
2 Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide • March 2010
HBA Features
The Sun StorageTek SAS RAID Internal HBA (SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z) has the
following features:
Note – These features are supported by some operating systems but not others. For
more information, refer to the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide or
online Help.
■ Flash ROM to update the HBA firmware and BIOS using the BIOS Configuration
utility or the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager graphical user interface (For more
information, see the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide.)
■ Disk drive hot-plugging (See the HDD hot-plug guidelines in “Understanding
Hot-Plug Limitations and Conditions Within the BIOS RAID Configuration
Utility” on page 66.)
■ Event logging and broadcasting, including email and SNMP messages
■ The Sun StorageTek RAID Manager GUI, a BIOS-based utility, and a command-
line interface for creating and managing RAID arrays
■ Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware
■ A battery backup module
Array-Level Features
Note – These features are supported by some operating systems but not others. For
more information, refer to the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide or
online Help.
■ Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 10, 5, 5EE, 50, 6, 60, simple volume, spanned
volume, and RAID volume
■ Support for hot-spares (global and dedicated)
■ Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed
disk drive is replaced (applies to redundant arrays in SES2- or SAF-TE-enabled
disk drive enclosures
only)
■ Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives
can be used, even if the disk drives vary in size
■ Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without
recreating it
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