Avago Technologies SAS 9207-4i4e User Manual

SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility

(SAS2IRCU)

User Guide

Version 1.1

November 2012

DB15-000933-01

SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility (SAS2IRCU) User Guide
November 2012

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Version and Date Description of Changes

Version 1.1, November 2012

Version 1.0, February 2012 Initial release of this document.

 Added information about new commands DELETEVOLUME, BOOTIR, BOOTENCL, and HELP.

 Added support for 4-KB sector disk drives.

 Updated information about supported operating system architecture, supported LSI

controller chips, and supported operating systems.

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SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility (SAS2IRCU) User Guide
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Hardware and Software Requirements

SAS-2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility (SAS2IRCU) User Guide

This document explains how to use the command-line-driven SAS-2 Integrated RAID configuration utility (SAS2IRCU)
to create Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS-2 controllers.

You execute SAS2IRCU commands from a command-line prompt or a shell script. When you use a SAS2IRCU
command, the program returns a status value to the operating system when it exits.

You can use SAS2IRCU to quickly and efficiently configure Integrated RAID devices on LSI SAS-2 controllers.

NOTE In this document, the term disk means hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD), and the HDDs
or SSDs can support either SAS or SATA protocol.

1 Hardware and Software Requirements

SAS2IRCU runs on the following operating system architecture:

 Windows®: x86, x64 (AMD64)
 Linux®: x86, x86_64 (supported with x86 build), PPC64
 UEFI: EFI Byte Code (EBC)
 Solaris®: x86 (or compatible), SPARC®
 FreeBSD®: x86 (or i386), AMD64 (or compatible)

SAS2IRCU operates with storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards.

1.1 Controller Support

SAS2IRCU supports the following LSI SAS-2 controllers and the host bus adapters based on these controllers:

 LSISAS2004
 LSISAS2008
 LSISAS2108
 LSISAS2208
 LSISAS2304
 LSISAS2308

1.2 Operating System and Software Support

SAS2IRCU requires PCI 2.x or PCI 3.0 firmware and MPI v2.0. SAS2IRCU supports the following operating systems.

NOTE LSI® recommends that you use the latest version of the driver for any operating system.

 Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista®, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8,

Windows Server 2012

 UEFI 2.1, UEFI 2.3

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 Linux 2.6 Kernel - Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and higher, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and higher

Requires the Linux driver v00.255.04.00 or greater. LSI recommends that you use the latest version of the driver
available on the LSI website.

 MS-DOS® 6.22 and FreeDOS 1.0

SAS2IRCU runs on DOS only if the system BIOS supports 32-bit BIOS services, including the PCI BIOS services.
SAS2IRCU uses these services to directly access the controller and its interface registers.

 Solaris 10 update 10, Solaris 11 express (CPU – x86 and x64)

Oracle® provides a built-in Solaris 10 driver for the LSI 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS and SCSI adapters. Installation of an
LSI driver is not required. For information about installing the Oracle Solaris 10 driver, refer to the Oracle website.
Contact Oracle directly if you have questions about the Oracle driver.

 FreeBSD 7.2 and higher in both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
 VMware® ESXi 5.0

2Interface Description

Use this syntax for SAS2IRCU commands:

sas2ircu <controller_#> <command> <parameters>

Interface Description

Use a space to separate the program name, the controller number, the command, and the parameters fields. The
format of <parameters> is command specific.

Information passes between the user environment and SAS2IRCU through the command line, the standard output
and standard error interfaces, and the program return value. It is possible to redirect the output streams as permitted
by the operating system. When the program exits, it returns a value of 0 if the command is successful. Otherwise, it
returns a value of 1.

If a command fails, SAS2IRCU prints the IOCStatus and IOCLogInfo on the console. This information is useful in
determining the cause of the failure.

3Commands

The following table lists the SAS2IRCU commands and shows which commands are supported on each operating
system. Click the hyperlinks to view information about the commands.

Table 1 SASIRCU Commands

SAS2IRCU
Command

CREATE XXXXX

DELETE XXXXX

DOS Linux EFI Solaris FreeBSD

Operating System

DELETEVOLUME XXXXX

DISPLAY XXXXX

HOTSPARE XXXXX

LIST XXXXX

STATUS XXXX X

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Table 1 SASIRCU Commands (Continued)

Commands

SAS2IRCU
Command

CONSTCHK XXXXX

ACTIVATE XXXXX

LOCATE XXXXX

LOGIR XXXXX

BOOTIR XXXXX

BOOTENCL XXXXX

HELP XXXXX

DOS Linux EFI Solaris FreeBSD

The commands are not case sensitive. The individual command descriptions that follow use the following
conventions:

 Replace text enclosed in < > with a required parameter, such as a controller number or a volume type.
 Replace text enclosed in [ ] with an optional parameter.
 Enter parameters enclosed in { } one or more times, as required for the command.
 Do not use the command-line definition characters < >, [ ], and { } on the command line.

3.1 Common Command-Line Parameters

Operating System

This section describes command-line parameters that are common to more than one command.

 <controller_#>

The unique controller number that the program assigns to each PCI function found on supported controller chips
in the system, starting with controller # 0. For example, in a system containing two LSISAS2008 controllers,
controller # 0 references the first controller and controller # 1 references the other controller. Use the LIST
command to view a list of controllers connected to the system and the controller number for each controller.

Valid controller number values are 0 to 255 (decimal).

 <Enclosure:Bay>

The enclosure and bay (or slot) of a peripheral device attached to the bus. The argument must use a colon ( : ) as a
separator and must follow the Enclosure:Bay format. Enclosure is a 16-bit EnclosureHandle value set by the I/O
controller (IOC). A value of 0 is invalid. Bay/Slot is a 16-bit slot value set by the IOC. Use the DISPLAY command to
determine the enclosure number and slot number of a drive.

3.2 CREATE

The CREATE command creates Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS-2 controllers.

When you add a disk to an Integrated RAID volume, the volume might not use all of the disk’s storage capacity. For
example, if you add a 300-GB disk drive to a volume that only uses 200 GB of capacity on each disk drive, the volume
does not use the remaining 100 GB of capacity on the disk drive.

The disk identified by the first Enclosure:Bay on the command line becomes the primary disk drive when you create an
Integrated Mirroring (RAID 1) volume. If the controller resynchronizes the disk drives, the data on the primary disk
drive becomes available when you access the newly created volume.

When the Integrated RAID firmware creates a RAID 1 volume, it starts a background initialization of the volume. Use
the STATUS command to monitor the status of the initialization.

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