Intel® RAID Modules RMSP3AD160F,
RMSP3CD080F, and RMSP3HDO80E
Hardware User Guide
A document providing an overview of product features, specification data, and
hardware installation instructions
Rev 1.1
September 2019
Intel® Server Products and Solutions
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Warnings
Heed safety instructions: Before working with your server product, whether you are using this guide or any
other resource as a reference, pay close attention to the safety instructions. You must adhere to the
assembly instructions in this guide to ensure and maintain compliance with existing product certifications
and approvals. Use only the described, regulated components specified in this guide. Use of other
products/components will void the UL listing and other regulatory approvals of the product and will most
likely result in noncompliance with product regulations in the region(s) in which the product is sold.
System power on/off: The power button DOES NOT turn off the system AC power. To remove all power
from the system, you must unplug the AC power cord from the wall outlet. Make sure the AC power cord is
unplugged before you open the chassis, add, or remove any components.
Hazardous conditions, devicesand cables: Hazardous electrical conditions may be present on power,
telephone, and communication cables. Turn off the server and disconnect the power cord,
telecommunications systems, networks, and modems attached to the server before opening it. Otherwise,
personal injury or equipment damage can result.
Installing or removing jumpers: A jumper is a small plastic-encased conductor that slips over two jumper
pins. Some jumpers have a small tab on top that you can grip with your fingertips or with a pair of fine needle
nosed pliers. If your jumpers do not have such a tab, take care when using needle-nosed pliers to remove or
install a jumper; grip the narrow sides of the jumper with the pliers, never the wide sides. Gripping the wide
sides can damage the contacts inside the jumper, causing intermittent problems with the function controlled
by that jumper. Take care to grip with, but not squeeze, the pliers or other tool you use to remove a jumper,
or you may bend or break the pins on the board.
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) and ESD protection: ESD can damage disk drives, boards, and other parts. We
recommend that you perform all procedures in this chapter only at an ESD workstation. If one is not
available, provide some ESD protection by wearing an anti-static wrist strap attached to chassis ground, any
unpainted metal surface on your server when handling parts.
ESD and handling boards: Always handle boards carefully. They can be extremely sensitive to ESD. Hold
boards only by their edges. After removing a board from its protective wrapper or from the server, place the
board component side up on a grounded, static-free surface. Use a conductive foam pad if available but not
the board wrapper. Do not slide board over any surface.
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Document Title
Description
Intel® RAID Software User Guide for full
A document that provides information on RAID Card Setup and usage of supported
What to Do when Unable to Enter BIOS
Article ID: 000059999. If the Intel or OEM logo screen displays during POST, the BIOS
Intel® Server System R2000WF Product
Section 4.1 provides guidance to provide adequate cooling when installing the RAID
12 Gbps SAS or 6G SATA Data Transfer
Article ID# 000008025. A document that provides information on how and where the
1. Preface
1.1 About This Document
This document provides an overview of product features, specification data, and hardware installation
instructions for the Intel® Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Modules RMSP3AD160F,
RMSP3CD080F, and RMSP3HD080E.
1.2 Document Organization
This document includes the following:
Chapter 1 – Product Overview – Provides a product overview of the features set and support specifications.
Chapter 2 – General Feature Overview – Provides a brief description for the features that are common for the products covered by this guide.
Chapter 3 – Detailed Characteristics – Provides details on the characteristics for each of the products covered by this guide.
Chapter 4 – Connectivity and Drive Support – Provides description of what drives are supported by the
products covered by this guide and the way to connect them.
Chapter 5 – Hardware Installation - Provides support for the installation of the product on the Intel systems
where they are supported.
Chapter 6 – Safety and Regulatory
Chapter 7 – Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 – Provides details of the Intel® RAID
Maintenance-Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 accessory option.
Appendix A. Glossary of Terms
Reference Documents and Online Articles
The following documents are available for download and will be useful to setting up and using the Intel RAID
module.
featured and entry level RAID
controllers
or Intel® RAID BIOS Console During
Boot for Intel® Server Boards
entry or Intel® RAID BIOS console command prompts are not visible. To gain access to
these prompts, disable the logo screen.
modules on the R2000WF systems.
Controller Support for Intel® RAID
Controllers
controller supports 12-Gbps SAS (6G SATA) data transfers.
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1.3 Product Support Collaterals
In addition to this user guide, Intel provides documentation, device driver updates, and utilities that may be
necessary and/or useful for operation and support of this product. Additional product support collaterals can
be downloaded from the following Intel websites:
For product documentation, go to the following Intel website: http://www.intel.com/support/
For product device drives and other software utilities, go to the following Intel website:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com
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1.1 About This Document ..................................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module General Features ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Benefits of the SAS Interface ....................................................................................................................................... 9
2.3 Benefits of the NVM Express (NVMe) Interface .................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module Features .................................................................................................................... 9
2.4.1 SAS Features ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4.2 SATA III Features ............................................................................................................................................................. 10
2.4.3 NVMe Interface Features ............................................................................................................................................. 10
2.4.4 Usability Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.4.5 Flexibility Features ......................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.5 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module Feature Set ........................................................................................................... 12
2.6 Data Protection Features ............................................................................................................................................ 13
2.7 Fault Tolerance Features ............................................................................................................................................. 14
2.8 Array Performance Features ...................................................................................................................................... 14
2.9 Drive Support Limits ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
2.10 Over temperature protection .................................................................................................................................... 15
3.3.3 Intel® RAID Module RMSP3HD080E Power Consumption ............................................................................ 28
4. Connectivity and Drive Support ................................................................................................................................................. 29
4.1 Connectivity and Drive Support ............................................................................................................................... 29
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4.3 SAS/SATA Drive Support ............................................................................................................................................ 30
4.4 Intel® 12 Gb/s SAS 3.0 Expander Support ........................................................................................................... 31
4.4.1 SAS Expander Configuration for the Intel® RMSP3AD160F RAID Module ............................................. 31
4.5 NVMe Drive Support ..................................................................................................................................................... 33
5.1.2 Packing List ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35
6. Safety and Regulatory (Class A) .................................................................................................................................................. 37
7.3 Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit Installation ................................................................................. 41
7.4 AXXRMFBU7 Mean time Between failres (MTBF) ............................................................................................. 43
7.5 Monitoring the Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit ......................................................................... 43
7.5.1 Monitoring the RMFBU with the Human Interface Infrastructure. ............................................................. 43
Appendix A. Glossary ......................................................................................................................................................................... 47
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List of Figures
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Figure 4.
Figure 5.
Figure 6.
Figure 7.
Figure 8.
Figure 9.
Figure 10. Intel®
Figure 11. Supported Intel® SAS expander options ................................................................................................................... 31
Figure 12. RAID module RMS3PAD160 SAS port domain identification ........................................................................... 31
Figure 13. SAS ports for the RES3FV288 ........................................................................................................................................ 32
Figure 14. SAS ports for the RES3TV360 ........................................................................................................................................ 32
Figure 15. Connecting the AXXCBL700HDCV to the backplane ........................................................................................... 33
Figure 16. Connecting the AXXCBL700HDCV cable to the RAID module ......................................................................... 34
Figure 17. Barrel standoff placement and installation .............................................................................................................. 35
Table 2. Data protection features ....................................................................................................................................................... 13
Table 3. Fault-tolerant features .......................................................................................................................................................... 14
Table 4. Array performance features ................................................................................................................................................ 14
Table 5. SAS/SATA drive support limits .......................................................................................................................................... 15
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1. Product Overview
The Intel® RAID Modules RMSP3AD160F, RMSP3CD080F, and RMSP3HD080E are part of the new family of
Intel® RAID modules. This new family of Tri-Mode RAID modules allow for creating RAID configurations with
SAS drives, SATA drives, or NVMe drives.
The Intel® RAID Modules RMSP3AD160F, RMSP3CD080F, and RMSP3HD080E are high-performance,
intelligent modules with RAID control capability. The Tri-Mode RAID Modules provide reliability, highperformance, and fault-tolerant drive subsystem management.
The Tri-Mode RAID modules are based on the LSI SAS IC technology and proven MegaRAID technology.
Intel offers a family of Tri-Mode RAID modules that address the needs for internal connectivity solutions as well
as low and high port count:
NOTE: The Intel Tri-Mode modules are designed to work on systems configured for optimized UEFI boot
mode. There is no built-in configuration utility for these modules when the system is configured for legacy
boot mode. There is no boot support if used in legacy mode. Some modules like RMSP3HD080E will not
work at all if used in legacy mode.
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2. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module General Features
2.1 Overview
The Intel® Tri-Mode modules include a SAS interface and an NVMe interface. Both share the same
connectors by multiplexing the data and sideband signals. As compared with the previous generation of Intel
RAID modules, the new Tri-Mode family offers increased performance by reducing latency, increasing IOPS,
increasing queue depth and increasing cache memory. They also offer NVMe drive support to allow doing
hardware RAID using these new technology drives.
2.2 Benefits of the SAS Interface
SAS is a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level device interface that leverages the proven SCSI protocol set.
SAS is a convergence of the advantages of SATA, SCSI, and Fiber Channel and the mainstay of the enterprise
and high-end workstation storage markets.
The SAS interface uses the SCSI command set to ensure reliable data transfers while providing the connectivity
and flexibility of point-to-point serial data transfers. The serial transmission of SCSI commands eliminates
clock-skew challenges. The SAS interface provides improved performance, simplified cabling, smaller
connectors, and lower pin count and power requirements when compared to the original parallel SCSI.
SAS controllers leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that is compatible with Serial
ATA (SATA) technology. The SAS protocols and the SATA III protocols use a common thin, 7-wire connector.
The SAS/SATA III connector and cable are easier to manipulate, allow connections to smaller devices, and do
not inhibit airflow. The point-to-point SATA III architecture eliminates inherent difficulties created by the legacy
ATA master-slave architecture while maintaining compatibility with existing ATA firmware.
2.3 Benefits of the NVM Express (NVMe) Interface
NVMe (non-volatile memory express) is a storage protocol created to accelerate the transfer of data with
solid-state drives (SSDs) by utilizing multiple PCIe connections. Benefits are increased bandwidth (up to
8Gb/s per lane), lower latency, increased efficiency, lower CPU utilization with multiple long command
queues and lower power.
2.4 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module Features
Next is an explanation of the features of the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Modules.
2.4.1 SAS Features
Characteristics of the SAS interface.
• Supports the following:
o 12 Gb/s, 6Gb/s, and 3Gb/s SAS data transfers per PHY.
o SMP communicating topology management information.
o SSP enabling communication with other SAS devices.
o STP enabling communication with SATA devices through an attached expander.
• Provides a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level storage interface.
• Simplifies cabling between devices.
• Provides a scalable interface that supports up to 240 devices through the use of expanders.
• Supports x2 through x8 wide ports that consist of two (2), four (4), or eight(8) PHYs within a single port.
• Supports narrow ports consisting of a single PHY
• Transfers data by using SCSI information units.
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2.4.2 SATA III Features
The SAS interface is compatible with SATA and it has the following characteristics.
•Supports the following:
o SATA III data transfers up to 6Gb/s.
o STP data transfers up to 6Gb/s.
• Provides a serial, point-to-point storage interface.
• Simplifies cabling between devices.
• Eliminates the master-slave construction used in parallel ATA.
• Permits addressing of multiple SATA targets through an expander.
2.4.3 NVMe Interface Features
The new NVMe interface has the following characteristics.
•Supports the following:
o Data transfers of 8Gb/s per lane (32 Gb/s when 4 PCIe lanes are being used).
o PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification,Revision 1.2.
o Active State Power Management, states, by placing links in a power-saving mode during times of
no link activity.
• Supports PCIe Hot Plug.
• Supports error handling.
• Provides high bandwidth per pin with low overhead and low latency.
• Supports lane reversal and polarity inversion.
2.4.4 Usability Features
The Tri-Mode RAID modules have the next usability characteristics.
• Drives spin-up sequencing control.
• Provides one (1) LED signal to indicate link activity for all PHYs through the motherboard for the
drive activity LED on the chassis.
• Supports the internal SAS sideband signal SFF-8485 (SGPIO) interface.
Note: LED signals indicate an error condition or drive activity. RAID modules support several blink patterns for
these LEDs, depending on the user configuration and storage enclosure. For information about the LED blink
patterns, contact the storage enclosure manufacturer.
2.4.5 Flexibility Features
The Tri-Mode RAID modules have the next flexibility characteristics.
• Flash ROM interface, a non-volatile static RAM (NVSRAM) interface.
• Flexible programming interface to tune I/O performance.
• Permit mixed connections to SAS targets or SATA III targets.
• Leverage-compatible connectors for SAS connections and SATA III connections.
• Permit grouping of up to eight (8) PHYs into a single SAS-wide port.
• Permit programming of the World Wide Name.
2.4.6 Drive Roaming
Drive roaming occurs when once a VD is already set up, some or all of the drives that are part of this VD are
manually changed to different ports on the same module. When this happens, the module detects the RAID
configuration from the configuration data on the drives.
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Configuration data is saved in both the NVRAM on the RAID module and on the drives attached to the module.
This feature maintains the integrity of the data on each drive, even if the drives have changed their physical
device ID. More information on how to use the drive roaming feature can be found on the Intel® RAID Software User Guide for full featured and entry level RAID controllers.
2.4.7 Drive Migration
The Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Module allow to move one VD from one module to another, this is called Drive
Migration. In other words, Drive Migration is the transfer of a set of drives in an existing configuration from one
module to another. In order to achieve this, there are some conditions: 1) The drives must remain on the same
channel. 2) The drives must be reinstalled in the same order as in the original configuration. 3) The module to
which the drives are migrated cannot have an existing configuration.
Note: When drives are migrated, move only the drives that make up the virtual drive (not all of the drives in a
drive group), so that an NVRAM mismatch error does not occur (provided a configuration is on the destination
module). The NVRAM mismatch error appears only when all of the drives are moved to the other module.
Note: Drive roaming and drive migration cannot be supported at the same time.
More information on how to use the drive migration feature can be found on the Intel® RAID Software User
Guide for full featured and entry level RAID controllers.
2.4.8 Safety Characteristics
All the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Modules meet or exceed the requirements of UL flammability rating 94 V0. Each
bare board is also marked with the supplier name or trademark, type, and UL flammability rating.
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