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Broadcom DB15-001161-14
December 23, 2019
LSA
LSI
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Storage Authority Software
User Guide
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: How This Guide Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2: LSI Storage Authority Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.1 Support Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2 Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3: LSI Storage Authority Feature Comparison Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 4: LSI Storage Authority Preinstallation, Postinstallation, and Upgrade Requirements
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4.1 Preinstallation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.1.1 OpenSLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2 Upgrade Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2.1 Browser Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 5: Types of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1 Gateway Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2 StandAlone Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.3 DirectAgent Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.4 Indirect Agent Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.5 Light Weight Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 6: Installing the LSI Storage Authority Software on the Microsoft Windows Operating
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.1 Installing in Noninteractive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6.2 Uninstalling in Interactive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.3 Uninstalling in Noninteractive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 7: Adding a Digital Signature and Enabling ASLR and DEP for LSI Utilities . . . . . . . 28
7.1 Installing in the Interactive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.2 Installing in the Noninteractive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.3 Uninstalling the LSI Storage Authority Software on the Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.4 Installing the LSI Storage Authority Software on the Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.4.1 Adding a Digital Signature in a Windows Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.4.2 Adding a Digital Signature in a Linux Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 8: Managing LSA on the VMware ESXi Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.1 Managing Host Hardware RAID Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.1.1 Increasing the Memory Limit of the Host Hardware RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.1.2 Increasing the Polling Interval of the Host Hardware RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.1.3 Disabling the Host Hardware RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.2 Optimizing Event Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.2.1 Configuring the Provider on ESXi Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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8.2.2 Configuring LSA on Gateway Servers for Optimizing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.2.3 Configuring LSA on Gateway Servers to Get Real-Time Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.3 Configuring the Firewall on Various LSA Installers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.3.1 Configuring the Firewall on Gateway/StandAlone Installer (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.3.2 Configuring the Firewall on Gateway/StandAlone Installer (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.3.3 Configuring the Firewall on DirectAgent Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.4 Collecting LSA Logs on Windows and Linux Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.5 Collecting LSA Logs on VMware Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.6 Logout and Reboot Requirements on VMware Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.7 Behavior of Event History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.8 Behavior of Event Monitoring on Non-ESXi versus ESXi Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.9 Limitations of Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.10 Upgrading and Downgrading the Firmware on IR/IT Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.11 Differences in LSA for VMware ESXi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 9: Performing Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1 Domain Authentication Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1.1 Adding Translated Names in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1.2 Adding Translated Names in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1.3 Using LDAP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.2 Accessing LSA over Network Address Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.3 Changing the LSI Storage Authority Application Port Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.4 Hiding an Empty Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.5 Changing the nginx Web Server Port Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.6 Changing the Nginx Read Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 10: Performing Initial Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
10.1 Managing Servers from the Remote Server Discovery Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
10.2 Adding Managed Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
10.3 Removing Managed Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
10.4 Manually Discovering Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
10.5 Alert Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
10.6 Setting Up the Email Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
10.7 Adding Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 11: Server Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 12: Controller Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 13: Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
13.1 Creating a New Storage Configuration Using the Simple Configuration Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
13.2 Creating a New Storage Configuration Using the Advanced Configuration Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
13.2.1 Adding Physical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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13.2.2 Adding Hot Spares to the Existing Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
13.2.3 Adding Virtual Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
13.3 Clearing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
13.4 Importing or Clearing the Foreign Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
13.5 UNMAP Capability Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
13.5.1 UNMAP Capability Feature Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
13.5.2 UNMAP Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
13.6 Personality Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
13.6.1 Changing Behavior Modes and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
13.7 Profile Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
13.7.1 Changing Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chapter 14: Background Operations Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 15: Managing Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
15.1 Viewing Controller Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
15.2 Running the Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
15.2.1 Setting the Consistency Check Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
15.2.2 Scheduling a Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
15.3 Running Patrol Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
15.3.1 Setting Patrol Read Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
15.3.2 Starting a Patrol Read Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
15.3.3 Stopping a Patrol Read Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
15.4 Managing SAS Storage Link Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
15.5 Managing PCIe Storage Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
15.6 Setting the Adjustable Task Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
15.7 Managing Power-Save Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
15.8 Enabling and Disabling SSD Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
15.9 Discarding Pinned Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
15.10 Downloading the TTY Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
15.11 Updating the Controller Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 16: MegaRAID Advanced Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
16.1 Activating MegaRAID Advanced Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
16.1.1 Advanced MegaRAID Software Status Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
16.1.1.1 Activating a Trial Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
16.1.1.2 Activating an Unlimited Key over a Trial Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
16.1.1.3 Reusing the Activation Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
16.1.1.4 Application Scenarios and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
16.2 Securing Advanced MegaRAID Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
16.3 Configuring the Key Vault (Re-Hosting Process) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
16.4 Implementing the Re-Hosting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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16.5 Snapdump Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
16.5.1 Snapdump Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
16.5.2 Retrieving the Snapdump Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
16.6 Deactivating Trial Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
16.7 Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
16.7.1 Creating a CacheCade Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
16.7.2 Modifying the CacheCade Virtual Drive Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
16.7.3 Enabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
16.7.4 Disabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
16.7.5 Clearing Configuration on Controllers that Have CacheCade Virtual Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
16.7.6 Deleting a CacheCade – SSD Caching Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
16.8 MegaRAID Fast Path Advanced Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
16.9 MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
16.9.1 Enabling Drive Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
16.9.2 Changing Drive Security Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
16.9.3 Disabling Drive Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
16.9.4 Importing or Clearing a Foreign Configuration – Security-Enabled Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Chapter 17: Managing Drive Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
17.1 Viewing Drive Group Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
17.2 Adding a Virtual Drive to a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
17.3 RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
17.3.1 Migrating the RAID Level of a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
17.3.1.1 Adding Physical Drives to a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
17.3.1.2 Removing Drives from a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
17.3.1.3 Migrating the RAID Level without Adding or Removing Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chapter 18: Managing Virtual Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
18.1 Viewing Virtual Drive Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
18.2 Modifying Virtual Drive Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
18.3 Start and Stop Locating a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
18.4 Erasing a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
18.5 Initializing a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
18.6 Starting Consistency Check on a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
18.7 Expanding the Online Capacity of a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
18.8 Deleting a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
18.9 Behavior of Virtual Drive Operations on VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
18.9.1 Enabling the Schedule Panel Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
18.9.2 Disabling the Schedule Panel Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
18.9.3 Modifying the Time Limit of the Schedule Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
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18.10 Hiding and Unhiding a Virtual Drive or a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
18.10.1 Hiding a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
18.10.2 Unhiding a Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
18.10.3 Hiding a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
18.10.4 Unhiding a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Chapter 19: Managing Physical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
19.1 Viewing Physical Drive Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
19.2 Locating Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
19.3 Start and Stop Locating a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
19.4 Making a Drive Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
19.5 Making a Drive Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
19.6 Replacing a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
19.7 Marking a Drive as a Missing Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
19.8 Assigning Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
19.9 Removing Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
19.10 Assigning Dedicated Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
19.11 Rebuilding a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
19.12 Converting an Unconfigured Bad Drive to an Unconfigured Good Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
19.13 Removing a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
19.14 Making Unconfigured Good Drives and Making a JBOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
19.14.1 Making Unconfigured Good Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
19.14.2 Making a JBOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
19.15 Erasing a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
19.16 Erasing a Drive Securely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 20: Managing Hardware Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
20.1 Monitoring Energy Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
20.1.1 Viewing Energy Pack Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
20.1.2 Refreshing Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
20.1.3 Setting Learn Cycle Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
20.1.4 Starting a Learn Cycle Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
20.2 Monitoring Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
20.2.1 Viewing Enclosure Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
20.2.2 Viewing Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chapter 21: Viewing Event Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
21.1 Downloading Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
21.2 Clearing Event Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter 22: Customizing the Theme of the LSI Storage Authority Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
22.1 Viewing Default Theme Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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22.2 Customizing the Logo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
22.3 Customizing the Header Background Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Chapter 23: Introduction to the Light Weight Monitor System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
23.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
23.2 Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
23.3 Alert Delivery Methods Based on Severity Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
23.3.1 System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
23.3.2 Email Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
23.3.3 Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 24: Installing the Light Weight Monitor System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
24.1 Installing the LSI Storage Authority Software on the Windows Operating System through the LSA Master
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
24.2 Installing the Light Weight Monitor on the Windows Operating System through the LSA Stand Alone
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
24.3 Uninstalling Light Weight Monitor Software on the Windows Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
24.4 Installing the Light Weight Monitor on the Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
24.5 Uninstalling the Light Weight Monitor on the Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
24.6 Installing Light Weight Monitor on the Oracle Solaris x86 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
24.7 Uninstalling the Light Weight Monitor on the Oracle Solaris x86 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 25: Configuring the Light Weight Monitor System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
25.1 Setting Up the Email Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
25.2 Setting Up the Custom Facility Level in the System Log File for the Solaris x86 Operating System . . . . 132
25.3 Adding the Email Addresses of Alert Notification Recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 26: Configuring Alert Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
26.1 Changing the Default Alert Delivery Method for Each Severity Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
26.2 Changing the Alert Delivery Method for a Specific Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
26.3 Changing the Severity Level for a Specific Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Appendix A: Introduction to RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.1 RAID Components and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.1.1 Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.1.2 Physical Drive States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.1.3 Virtual Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.1.4 Virtual Drive States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.1.5 Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.1.5.1 Multipathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A.1.5.2 Wide Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A.1.6 Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A.1.7 Copyback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
A.1.8 Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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A.1.9 Patrol Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
A.1.10 Disk Striping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
A.1.11 Disk Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
A.1.12 Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
A.1.13 Disk Spanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
A.1.14 Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
A.1.15 Disk Rebuilds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A.1.16 Rebuild Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A.1.17 Hot Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A.1.18 Enclosure Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A.2 RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A.2.1 Summary of RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
A.2.2 Selecting a RAID Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
A.2.3 RAID 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
A.2.4 RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
A.2.5 RAID 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
A.2.6 RAID 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
A.2.7 RAID 00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
A.2.8 RAID 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
A.2.9 RAID 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
A.2.10 RAID 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
A.3 RAID Configuration Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
A.3.1 Maximizing Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
A.3.2 Maximizing Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
A.3.3 Maximizing Storage Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
A.4 RAID Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
A.4.1 RAID Availability Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
A.5 Configuration Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
A.6 Possible Raid Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Appendix B: Events and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
B.1 Error Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
B.2 Event Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Appendix C: HTTP Status Codes and Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Appendix D: SAS Address Assignment Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Appendix E: Multi-Selection Threshold for Virtual and Physical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Appendix F: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
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Version 1.11, May 30, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Version 1.10, February 16, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Version 1.9, November 30, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Version 1.8, September 11, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Version 1.7, June 21, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Version 1.6, March 24, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Version 1.5, November 18, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Version 1.4, October 6, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Version 1.3, November 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Version 1.2, July 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Version 1.1, April 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Version 1.0, November 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
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Chapter 1: How This Guide Is Organized
The LSI Storage Authority Software User Guide contains the following sections.
Section Description
LSI Storage Authority Overview
Provides an overview of the LSI
®
Storage Authority, including monitoring and
maintaining storage devices and the required hardware and software to run the
application.
LSI Storage Authority Feature Comparison Matrix
Outlines the LSI Storage Authority feature differences for MegaRAID
®
, iMegaRAID,
Software RAID, and Initiator-Target (IT) controllers.
Types of Installation Provides information on LSI Storage Authority installers and steps to install and
uninstall the LSI Storage Authority.
Performing Initial Setup Provides certain initial setups that you need to perform.
Server Dashboard Provides information about the Server dashboard.
Controller Dashboard Provides information about the Controller dashboard.
Configuration Provides information on how to create and modify storage configurations on systems
with Broadcom
®
controllers.
Background Operations Support Provides information on background operations support, such as Pause, Resume,
Abort, and so on.
Managing Controllers Provides information on how to monitor the activity of all the controllers present in the
system and the devices attached to them.
MegaRAID Advanced Software Provides information on certain premium features that the LSI Storage Authority
supports on MegaRAID SAS 12Gb/s RAID controllers.
Managing Drive Groups Provides information on how to monitor the status of the drive groups and spanned
drive groups.
Managing Virtual Drives Provides information on how to perform various operations on the virtual drives.
Managing Physical Drives Provides information on how to manage physical drives that are connected to the
controller.
Managing Hardware Components Provides information on managing hardware components.
Viewing Event Logs Provides information on how to view event logs.
Customizing the Theme of the LSI Storage
Authority Software
Provides information on customizing the theme of the LSI Storage Authority, such as
adding your company logo or changing the default colors.
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Chapter 2: LSI Storage Authority Overview
The LSI Storage Authority (LSA) is a web-based application that enables you to monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and
configure the Broadcom
®
MegaRAID products. The LSI Storage Authority graphical user interface (GUI) helps you to view,
create, and manage storage configurations.
Monitoring and Configuring: LSA lets you monitor the controllers and configure the drives on the controller.
It displays the status of the controller cards, virtual drives, and physical drives on the controller. The device status icons
are displayed on their respective pages to notify you in case of drive failures and other events that require your immediate
attention. Real-time email notifications on the status of the server are sent based on your alert settings. The system
errors and events are recorded and displayed in an event log file. Additionally, you can also import or clear foreign
configurations.
Maintaining: Using LSA, you can perform system maintenance tasks, such as updating the controller firmware.
Troubleshooting: LSA displays information related to drive failures, device failures, and so on.
It also provides recommendations and displays contextual links, helping you to easily locate the drives and devices that
have issues and troubleshoot them. You can also download a complete report of the all the devices and their
configurations, properties, and settings and send it to the Support Teams for further troubleshooting.
Personality Management: The Personality Management solutions for MegaRAID controllers support personality modes
in the form of a new JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives) personality.
This new JBOD personality is a unique personality derived from the standard RAID personality with additional features.
The additional features that the JBOD personality provides are:
– Switching between behavior modes; you can switch between JBOD and None.
– Auto-configuration option.
The following additional features are supported in the new JBOD personality mode: RAID 0, RAID 00, RAID 1,
RAID 10, PRL 11, and spanned PRL 11 are supported.
– SEP is exposed to the operating system.
You can switch to JBOD personality mode from the standard RAID personality mode to use these additional features.
– In addition to SAS and SATA drives, starting with LSA 2.4 and later, nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) drives are
also supported.
2.1 Support Matrix
The following table provides the support requirements for the LSI Storage Authority software.
Table 1 Hardware and Software Support Matrix
Supported Items Version/Flavors
Supported controllers Broadcom 3916 SAS3 and PCIe4 Tri-mode RAID on Chip
MegaRAID 12Gb/s SAS RAID controllers and Integrated MegaRAID 12Gb/s SAS
RAID controllers
– SAS 3516 based MegaRAID and iMR
– SAS 3108 based MegaRAID and iMR
– SAS 3008 based HBAs
Initiator-Target 3 (IT3) controller
Software RAID controller (SWR)
– Software RAID controller for Lewisburg
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Supported operating systems Microsoft
Windows 10 RS1 LTSC x64
Windows 10 RS1 LTSC x86
Windows 10 RS4 x86 (SAC)
Windows 10 RS5 LTSC
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 H1 (SAC)
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SP1)
VMware
VMware vSphere 6.7, Update 1
VMware vSphere 6.7, Update 2
VMware vSphere 6.7, Update 3
VMware vSphere 6.5, Update 1
VMware vSphere 6.5, Update 2
VMware vSphere 6.5, Update 3
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Supported web browsers
Windows Internet Explorer 9.0 and later
Mozilla Firefox version 9.0 and later
Google Chrome version 16.0 and later
Supported networks
Internet Protocol versions 4 and 6
Network Address Translation
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Domain
HTTP, HTTPS
Supported languages
English
NOTE: See Section 9.1, Domain Authentication Behavior for non English server
support.
Table 2 Arm-based Server Support
Controllers Supported Operating Systems Supported
SAS 3516 Ventura based MegaRAID and iMR Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SP1)
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Table 1 Hardware and Software Support Matrix (Continued)
Supported Items Version/Flavors
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2.2 Technical Support
For assistance with running or configuring the LSI Storage Authority, contact a Broadcom Technical Support representative.
Click the following link to send an email, or call a Technical Support representative, or submit a new service request and
view its status.
Contact Technical Support: https://www.broadcom.com/support/call-us.
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Chapter 3: LSI Storage Authority Feature Comparison Matrix
The following tables outline the LSA feature differences for MegaRAID, iMegaRAID, Software RAID, and Initiator-Target
controllers with respect to software features and firmware features. The tables also indicate the supported and unsupported
features for a specific controller.
Some of the features might not be supported on all the controllers. Refer to these feature comparison matrices for
information on the features that are supported on your controller.
Table 3 Firmware Feature Comparison Matrix
Feature Name MegaRAID iMegaRAID Software RAID IntegratedRAID Initiator-Target
RAID level RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 5, RAID 6,
RAID 00,
RAID 10,
RAID 50,
RAID 60,
RAID 1E, and
Spanned
RAID 1E
(PRL-11)
RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 5, RAID 10,
RAID 50, and
RAID 1E
RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 5, and
RAID 10
RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 10, and
RAID 1E
No
Maximum Configurable physical drives 240 iMegaRAID 32.
The rest of the
drives can be
used as JBODs.
8 12 configurable
physical drives
and two Hot
Spares
1024
Maximum spans 8 8 4 No No
Maximum virtual drives 240 32 8 2 No
Dimmer Switch DS-I and DS-II No No No No
Maximum media errors 256 102 256 No No
Drive-mixing support Yes Yes Yes No No
Strip size support 64 KB, 128 KB,
256 KB, 512 KB,
and 1024 KB
64 KB 64 KB 64 KB No
Maximum VDs per Drive Group 64 16 8 1 No
Multipath Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Controller reset support Yes Yes No No No
Table 4 Software Feature Comparison Matrix
Feature Name MegaRAID iMegaRAID Software RAID IntegratedRAID Initiator-Target
LDAP authentication Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Server discovery and managing servers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Server dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Controller dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Simple configuration Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Advanced configuration Yes Yes Yes Yes No
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CacheCade
®
– SSD Caching
configuration
No No No No No
Foreign configuration (import/clear) Yes Yes No Yes No
Clear configuration Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Update firmware Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Online Firmware Update Yes Yes No Yes No
Controller Operations
Setting consistency check properties Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Scheduling consistency check Yes Yes No No No
Setting patrol read properties Yes Yes Yes No No
Starting patrol read Yes Yes Yes No No
Stopping patrol read Yes Yes Yes No No
Managing link speed Yes Yes No No No
Setting adjustable task rates Yes Yes
Yes
a
No No
Enable and disable alarm Yes Yes No No No
Silence alarm Yes Yes No No No
Manage power-save settings Yes Yes No No No
Enable and disable SSD Guard™ Yes Yes No No No
Enable and disable security Yes Yes No No No
Change drive security Yes Yes No No No
Discarding preserved cache Yes
No
b
No No No
Downloading TTY log Yes Yes No No No
Background operations Yes Yes
Yes
c
No No
Personality management Yes No No No No
Advanced Software Features
Fast Path Yes Yes No No No
CacheCade SSD No No No No No
CacheCade Pro Yes No No No No
SafeStore™ Yes Yes No No No
RAID 5 and RAID 6 Yes
Yes
d
No No No
Modify drive group Yes Yes No No No
Secure using FDE Yes Yes No No No
Disable data protection Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Hide and unhide Yes Yes No No No
Virtual Drive Operations
Virtual drive settings and modifying
virtual drive properties
Yes
Yes
e
Yes
f
Yes
g
No
Start and stop locating a virtual drive Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Erasing a virtual drive Yes Yes No No No
Initializing a virtual drive Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Starting consistency check on a virtual
drive
Yes Yes Yes No No
Table 4 Software Feature Comparison Matrix (Continued)
Feature Name MegaRAID iMegaRAID Software RAID IntegratedRAID Initiator-Target
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Expanding the online capacity of a
virtual drive
Yes Yes No No No
Deleting a virtual drive Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Hide and unhide Yes Yes No No No
Physical Drive Operations
Assign global hot spare Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Remove a global hot spare Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Assign a dedicated hot spare Yes Yes No No No
Remove a dedicated hot spare Yes Yes No No No
Start and stop a locating drive Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Making a drive online and offline Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Replacing a drive Yes Yes No No No
Rebuilding a drive Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Prepare for removal Yes Yes No No No
Erasing a drive Yes Yes No No No
Instant secure erase Yes Yes No No No
Converting an unconfigured bad drive to
an unconfigured good drive
Yes Yes No No No
Make an unconfigured good drive Yes Yes No No No
Make a JBOD and delete a JBOD Yes Yes No No No
Energy Pack Operations
Learn cycle Yes No No No No
Event Logs
Viewing event logs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
a. Limited properties can be set. The Reconstruction Rate option is not supported.
b. Energy pack is not supported.
c. Unsupported background operations are Reconstruction, Copyback, and PD Format. Supported background operations are Rebuild, Full
Initialization, Fast Initialization, Check Consistency, Patrol Read, and BGI for RAID 5 and RAID 6. Pause and Resume are not supported for
the Patrol Read operation.
d. RAID 6 is not supported.
e. Cached IO and Write Back options are not supported.
f. Cached IO and Write Back options are not supported.
g. All the settings except the virtual drive name in the virtual settings window are disabled. After you create the virtual drive, you can only change
the disk cache policy.
Table 4 Software Feature Comparison Matrix (Continued)
Feature Name MegaRAID iMegaRAID Software RAID IntegratedRAID Initiator-Target
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Chapter 4: LSI Storage Authority Preinstallation,
Postinstallation, and Upgrade Requirements
This section describes the tasks that you must complete before you install, after the installation is complete, and while
upgrading the LSI Storage Authority.
4.1 Preinstallation Requirements
You must complete this task before you install LSI Storage Authority (LSA):
If you want to access any other server with a particular gateway, ensure that you have installed the same version of LSA
on both systems.
NOTE: You must stop LSA services if configuring a SAS 3.5 controller pass-through using DDA in a Windows
environment.
4.1.1 OpenSLP
SLP or Service Location Protocol is a process by which nodes on a network and select services and resources can be
discovered. By nature, this process is dynamic and requires little or no static configuration. OpenSLP is just an open source
implementation of SLP, suitable for commercial and noncommercial applications.
From an LSA perspective, OpenSLP requires multicasting functionality to discover the servers that are connected over a
subnet. For the Remote Server Discovery page to display all the registered servers, ensure that the servers are connected
to a network configuration that supports multicasting.
If OpenSLP Is Not Installed
No action is required. With the latest versions of LSA, OpenSLP is bundled within the LSA package itself. While installing
LSA, ensure that you select the option to install OpenSLP, and LSA seamlessly installs the required version of OpenSLP.
If OpenSLP Is Already Installed Before Installing LSA
If an instance of OpenSLP is already installed, LSA 2.2 and later packages skip installing OpenSLP.
An Instance of OpenSLP Was Already Installed, but LSA Is Unable to Display All the Registered Servers from the
Remote Discovery Page
Restart the SLPD Services and LSA Service if LSA does not discover the servers from the Remote Discovery page.
4.2 Upgrade Requirements
The following are the tasks that you must complete while upgrading the LSI Storage Authority.
4.2.1 Browser Cache
If you are upgrading from a previous version of LSA, clear the browser cache on the client on which you are using LSA.
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Chapter 5: Types of Installation
The following are the different types of LSI Storage Authority installers:
Gateway
StandAlone
DirectAgent
Light Weight Monitor (LWM)
The following table provides more information on each of these installers and their associated advantages.
5.1 Gateway Installer
The Gateway installer has the following components:
A backend with local agent and remote agent management capabilities
A monitor with remote monitoring capability
A client with remote and managed server capabilities
The Gateway installer has the following features:
Permits discovery of other servers that run the LSI Storage Authority
Permits self-registration using OpenSLP and has an interface for server discovery detection from the network
Allows you to manage the servers from the list of discovered servers through the user interface.
Table 5 Types of Installers and Associated Support
Feature Gateway Installer StandAlone Installer DirectAgent Installer Light Weight Monitor
Permits discovery of other
servers that run the LSI
Storage Authority
software
YesNoNoNo
Permits self-registration
using OpenSLP and has
an interface for server
discovery detection from
the network
Yes Yes
NOTE: No interface exists
for remote server
discovery.
No No
Allows the management
of servers from the list of
discovered servers
through the user interface
(UI)
YesNoNoNo
Provides capability to
configure LDAP
information
Yes Yes No No
Provides server
monitoring capabilities
and helps to monitor the
health of the server and
alerts the end-user of any
issues with event logs and
email notifications
Yes Yes Yes Yes
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5.2 StandAlone Installer
The StandAlone installer has the following components:
A backend with a local agent (without remote agent management capability)
A monitor (without remote monitoring capability).
A client (without remote and managed server capabilities)
The StandAlone installer has the following features and limitations:
Does not permit the discovery of other hosts that are running the LSI Storage Authority
Permits self-registration of the current host using OpenSLP but does not have any interface for server discovery
detection from the network
Provides capability to configure LDAP information
Does not permit to add managed servers through the (UI).
5.3 DirectAgent Installer
The following are the types of DirectAgent installations:
Indirect agent (MegaRAID SMI-S provider)
DirectAgent
The DirectAgent installer has the following components:
A backend with local agent and a monitor component
A thin agent, which supports discovery (using SLP), authentication, and DCMD tunneling
5.4 Indirect Agent Installer
The Indirect Agent installer has the following components:
A backend with local agent and a monitor component
A thin agent, which supports discovery (using SLP), authentication, and DCMD tunneling
OpenSLP
MegaRAID SMI-S provider
Light Weight Monitor (LWM)
5.5 Light Weight Monitor
The Light Weight Monitor has the following benefits:
Provides server monitoring capabilities.
Light Weight Monitor (LWM) monitors the status of the controller cards, virtual drives, drives, and other devices on the
server.
Alerts you of any issues that require immediate attention with system logs and real-time email notifications (based on the
alert settings).
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