Best RAID Level
Comparing RAID Levels
Understanding Drive Segments
Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
RAID 1 Logical Drives
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives
RAID 10 Logical Drives
RAID 5 Logical Drives
RAID 5EE Logical Drives
RAID 50 Logical Drive
RAID 6 Logical Drives
RAID 60 Logical Drives
Virtual Volume Advanced Statistics
Using the maxConf Command Line Utility
Installing maxConf
Starting the Command Line Utility
maxConf Commands
maxconf create
maxconf delete
maxconf getconfig
maxconf getstats
maxconf modify
Icons At-a-Glance
5. Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide
Adaptec by PMC Product Support
Software License Agreement
Getting Started with the Command Line Utility
Installing the Command Line Utility
Downloading the Installation Packages
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on FreeBSD
Installing on VMware ESX 4.1
Installing on VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Installing on a Guest Operating System
Installing on a Windows Guest OS
Installing on a Linux Guest OS
Starting the Command Line Utility
Using the Command Line Utility
ARCCONF Commands
arcconf atapassword
arcconf consistencycheck
arcconf copyback
arcconf create
arcconf delete
arcconf driverupdate
arcconf expanderlist
arcconf failover
arcconf getconfig
arcconf getlogs
arcconf getperform
arcconf getsmartstats
arcconf getstatus
arcconf getversion
arcconf identify
arcconf imageupdate
arcconf key
arcconf modify
arcconf phyerrorlog
arcconf playconfig
arcconf preservecache
arcconf rescan
arcconf resetstatisticscounters
arcconf romupdate
arcconf saveconfig
arcconf savesupportarchive
arcconf setalarm
arcconf setbiosparams
arcconf setcache
arcconf setconfig
arcconf setcontrollermode
arcconf setmaxcache
arcconf setname
arcconf setncq
arcconf setperform
arcconf setphy
arcconf setpower
arcconf setpriority
arcconf setstate
arcconf setstatsdatacollection
arcconf setvmcredential
arcconf task
arcconf uninit
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Getting Started with the Command Line Utility
Installing the Command Line Utility
Downloading the Installation Packages
Installing on Windows
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Installing on FreeBSD
Installing on VMware ESX 4.1
Installing on VMware ESXi 5.x
Installing on Citrix XenServer
Installing on a Guest Operating System
Installing on a Windows Guest OS
Installing on a Linux Guest OS
Starting the Command Line Utility
Using the Command Line Utility
ARCCONF Commands
arcconf atapassword
arcconf consistencycheck
arcconf copyback
arcconf create
arcconf delete
arcconf driverupdate
arcconf expanderlist
arcconf failover
arcconf getconfig
arcconf getlogs
arcconf getperform
arcconf getsmartstats
arcconf getstatus
arcconf getversion
arcconf identify
arcconf imageupdate
arcconf key
arcconf modify
arcconf phyerrorlog
arcconf playconfig
arcconf preservecache
arcconf rescan
arcconf resetstatisticscounters
arcconf romupdate
arcconf saveconfig
arcconf savesupportarchive
arcconf setalarm
arcconf setbiosparams
arcconf setcache
arcconf setconfig
arcconf setcontrollermode
arcconf setmaxcache
arcconf setname
arcconf setncq
arcconf setperform
arcconf setphy
arcconf setpower
arcconf setpriority
arcconf setstate
arcconf setstatsdatacollection
arcconf setvmcredential
arcconf task
arcconf uninit
6. Adaptec Event Monitor User's Guide
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Overview
Installing and Uninstalling Adaptec Event Monitor
System Requirements
Using Adaptec Event Monitor with a Firewall
Installing on Windows
Performing a Silent Windows Installation
Windows Command Line Properties and Examples
Installing on Red Hat Linux and Cent OS
Installing on Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux
Installing on FreeBSD
Uninstalling Adaptec Event Monitor
Stopping and Starting the Adaptec Event Monitor Service
Configuring Adaptec Event Monitor
Email Notifications in Linux Event Monitor
Adaptec Event Monitor Log Files
Frequently Asked Questions
More Information
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Software License Agreement
Overview
Installing and Uninstalling Adaptec Event Monitor
System Requirements
Using Adaptec Event Monitor with a Firewall
Installing on Windows
Performing a Silent Windows Installation
Windows Command Line Properties and Examples
Installing on Red Hat Linux and Cent OS
Installing on Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux
Installing on FreeBSD
Uninstalling Adaptec Event Monitor
Stopping and Starting the Adaptec Event Monitor Service
Configuring Adaptec Event Monitor
Email Notifications in Linux Event Monitor
Adaptec Event Monitor Log Files
Frequently Asked Questions
More Information