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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 1 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM
Dell™ PERC 6/i, PERC 6/E and CERC 6/i
User’s Guide
Model UCP-60 , UCP-61, and UCC-60
www.dell.com | support.dell.com
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 2 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Notes, Notices, and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your system. NOTICE: A NOTICE warns against either potential damage to hardware or of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. NOTE: Refer to the Product Information Guide that came with your system for complete information ab
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 3 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Contents A CAUTION: Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . 11 SAFETY: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System . . . . . . 12 Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . 12 SAFETY: Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Scope of the User’s Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 PERC 6 and
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 4 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Initializing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Full Inititialization of Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . 26 Fast Inititialization of Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . 26 Consistency Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Com
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 5 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Redundant Path With Load Balancing Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Patrol Read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Patrol Read Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Patrol Read Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3 Installaing and Configuring Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Insta
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 6 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM 4 Installing the Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Installing Windows Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating the Driver Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Pre-Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Installing the Driver During a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Operating System Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Installing the Driver During a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Installat
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 7 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Installing NetWare Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Installing the NetWare Driver in a New NetWare System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Installing or Updating the NetWare Driver in an Existing NetWare System . . . . . . . 76 5 Configuring and Managing RAID . . . . . . . 77 Dell OpenManage Storage Management . . . . . . . . 77 Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 RAID Configuration Functions. . .
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 8 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Physical Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Setting LED Blinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Creating Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares. . . . 105 Replacing an Online Physical Disk . . . . . . . . 106 Stopping Background Initialization. . . . . . . . 107 Performing a Manual Rebuild of an Individual Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Controller Mana
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 9 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Linux Operating System Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Controller LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Drive Carrier LED Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 B Regulatory Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 C Corporate Contact Details (Taiwan Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Contents 9
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 10 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM 10 Contents
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 11 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM CAUTION: Safety Instructions Use the following safety guidelines to help ensure your own personal safety and to help protect your system and working environment from potential damage. CAUTION: There is a danger of a new battery exploding if it is incorrectly installed. Replace the battery only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer. Refer to "SAFETY: Battery Disposal" on page 13. NOTE: Refer to the
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 12 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System Before you remove the system covers, perform the following steps in the sequence indicated. CAUTION: Except as expressly otherwise instructed in Dell documentation, only trained service technicians are authorized to remove the system cover and access any of the components inside the system. NOTICE: To help avoid possible damage to the system board, wait 5 seconds after turning off the
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 13 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM You can also take the following steps to prevent damage from electrostatic discharge: � When unpacking a static-sensitive component fr om its shipping carton, do not remove the component from the antistatic packing material until you are ready to install the component. Just before unwrapping the antistatic package, be sure to discharge static electricity from your body. � When transporting a sensitive component, fir st place it
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 14 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM 14 SAFETY: General
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 15 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 6 family of controllers and the Dell Cost-Effective RAID Controller (CERC) 6/i offer redundant array of independent disks (RAID) control capabilities. The PERC 6 and CERC 6/i Serial Attached SCSI(SAS) RAID controllers support Dell-qualified SAS and SATA devices. The controllers are designed to provide reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsyst
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 16 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Each controller supports up to 64 virtual disks. NOTE: The number of virtual disks supported by the PERC 6/i and the CERC 6/i cards is limited by the configuration supported by the system. PCI Architecture PERC 6 controllers support a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI-E) x8 host interface. CERC 6/i Modular controller supports a PCI-E x4 host. PCI-E is a high-performance input/output (I/O) bus architecture designe
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 17 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM RAID Description RAID is a group of independent physical disks that provides high performance by increasing the number of drives used for saving and accessing data. A RAID disk subsystem improves I/O performance and data availability. The physical disk group appears to the host system either as a single storage unit or multiple logical units. Data throughput improves because several disks are accessed simultaneously. RAID sys
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 18 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM RAID Terminology Disk Striping Disk striping allows you to write data across multiple physical disks instead of just one physical disk. Disk striping involves partitioning each physical disk storage space into stripes of the following sizes: 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, 128 KB, 256KB, 512KB, and 1024KB. These stripes are interleaved in a repeated sequential manner. The part of the stripe on a single physical disk is called a st
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 19 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Disk mirroring provides 100 percent redundancy, but is expensive because each physical disk in the system must be duplicated. Figure 2-2 shows an example of disk mirroring. NOTE: Mirrored physical disks improve read performance by read load balance. Figure 2-2. Example of Disk Mirroring (RAID 1) Stripe element 1 Stripe element 1 Duplicated Stripe element 2 Stripe element 2 Duplicated Stripe element 3 Stripe element 3 Duplicated
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Dell_PERC6.1_UG.book Page 20 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:18 PM Figure 2-3. Example of Distributed Parity (RAID 5) Stripe element 1 Stripe element 2 Stripe element 3 Stripe element 4 Stripe element 5 Parity (1–5) Stripe element 7 Stripe element 8 Stripe element 9 Stripe element 10 Parity (6–10) Stripe element 6 Stripe element 11 Stripe element 12 Stripe element 13 Stripe element 14 Stripe element 15 Parity (11–15) Stripe element 19 Stripe element 20 Parity (16–20) Stripe element 16 Stripe elem
