7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System .....................................................................................................40
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................40
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................40
Creating a Driver Disk for Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux ...............................................................41
Creating a Driver Disk for VMware ESX 4.1 .....................................................................................41
Installing with Windows ..............................................................................................................................42
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5 ...............................................................................................42
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux ........................................................................42
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support ................................................42
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support ....................43
Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ...............................................................................................44
Installing with Debian Linux.........................................................................................................................44
Installing with Ubuntu Linux........................................................................................................................45
Installing with Solaris...................................................................................................................................46
Installing with FreeBSD ................................................................................................................................47
Installing with VMware ESX 4.1 ...................................................................................................................47
Installing with VMware ESXi 5.x ..................................................................................................................48
Installing with Citrix XenServer ...................................................................................................................51
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System .........................................................................................52
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................52
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................52
Installing on Windows .................................................................................................................................52
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.................................................................................53
Installing on Debian Linux............................................................................................................................53
Installing on Ubuntu Linux...........................................................................................................................53
Installing on Solaris .....................................................................................................................................54
Installing on FreeBSD ...................................................................................................................................54
Installing on VMware...................................................................................................................................55
Installing on Citrix XenServer.......................................................................................................................56
9 Managing Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................57
About maxView Storage Manager...............................................................................................................57
Installing maxView Storage Manager..............................................................................................57
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration Utility............................................................................57
About the Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility.............................................................................................57
About the Adaptec Flash Utility...................................................................................................................58
Which Utility Should I Use?..........................................................................................................................58
10 Solving Problems ................................................................................................................................................59
Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................................................................................59
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................................................................59
Silencing the Alarm .....................................................................................................................................59
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ...........................................................................................................59
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .....................................................................................60
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ..............................................................................60
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously ......................................................................................60
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array ................................................................................................60
Multiple Failures in the Same Array ................................................................................................60
Failed SSD in maxCache Container..................................................................................................61
Resetting the Controller ..............................................................................................................................61
Appendix A Introduction to SAS...............................................................................................................................62
Terminology Used in This Appendix ............................................................................................................62
What is SAS?.................................................................................................................................................62
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?...........................................................................................................62
What’s a Phy?...............................................................................................................................................63
What’s a SAS Port?.......................................................................................................................................63
What’s a SAS Address?.................................................................................................................................63
What’s a SAS Connector?.............................................................................................................................64
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