Management Options Using the Sun Storage 6Gb SAS REM HBA (SGX-SAS6-REM-Z)

The Sun Storage 6Gb SAS REM HBA (SGX-SAS6-REM-Z) is a SAS-2 RAID Expansion Module based on the LSI Fusion-MPT IR (Integrated RAID) technology. Includes LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) software, a command line interface (using SAS2IRCU or the BIOS-based LSI Configuration Utility). Basic management options include (refer to the MegaRAID documentation for a complete list):

Option/Task	LSI BIOS Config	MSM	CLI
Create/Delete RAID configuration (support for RAID levels 0, 1, and 10).	X	X	X
Set a boot device	X
Display and/or change status of a controller, an enclosure or a drive	X	X	Display status only
Activate IR volume (reactivate existing virtual drives, see note below)	X		X
Locate a drive	X	X	X
Upgrade REM firmware		X	X (SAS2Flash)
Save configurations to a file		X
Check data consistency	X	X	X
View events (disks and storage module voltage/temperature events)	X	X	X
Command scripting			X
Remote management		X	X

Note - If your REM fails, but the drives are good, you can install an identical replacement REM and import the existing virtual drive configurations. For information about importing existing virtual drives, see Importing Existing Virtual Drives to a Replacement REM.

Complete information for using the REM management software to perform storage module tasks is included in the LSI MegaRAID SAS Software User's Guide. This manual is available on the LSI support site at:

http://www.lsi.com/support/sun/

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