HighPoint 2782 User Manual

RocketRAID 2782 6Gb/s

SAS/SATA

Host Adapter User Guide

Revision: 1.1

Date: May 2011

HighPoint Technologies, Inc.

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Contents

HIGHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. .............................................................. 6

HIGHPOINT ROCKETRAID 2782 – PCI-EXPRESS 2.0×16 ........................... 7

1 - Features and Specifications ....................................................................... 8

2 - Kit Contents ................................................................................................ 9

HARDWARE – DESCRIPTION AND INSTALLATION ................................... 10

ROCKETRAID27 8 2 BIO S UTILITY ............................................................... 13

1 - BIOS Settings Overview ........................................................................... 13

Using the BIOS Utility………………………………………………………..13

BIOS Commands……………………………………………………………….14

2 - Creating RAID Arrays ............................................................................... 14

3 – Deleting A rray s ......................................................................................... 18

4 - Add/Remove Spare Disks ......................................................................... 19

5 - Settings ..................................................................................................... 19

HIGHPOINT SOFTWARE CD ....................................................................... 21

Creating a driver diskette ............................................................................... 21

Device Driver Installation – Windows Operating Systems ............................. 22

RocketRAID 2782 Windows 7/Vista/Windows 2008 Driver Installation ......... 22

HighPoint RAID Management Utilities (HRM) – Web GUI / CLI .................... 27

Windows Operating S ystem s – Installing the Web GUI from the Software CD.

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Red Hat Enterprise/C entOS, Fedora Core, Open SuS E, SL ES – Installing the

Web-based Management utility ..................................................................... 27

Debian/Ubuntu Linux Distributions – Installing the Web-based Management

Utility .............................................................................................................. 29

Linux Distributions – Command Line Interface ( CLI)………………………… 30 1 - Installing the Web GUI (v1.5.5) - Windows Operating Systems ( Vista,

2008, Windows 7) .......................................................................................... 30

2 - Starting the Web GUI ................................................................................ 34

3 - Web GUI – Icon Definitions ...................................................................... 35

4 - Web GUI - Configuring an Array ............................................................... 36

Initializing a new hard dr ive ……………………………………………………36

Create an Array……………………………………………………………….37

5 - Web GUI - Configuring Spare Disks ......................................................... 40

To assign a Spare disk:………………………………………………………...40

6 - Web GUI - Recovering an Array ............................................................... 41

To Rebuild an array:………………………………………………………….42

7 - Web GUI - Maintaining RAID Arrays ........................................................ 43

Scheduling Tasks:………………………………………………………………44

Removing Tasks……………………………………………………………...44

SHI – Storage Health Ins p e ct or……………………………………………….44

8 - Web GUI - Safeguarding your Array ......................................................... 45

Automatic RAID Rebu il ding……………………………………………………46

9 - Web GUI - Event Notification .................................................................... 48

Configuring SMTP (E-mail) Notification……………………………………49

10 - Web GUI - Advanced RAID Functions (Windows VSS, OCE/ORLM) .... 50

VSS – Variable Sector Size……………………………………………………50

Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration (OCE/ORLM)….55

CUSTOMER SUPPORT ................................................................................ 58

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Troubleshooting Checklist .............................................................................. 58

THANK YOU .................................................................................................. 59

FCC Part 15 Class B Radio Frequency Interference statement .................... 60

HighPoint Technologies, Inc.

HighPoint Technologies, long recognized as a leader in mass storage technologies specializes in the design and manufacturer of HBA (Host Bus Adapters) and HighPoint RAID IP (Intellectual Property). HighPoint provides a broad range of scalable hardware HBA’s that meet the storage requirements from Enterprise to SMB (Small Medium Sized Business) to PC enthusiast.

HighPoint RocketRAID 2700 Series

HighPoint RocketRAID 2782 – PCI-Express

2.0×16

The RocketRAID 2782 host adapter is a high-performance SAS RAID solution, delivering reliability to demanding data-intensive applications such as tiered storage environments (disk-to-disk or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup), security and surveillance, video editing, and digital content creation. Support for both 6Gb/s SAS and SATA drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SATA dri ves av ailab le tod a y.

HighPoint RAID Management HighPoint RAID Management software offers a user friendly interface to create, manage and maintain your storage solutions. Email notification and remote are some of the advance features that the RAID Management software has to offer.

COMPREHENSIVE OS SUPPORT

HighPoint offers the broadest range of support for all major operating systems to ensure OS and hardware server compatibility. Drivers are available for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

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