HP IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class Windows User Manual

HP IO Accelerator Version 3.2.3 Windows User Guide Abstract This document describes software requirements for all relevant HP IO Accelerators using

Introduction 10 enabling a total of two cards in a half-height server blade, and three cards in a full-height server blade and up to 6 in a double-h

Introduction 11 100GB of storage space, using various block sizes. The amount of RAM used in driver version 3.0 is significantly less than the amoun

Windows Server environments 12 Windows Server environments Installation overview CAUTION: The firmware for all IO Accelerator devices in a syste

Windows Server environments 13 recognizes those drivers for the IO Accelerator. This situation causes issues with the installation of Version 3.x. A

Windows Server environments 14 Using the Setup Wizard 1. Download the IO Accelerator installation program. The Welcome screen appears. 2. Click N

Windows Server environments 15 3. If you have a previous version of the IO Accelerator software installed, follow the directions on the screen to un

Windows Server environments 16 CAUTION: Changing the default features might affect the performance or functionality of the IO Accelerator software

Windows Server environments 17 The Configure Shortcuts screen appears. 6. If you want to accept the default program shortcuts, click Next. Otherwi

Windows Server environments 18 8. Click Finish to exit the Wizard and launch the IO Accelerator software. The installation program performs the

Windows Server environments 19 • Installs and loads the IO Accelerator Windows® driver. (When complete, you will need to reboot the system.) • Ins

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Windows Server environments 20 The –o overformat option is not supported in the 3.x.x VSL software. All upgraded HP IO Accelerator devices are forma

Windows Server environments 21 d. To select a different folder for the installation, browse to the folder and click OK. The default folder is C:\Pro

Windows Server environments 22 Manually installing on Windows Server 2003 The Windows® Driver Wizard automatically detects the new IO Accelerator an

Windows Server environments 23 Manually installing on Windows Server 2008 and 2012 The Windows Driver Wizard automatically detects the new IO Accele

Windows Server environments 24 CAUTION: Do not turn off the power during a firmware upgrade, because this might cause device failure. If a UPS is

Windows Server environments 25 CAUTION: Be sure to read the Release Notes document that comes with each new release as well as these installation

Windows Server environments 26 Your Windows® operating system now detects the devices in the RAID configuration with the upgraded software. Defragm

Windows Server environments 27 You can use the (optional) HP IO Accelerator Management Tool GUI program to check for outdated firmware. To check for

Windows Server environments 28 2. Expand HP StorageWorks IO Accelerators, and then double-click HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator. The Properties dialo

Windows Server environments 29 3. After the device is initialized, you can add partitions or volumes. For more information, see the Disk Management

Contents 3 Contents About this guide ...

Windows Server environments 30 NOTE: To use SNMP test mode, you must have installed the SNMP option with your PCIe IO Accelerator. Using te

Windows Server environments 31 SNMP test registry entry Description • formatting(8) • updating(9) • attach(10) • detach(11) • format(12) • upd

Windows Server environments 32 • cpqIoDimmInfoPCISlot • cpqIoDimmInfoWearoutIndicator • cpqIoDimmInfoFlashbackIndicator • cpqIoDimmInfoWritable

Windows Server environments 33 • cpqIoDimmExtnBytesReadL • cpqIoDimmExtnBytesWrittenU • cpqIoDimmExtnBytesWrittenL • cpqIoDimmExtnFormattedBlock

Windows Server environments 34 Option Description *x Extra debugging information *+ Append to existing log file *! Flush each line to the log ** Lo

Windows Server environments 35 1. Open the Installer project of your installation package. 2. Go to the Media page and select the Bootstrapper tab.

Windows Server environments 36 The following table lists common Event Log error messages, along with suggested solutions. Message Suggested soluti

Maintenance 37 Maintenance Maintenance tools The IO Accelerator includes both software utilities to maintain the device and external LED indicators

Maintenance 38 4. When you finish troubleshooting the driver issue, use the IO Accelerator Management Tool to attach the IO Accelerators and make th

Maintenance 39 CAUTION: If the PCIe slot is not capable of providing the needed amount of power, then enabling full power draw from the PCIe slot

Contents 4 Maintenance ...

Maintenance 40 fct2: SN:1149D0969-1121 fct3: SN:1149D0969-1111 In this example, 1149D0969 is the adapter serial number. If you have multiple IO Acce

Utilities 41 Utilities Utilities reference The IO Accelerator installation packages include various command line utilities, installed by default to

Utilities 42 If the IO Accelerator device is in minimal mode, then auto-attach is disabled until the cause of the device being in minimal mode is fi

Utilities 43 This utility captures the current state of the device. When a performance or stability problem occurs with the device, run the fio-bugr

Utilities 44 Option Description -e Enumerates configuration parameter names and values. -g <name> Gets the configuration parameter. -p <n

Utilities 45 Option Default (min/max) Description After the affinity is queried correctly, the driver sets the affinity of the adapter interrupt an

Utilities 46 IMPORTANT: Although the -f (force) option causes the IO Accelerator device to detach, even in a RAID setup, it is strongly recommende

Utilities 47 Option Description -y Auto-answer "yes" to all queries from the application (bypass prompts). fio-pci-check Description Ch

Utilities 48 Option Description -a Report all available information for each device. -e Show all errors and warnings for each device. This option

Utilities 49 Data Volume Information: If the -d option is used, then the following data volume information is reported in addition to the basic info

Contents 5 Introduction to performance and tuning ...

Utilities 50 fio-sure-erase CAUTION: Before using this utility, back up any important data. IMPORTANT: As a best practice, do not use thi

Utilities 51 Option Description -p Purge instead of Clear: Performs a write followed by an erase. Purging the device might take several hours to c

Utilities 52 Syntax fio-trim-config [options] Options Option Description -d Disable Trim on this computer. -e (Default) Enable Trim on this comput

Utilities 53 Option Description -f Force upgrade. Used primarily to downgrade to an earlier firmware version. If the IO Accelerator driver is not l

Monitoring IO Accelerator health 54 Monitoring IO Accelerator health NAND flash and component failure The IO Accelerator is a highly fault-tolerant

Monitoring IO Accelerator health 55 ... Media status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00%; Data: 99.12% Lifetime data volumes: ...Physical by

Monitoring IO Accelerator health 56 mode is evicted when write I/Os are returned from the device as failed. Catastrophic failures are detected and h

Trim support 57 Trim support Introduction to Trim Trim is used to address a unique property of solid state drives. The issue occurs when a user dele

Trim support 58 Starting and stopping Trim To start or stop the Trim service through the Windows® Services Manager: 1. Search for IO Accelerator Tr

Trim support 59 Trim configurations Trim can be used with the following configurations and features: • RAID volumes (mirrored, spanned, or striped

About this guide 6 About this guide Contents summary • Instructions on downloading and installing the approved driver and utilities • Instructions

Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 60 Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator Introduction to Windows page files This section

Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 61 On Windows® operating systems, NTFS will generally use a cluster size of 4K, so formatting to 51

Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 62 An alternate method to manage (enable or disable) paging support is to use the IO Accelerator Ma

Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 63 System drive paging file configuration By default, Windows® operating systems create and manage

Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 64 Verifying page file operation To verify that a page file is actively placed on an IO Accelerator

Performance and tuning 65 Performance and tuning Introduction to performance and tuning HP IO Accelerator devices provide high bandwidth and high IO

Performance and tuning 66 Setting NUMA affinity Servers with a NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture require special installation instructio

NUMA configuration 67 NUMA configuration Introduction to NUMA architecture Servers with NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture require specia

NUMA configuration 68 Advanced configuration example This example server has four NUMA nodes with eight hyper-threaded cores per node (16 logical pr

NUMA configuration 69 processors in the specified nodes. To fine tune the configuration, you can stipulate the hex mask in each <affinity specifi

Introduction 7 Introduction Overview Designed around ioMemory, a revolutionary storage architecture, HP IO Accelerator is an advanced NAND flash sto

Resources 70 Resources Subscription service HP recommends that you register your product at the Subscriber’s Choice for Business website (http://www

Support and other resources 71 Support and other resources Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call

Support and other resources 72 providers or service partners) identifies that the repair can be accomplished by the use of a CSR part, HP will ship

Support and other resources 73 Pour plus d'informations sur le programme CSR de HP, contactez votre Mainteneur Agrée local. Pour plus d'in

Support and other resources 74 HINWEIS: Einige Teile sind nicht für Customer Self Repair ausgelegt. Um den Garantieanspruch des Kunden zu erfüllen,

Support and other resources 75 sustituciones que lleve a cabo el cliente, HP se hará cargo de todos los gastos de envío y devolución de componentes

Support and other resources 76 Opcional – Peças cujo reparo feito pelo cliente é opcional. Essas peças também são projetadas para o reparo feito pel

Support and other resources 77

Support and other resources 78

Regulatory information 79 Regulatory information Safety and regulatory compliance For safety, environmental, and regulatory information, see Safety

Introduction 8 • QK762A: HP 785GB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class • QK763A: HP 1.2 TB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class IMP

Acronyms and abbreviations 80 Acronyms and abbreviations ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling

Acronyms and abbreviations 81 SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification SSD solid-state drive VM Virtual Machine VSL virtual storage laye

Documentation feedback 82 Documentation feedback HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs. To help us improve the documentat

Index 83 A about this guide 6 Adding a file system 28 authorized reseller 71 automated logging 35 B battery replacement notice 79 before y

Index 84 manual installation on Windows Server 21 monitoring IO Accelerator health 54 N naming 27 NAND flash and component failure 54 non-pa

Introduction 9 NOTE: MSI was disabled to obtain these statistics. Required operating environment The IO Accelerator is supported for use in th