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HP IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class Windows User's Manual

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1. Tot tut The installation program performs the following e Creates a folder for the IO Accelerator software components the default path is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Windows Server environments 18 e Installs and loads the IO Accelerator Windows driver When complete you will need to reboot the system e Installs support for SNMP if installed and if Microsoft SNMP is installed and the SNMP service is running When the installation program creates the IO Accelerator folder on the drive it also creates these sub folders e driver version gt Driver Installs manually using Device Manager e Firmware Contains the latest IO Accelerator firmware e SMI S Currently not used reserved for future SMI S use e SNMP Contains the SNMP components e Utils Contains the IO Accelerator command line utilities To continue installation go to Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 Upgrading device firmware trom VSL 1 x x or 2 x x to CES A CAUTION You cannot downgrade an HP IO Accelerator device firmware to an earlier version after you have upgraded the device A CAUTION Upgrading IO Accelerator devices that were previously configured for VSL 1 x x or 2 x x to work with VSL 3 x x requires a low level media format of the device No user data is maintained during the media format process Be sure to backup all data on your IO Accelerator device as instructed before upgrading the firmware
2. Version 3 1 x of the HP IO Accelerator VSL supports new features including the latest generation of IO Accelerator architecture and improved Flashback protection These features require the latest version of the firmware Every IO Accelerator device in a system running 3 1 x or later must be upgraded to the latest version of the firmware For example if you have a system running 2 3 1 HP IO Accelerator VSL with IO Accelerator devices previously installed and you want to install new IO Accelerator Gen2 devices that require the latest version of the firmware then you will need to upgrade all of the existing devices to the latest firmware version Upgrade path Depending on the current version of your HP IO Accelerator device to preserve the internal structure of the device you might have to perform multiple upgrades The following path is the minimum upgrade path that you must follow Upgrade the HP IO Accelerator VSL software on the system and upgrade the firmware to the compatible version in the following order 1 2 4 gt 1 2 7 gt 2 1 0 gt 2 2 3 gt 3 1 x For VSL upgrade information for the HP IO Accelerator see the HP IO Accelerator Release Notes on the HP website http www8 hp com us en support drivers html General upgrade instructions including the firmware update instructions are available in the HP IO Accelerator User Guide for each operating system Overformatting not supported Windows Server environments 19 Th
3. 17350 1 2 7 36867 or 42014 Supported hardware HP IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class BladeSystem c Class IO Accelerators have two distinct designs for the respective server product lines The G1 through G7 IO Accelerator adapter is provided in a c Class Type 1 Mezzanine card form factor It can be installed in both Type 1 and Type 2 mezzanine slots within the c Class blade G1 through G7 servers Introduction 9 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 high double wide server BL680c The Gen8 adapter is provided in a c Class Type B Mezzanine card form factor It can only be installed in Type B mezzanine slots within the Gen 8 or later servers enabling one IO Accelerator in a half height Gen8 server The Type mezz card and the Type B mezz card are distinguished by the mezzanine connector The type B card is slightly larger than a Type mezz card The amount of free RAM required by the driver depends on the size of the blocks used when writing to the drive The smaller the blocks the more RAM is required The table below lists the guidelines for each 80GB of storage For the latest information see the QuickSpecs sheet to the HP IO Accelerator for HP BladeSystem c Class at HP Customer Support http www hp com support The Remote Power Cut Module for the c Class blade mezzanine card provides a higher level of protection in the event o
4. After registering you will receive e mail notification of product enhancements new driver versions firmware updates and other product resources For more information For additional information see the following HP websites e HP BladeSystem technical resources http www hp com go bladesystem documentation white papers and support documents e HP BladeSystem components http h18004 www1 hp com products blades components c class compmatrix html e HP support http www hp com support Resources 70 Support and other resources Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call HP Active Health System log HP ProLiant Gen8 or later products Download and have available an Active Health System log for 3 days before the failure was detected For more information see the HP iLO 4 User Guide or HP Intelligent Provisioning User Guide on the HP website http www hp com go ilo docs Onboard Administrator SHOW ALL report for HP BladeSystem products only For more information on obtaining the Onboard Administrator SHOW ALL report see the HP website http h20000 www2 hp com bizsupport TechSupport Document jsp lang en amp cc us amp objectID c 02843807 Technical support registration number if applicable Product serial number Product model name and number Product identification number Applicable error messages Add on boards or hardware Third party hardware or so
5. i 29 Setting vp SNMP tor Windows operating systems ss ssssseesseisetisstissttis stts stis stias ttit ttts sisstin astr rste rareste n 29 SNMP details for Windows operating Systems inn dad doi 29 Using test mode registry ea 30 SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Severa aaa 31 lidia 33 Windows Installer logging api rara 33 Creating an ae ICT AA 34 Creating am uninstall E 34 Credting a UR 34 Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy anar eene eene vene neen vereen 39 Troubleshooting event log messages uaar 35 Contents 3 AA AM dp AA AA AA AA 37 Common AA 37 Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package nooo ncnonno erenneeenneersnneeennneen onee renenn 37 Disabling UG Atach calare 37 Enabling Auca src OC 38 Unmanaged shutdown ISSUES o 38 Enabling PEE power DYE NGEM yen ARA AA ARENES 38 Enabling the override parameter AN ANA NAG ani KAN AG 39 I E E A AE ONE OA O EO A AEE OAR NEA 41 Uli 41 dll 41 Ilan 42 Irpinia 42 O RO GR RR IR HA ARO 43 MA adi 44 AA A 45 MELO AA AA AA 46 O ENT 47 ie AA AA AA A 47 Mes aa ama O aaa TA 50 Met UTA SCI AA AA PAA 51 fio update iodrive i 52 Monitoring 1O A TE 54 NAND flash and component failure Ga 54 CERRO EE 54 Health monitoring techniques magana 0K AA AA ANA EEN Eed 54 Flashback substitution events AA AA AA 55 Software RAID and health monitoring sasa donas TAGAK PANGAN ABANGAN NANANA 55 LE A A 57 Introduction Lilia 57 et HORS A
6. CIO AA AA AA AA AA 6 Contents SUMMARY EEE 6 LL RR MCO 0 7 SOTTO RE EE a 7 dc RACE LL LIT PP RS E E R 7 EI genee TNT 8 Required operating Iron EE 9 Supported firmware revisions sise 9 Supported hardwares ss again e a 9 Wei ON lai 12 ESC ERRORE a di 12 Uninstalling a previously installed driver ss 12 Installing software on a Windows operating system 13 Usingthe Setup Wizard racer a 14 Upgrading device firmware from VSL La or 23X10 Fratini 19 Upgrading Proc dure annie 20 Manual installation on Windows Server ii is 21 Manually installing on Windows Server 2003 nono nononnncnnnnn conan ncnnancnnnnnnnnos 22 Manually installing on Windows Server 2008 and 2012 one nrnnneenoneeeennneeneneereneereneneenen 23 Upgrading the device firmware using Windows sssssssssessserissiisrirsretssetrsetesrtistttssstrseresrtisssessserssenssres sna 23 Viewing the firmware version ia 23 Performing the Upgrade moran italia 23 Upgrading driver software using Windows naam aisi 24 Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non RAID configuration i 24 Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID contourotton 25 Liggio 26 Silent install option ou dalai 26 Outdated eee 26 Enabling PCle fanale 27 lO Accelerator EE 27 Adding a file system formatting and performing multi disk configuration nono 28 ceglie 29 Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system
7. NOTE For PCle IO Accelerators using PCle slots greater than x4 does not improve performance NOTE The power cut feature is built into PCle IO Accelerators therefore no Remote Power Cut Module is necessary e 300LFM of airflow at no greater than 50 C To protect against thermal damage the IO Accelerator also monitors the junction temperature of its controller The temperature represents the internal temperature of the controller and it is reported in fio status report The IO Accelerator begins throttling write performance when the junction temperature reaches 78 C If the junction temperature continues to rise the IO Accelerator shuts down when the temperature reaches 85 C NOTE If you experience write performance throttling due to high temperatures see your computer documentation for details on increasing airflow including fan speeds e Sufficient RAM to operate The amount of RAM that the driver requires to manage the NAND flash varies according to the block size you select when formatting the device filesystem format not low level format For a virtual machine using an IO Accelerator directly using PCI pass through consult the user guide for the installed operating system The following table lists the amount of RAM required per Introduction 10 100GB of storage space using various block sizes The amount of RAM used in driver version 3 0 is significantly less than the amount used in version 1 2 x Average block size
8. 3 Uninstall the 2 x HP IO Accelerator VSL software pd aon 9 h Go to Start gt Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management Click Device Manager in the console tree at the left Expand the IO Accelerator Devices item Right click the desired IO Accelerator device Click Uninstall or Delete the driver software for this device depending on your version of Windows Restart the computer 4 Install the new VSL a Download the IO Accelerator installation program for Microsoft Windows from the HP website http www hp com support to your desktop or a convenient directory Run the IO Accelerator installation program The installation program presents a custom setup tree view with options for installation Mouse over a component in the tree view to see the description Click Next Windows Server environments 20 d To select a different folder for the installation browse to the folder and click OK The default folder is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator The uninstaller file is placed in the root of the HP IO Accelerator default install folder e Follow the onscreen prompts to complete the install f Choose Reboot Now on the finish screen of the installer For full installation instructions see Installing software on a Windows system Installing software on a Windows operating system on page 13 5 Update the firmware on each device to the latest version using fio updat
9. To query the current value run this command fio config g FIO PREALLOCATE MEMORY Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 61 Ana Tool lternate method to manage enable or disable paging support is to use the IO Accelerator Management NOTE You must reload the IO Accelerator driver for the new preallocation setting to take effect Typically this can be done by restarting the machine or using disable enable within Device Manager for each IO Accelerator instance Using the Windows System Properties to change paging file configuration requires a system restart before the properties are applied Therefore you can change both FIO_PREALLOCATE_MEMORY and the system page file configuration and then apply both with a single restart Windows page tile management By default the IO Accelerator driver disables support for page files The previous section described how to enable support for page files on one or more IO Accelerators The following section describes how to work with the built in Windows control panels to configure and set up paging files on IO Accelerators Setting up page files To set up page files in Windows operating systems 1 sa N In the Control Panel double click System On the Task pane click Advanced system settings On the Advanced tab click Settings The Performance Options dialog box opens On the Advanced tab click Change The Virtual Memory dia
10. 3 Run the Detach command for your device at the command prompt For example fio detach dev fct0 detaches the IO Accelerator labeled fcto a Specify the name of the drive you want to detach Each IO Accelerator is labeled dev fct where is its bus number b Use the fio status command at a command prompt to view this number The fio detach command shows a progress bar and percentage as it completes the operation 4 Type the following command at the command prompt fio update iodrive lt path gt ioaccelerator version fff d dev fct where lt path gt is the location of the IO Accelerator firmware the default is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Firmware and lt version gt is the numerical version of the driver higher is newer The d dev fct option identifies the IO Accelerator to update where is its bus number Use the fio status command at a command prompt to view this number All three external LED indicators light up during the update process 5 Restart the computer to finish the firmware upgrade Upgrading driver software using Windows Upgrading the driver software in Windows operating systems depends on whether you are using a non RAID or a RAID configuration Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non RAID configuration 1 See the Release Notes for your version of the driver for details on any additional steps to perform the upgrade Windows Server environments 24 GNG p kan wll
11. PCle Power limit threshold 24 75W Connected ioMemory modules Maintenance 39 fct2 SN 1149D0969 1121 fct3 SN 1149D0969 1111 In this example 1149D0969 is the adapter serial number If you have multiple IO Accelerator devices installed on your system use the fio beacon command to verify where each device is physically located o Inspect the adapter serial number labels on the IO Accelerator devices to determine the serial numbers However HP recommends confirming that each serial number is an adapter serial number by running the fio status command The adapter serial number label resides on the back of all HP ioDrive Duo devices and HP ioDrive2 Duo devices On ioDrive Duos the serial number is located on the PCB component that is attached to the PCle connector Set the module parameter for the fio config command line utility For example fio config p FIO EXTERNAL POWER OVERRIDE lt value gt Where the lt value gt for this parameter is a comma separated list of adapter serial numbers For example 1149D0969 1159E0972 24589 The p option makes the parameter persistent after reboot fio config dev fct lt x gt p PCIe GLOBAL SLOT POWER LIMIT 74750 Where lt x gt is the device number for the device relative to the lt value gt specified adapter serial number For example fio config dev fct2 p PCIe GLOBAL SLOT POWER LIMIT 74760 To enforce any parameter changes you must reboot or un
12. RAM usage for each 80 RAM usage for each 100 Minimum system RAM bytes GB IO Accelerator GB IO Accelerator requirement for 320 GB Megabytes Megabytes MezzlO Accelerator Average block size bytes For IO Accelerator use only Additional RAM is needed for system operating system and applications HP PCle IO Accelerator Duo requirements In addition to the IO Accelerator cooling and RAM requirements listed in the previous table the IO Accelerator Duo requires at least e A PCle Gen x8 slot or a PCle Gen2 x4 slot e A minimum of a full height half length slot with a x8 physical connection For systems with PCI 1 1 all eight signaling lanes must be active for full IO Accelerator Duo performance For systems with PCle 2 0 only four signaling lanes must be active for full performance NOTE With driver version 3 1 0 and later the driver detects in the BIOS if the PCle slot supports a 75W power draw If the slot supports up to 75W the IO Accelerator device draws up to that amount of power However if an external power cable is used power is only supplied by that cable To verify whether a slot is supplying 75W view the system logs or use the fio pci check utility Introduction 11 Windows Server environments Installation overview A CAUTION The firmware for all IO Accelerator devices in a system running HP IO Accelerator VSL 3 1 x or later must be upgraded to the latest version of the firmware CAUTION If you ha
13. Teile von HP vornehmen lassen m chten k nnen bei diesem Service je nach den f r Ihr Produkt vorgesehenen Garantiebedingungen zus tzliche Kosten anfallen Support and other resources 73 HINWEIS Einige Teile sind nicht f r Customer Self Repair ausgelegt Um den Garantieanspruch des Kunden zu erf llen muss das Teil von einem HP Servicepartner ersetzt werden Im illustrierten Teilekatalog sind diese Teile mit No bzw Nein gekennzeichnet CSR Teile werden abhangig von der Verf gbarkeit und vom Lieferziel am folgenden Gesch ftstag geliefert F r bestimmte Standorte ist eine Lieferung am selben Tag oder innerhalb von vier Stunden gegen einen Aufpreis verfigbar Wenn Sie Hilfe ben tigen k nnen Sie das HP technische Support Center anrufen und sich von einem Mitarbeiter per Telefon helfen lassen Den Materialien die mit einem CSR Ersatzteil geliefert werden k nnen Sie entnehmen ob das defekte Teil an HP zuriickgeschickt werden muss Wenn es erforderlich ist das defekte Teil an HP zur ckzuschicken m ssen Sie dies innerhalb eines vorgegebenen Zeitraums tun in der Regel innerhalb von f nf 5 Gesch ftstagen Das defekte Teil muss mit der zugeh rigen Dokumentation in der Verpackung zur ckgeschickt werden die im Lieferumfang enthalten ist Wenn Sie das defekte Teil nicht zur ckschicken kann HP Ihnen das Ersatzteil in Rechnung stellen Im Falle von Customer Self Repair kommt HP fir alle Kosten fiir die Lieferung und Ricksendung a
14. Windows Server 2008 R2 and it will not run when either of these is present No system changes are needed The IO Accelerator Trim service automatically shuts off if it is attempting to run on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or later operating system Using Trim Trim runs quietly in the background as a Windows Service a few minutes after the computer is started so as not to slow down the boot process However you can also fine tune Trim by using the configurable settings Trim support 57 Starting and stopping Trim To start or stop the Trim service through the Windows Services Manager 1 Search for IO Accelerator Trim Service 2 Click Start service or Stop service Stopping the service only stops it for that session Trim begins running again when the computer is restarted Enabling Trim 1 Open a registry editor 2 Navigate to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services fiodrive Parameters 3 Addthe TrimEnabled value as a DWORD see TrimEnabled below Stop and restart the Trim service or restart the computer TrimEnabled This registry value controls whether Trim runs regardless of the user starting and stopping Trim If this value is present and set to 1 then Trim runs normally unless you have stopped the service If this value is set to 0 then Trim does not run regardless of whether you have started the service If this valve is not present Trim runs unless you stop it
15. beacon Description The fio beacon utility turns on all three LEDs of the specified IO Accelerator for identification You must detach the IO Accelerator device and then run fio beacon This utility is not applicable for the mezzanine format of the IO Accelerator which has no externally visible LEDs Syntax fio beacon lt device gt options where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the device number Options Option Description Off Turns off the three LEDs E On default Lights the three LEDs Prints the PCI bus ID of the device at lt device gt to standard output Usage and error information might be written to standard output rather than to standard error fio bugreport Description Prepares a detailed report of the device for use in troubleshooting issues Utilities 42 This utility captures the current state of the device When a performance or stability problem occurs with the device run the fio bugreport utility and contact HP support http www hp com support for assistance in troubleshooting fio bugreport runs several information gathering utilities and combines the resulting data into a text file The results are saved in the utils directory default installation path is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Utils ina cab file that indicates the date and time the utility was run NOTE If the utility recommends
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18. on the replacement device not the existing good device before rebuilding the RAID HP recommends that you do not use a RAIDS configuration Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system To safely use the IO Accelerator as swap space you must use the fio config utility to pass a special pre allocation parameter For example fio config p FIO PREALLOCATE MEMORY 1072 4997 6710 10345 where 1072 4997 6710 10345 are serial numbers obtained from fio status Be sure to use serial numbers for the IO Accelerator modules and not the adapter A AK sector size format is required for swap This reduces the driver memory footprint A CAUTION You must have 400MB of free RAM per 80GB of IO Accelerator capacity formatted to 4KB block size to enable the IO Accelerator with pre allocation enabled for swap Attaching an IO Accelerator with pre allocation enabled and insufficient RAM might result in the loss of user processes and system instability Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems Use the following procedures to set up SNMP for Windows operating systems SNMP details for Windows operating systems You can set up a test mode with your IO Accelerator Windows SNMP agent Doing so enables you to set test values in a Windows registry and force SNMP traps without having to create the actual conditions on the device For example you can use the SNMP test mode to change the non writeable indicator a
19. reproduce the crash scenario e Create a minimal size page file on the system boot drive The recommended minimum size is 16MB although the operating system might warn that a minimum 400MB page file is needed e Create a page file large enough for a full kernel memory dump This typically requires a page file at least the size of installed RAM with some recommending the size equal to RAM x 1 5 To view or change the crash dump configuration 1 Go to the System Properties dialog box 2 Click the Advanced tab 3 In the Startup and Recovery section click Settings The Startup and Recovery dialog box opens 4 In the System Failure section you can change settings to handle the system log restart and debugging information Guaranteeing minimum committable memory If you enable System managed size or set a Custom size in the Virtual Memory dialog box do so with care If the initial size is less than the desired amount of committable virtual memory this size might cause an application to have memory allocation failures if the amount of committed memory exceeds the currently allocated page file size or the initial size value When committed memory exceeds the current page file size a request to allocate additional memory will fail The Windows Virtual Memory manager will slowly increase the size of the paging file up to the available size of its drive or to the Maximum size custom setting whichever is smaller If you want to use a lar
20. software When the driver installation completes the following message appears The wizard has finished installing the software for ioMemory VSL Device To continue installation see Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 Windows Server environments 22 Manually installing on Windows Server 2008 and 2012 The Windows Driver Wizard automatically detects the new IO Accelerator and begins to locate its driver after you restart the system First the OS prompts you to locate the software driver Browse for driver software on your computer Search for driver software in this location C Program Files Fusion io Oriver Y Include subfolders Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer This list will show installed driver software compatible with the device and all driver software in the same category as the device 1 Click Browse next to the path field A file dialog box appears 2 Select the folder that contains the IO Accelerator driver The default is C Program Files HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Drivers 3 Click OK 4 Click Next The correct driver installs the device software 5 When the driver installation completes restart the computer 6 To continue installation see Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 Upgrading the device firmware using Windows A CAUTION Upgrade the device firmware only if the System Event Log reports out of date firmware or
21. syntax explanation below Syntax The following is an example of how to configure 10 HP IO Accelerator ioDrive Duo devices each with two IO Accelerator devices in a HP DL580 G7 system manually as described in the preceding paragraphs Slot 1 is a Generation 1 PCle slot so it is not compatible with an ioDrive Duo device Therefore you can fill slots 2 11 with ioDrive Duo devices Because each ioDrive Duo device has two IO Accelerator devices each ioDrive Duo devices has two device numbers one for each IO Accelerator device Each slot has two device numbers The following tables list the default BIOS NUMA node assignments BIOS assigned PCle slots FCT device numbers Processor Affinity NUMA node e CU 8 9 13 14 18 19 23 24 28 29 All processors in the node None 2 2 6 135 136 140 141 145 146 150 151 All processors in the node 155 156 3 None None None Assigned PCle slots FCT device numbers Processor Affinity NUMA node 8 9 13 14 18 19 All processors in the node no hex mask 10 11 23 24 28 29 All processors in the node no hex mask 135 136 140 141 All processors in the node no hex mask 6 7 H D 2 145 146 150 151 155 156 All processors in the node no hex mask In this example the BIOS creates a load imbalance by assigning the cards to only two NUMA nodes in the system To balance the work load enter the following settings To configure the IO Accelerator driver with these override settings run fio conf
22. the HP DL980 server On servers with NUMA architecture during system boot the BIOS on some systems will not distribute PCle slots evenly among the NUMA nodes Each NUMA node contains multiple CPUs This imbalanced distribution means that during high workloads half or more of the CPUs will remain idle while the rest are 100 utilized To prevent this imbalance you must manually assign IO Accelerator devices equally among the available NUMA nodes Configuring the IO Accelerator devices for servers with NUMA architecture requires the use of the FIO AFFINTIY parameter with the fio config utility FIO_AFFINITY parameter The FIO AFFINITY parameter is a list of lt affinity specification gt triplets that specify the affinity settings of all adapters in the system Each item in the triplet is separated by a comma and each triplet set is separated by a semicolon Syntax fio config p FIO AFFINITY lt affinity specification gt lt affinity specification gt Where each lt affinity specification gt has the following syntax lt fct number gt g n lt group or node number gt lt hex mask gt If there is no g or n character before the group or node number then the number is assumed to be a group number The hex mask is optional If it is not present the mask is assumed to be Oxf ffffffffffffffF Also the Ox prefix is optional If the hex mask is a node mask then the mask is relative to the node not the group to which the no
23. to have the drive usable as swap space For example fio config dev fct0 p FIO PREALLOCATE MEMORY 1234 543211 where 1234 and 54321 are serial numbers obtained from fio status When WIN DISABLE ALL AFFINITY is set to O the driver will enable interrupt and worker thread affinity in the driver When WIN DISABLE ALL AFFINITY is set to 1 the driver will disable all affinity settings This is an override of any other affinity settings The driver must be reloaded for this parameter to take effect When WIN DISABLE DEFAULT NUMA AFFINITY is set to O during initialization the driver will query the Windows operating system for the affinity settings assigned to the adapter by the OS This setting is known as the default NUMA affinity Utilities 44 Default Description min max After the affinity is queried correctly the driver sets the affinity of the adapter interrupt and associated worker threads to the default operating system setting This action has the effect of setting the affinity of the interrupt and worker threads to all processors on a single NUMA node in the system When WIN DISABLE DEFAULT NUMA AFFINITY is set to 1 the driver will ignore the affinity settings assigned to the adapter by the OS The driver must be reloaded for this parameter to take effect FIO AFFINITY N A FIO AFFINITY is a list of lt affinity specification gt triplets to specify the affinity settings of
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25. view this bus number use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status The fio sure erase syntax works on individual IO Accelerator devices For example if you are planning to purge an IO Accelerator Duo device you must perform this operation on each of the IO Accelerator devices Options If fio sure erase is run with no options a Clear operation is performed Utilities 50 Description Purge instead of Clear Performs a write followed by an erase Purging the device might take several hours to complete depending on the size of the device No confirmation Does not require a yes no response to execute the utility Quiet Do not display the status bar Clear support A Clear is the default state of running fio sure erase with no options and is the act of performing full low level erase every cell pushed to 1 of the entire NAND media including retired erase blocks Metadata that is required for operation will not be destroyed media event log erase counts physical bytes read written performance and thermal history but any user specific metadata will be destroyed A Clear operation performs the following 1 Creates a unity map of every addressable block this allows fio sure erase to address every block including previously unmapped bad blocks Performs an erase cycle for each block every cell is pushed to 1 Restores the bad block map Formats the device to make the device usable again The utility era
26. with a name of this form MSI LOG NOTE Do not leave this option active because every install or uninstall operation on an msi file will create a new log This action results in unnecessarily occupied disk space and makes your system crowded Only use this option for debugging purposes The logging policy is particularly useful for troubleshooting Active Directory and Group Policy deployments In these cases the installation is carried out without a user interface and you cannot specify a command line for the msi Troubleshooting event log messages The Windows System Event Log displays fiodrive messages concerning the IO Accelerator These messages can be either informational and warnings NOTE Each IO Accelerator is numbered from 0 upwards These numbers reflect the bus number where you installed the device Use the IO Accelerator Management Tool to view this number for your device To open the Windows Event Viewer Click Start Right click Computer and select Manage from the list Expand System Tools Expand Event Viewer Expand Windows Logs Po N di Select System Windows Server environments 35 The following table lists common Event Log error messages along with suggested solutions Suggested solution Error ioDrive x firmware is too old The firmware must be updated Error The ioDrive x initialization failed with error code 0xerrorcode where errorcode isa number which might vary
27. wll PRS Z CAUTION Be sure to read the Release Notes document that comes with each new release as well as these installation instructions to ensure no loss of data when performing upgrades Follow the steps in Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver uninstall the existing driver Download the latest driver from the HP website http www hp com support Either unzip or run the Windows package to copy the files to a convenient directory Go to Start gt Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management In the console tree at the left click Device Manager Expand HP IO Accelerators Select System Devices with pre 2 1 drivers Right click an IO Accelerator Click Update Driver Software If necessary see Manual installation on Windows Server on page 21 for details on the remaining steps to install the updated driver The Windows operating system now detects your IO Accelerator Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID contiguration 1 NG u 11 See the Release Notes for your version of the driver for details on any additional steps to perform the upgrade AN CAUTION Be sure to read the Release Notes document that comes with each new release as well as these installation instructions to ensure no loss of data when performing upgrades Shut down any applications that are accessing the IO Accelerator devices Open the IO Accelerator Utilities folder The default location for t
28. A ete ia o eta e o 57 Using TTI ITC 57 suini 58 Enabling ee 58 Controlling Trim reas 58 liege 59 Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 60 Introduction to Windows page E 60 Configuring IO Accelerator paging SUpport sites lirica 60 O i ie aa NARE EATE NAAN GAAN BINAN LAG GAL 60 Non paged memory pool mesias pi meme NANANG 61 Enabling and disabling paging SUP ia 61 Windows page file EE 62 Setting Up AA 62 System drive paging file configuration lrn 63 Guaranteeing minimum committable memory nono nncnonnccnnnnrcnn nn rca nc cnnnncn 63 Verifying page file operadas aaa 64 Virtual Memory performance iii En 64 eee 65 Contents 4 Introduction to performance and tuning paaa GAGA ire 65 BERE REA AA NAT 65 limiting APE He 65 Setting NUMAN datacenters 66 Setting the interrupt handler affinity int is 66 RUMA conio uio AA ANAKAN ld AO 67 Introduction to NUMA architecture nana na GG Ga 67 FIO AFFINITY parameter GN BIGA GANG ti 67 Advanced configuration example A Nidos 68 Cheering te log areale 69 dende nt 70 Subscription service sansunessnnensenernnserenensnervenseneenenswnvenenennverensneneesens enteren ontenensnensesensensenessontenresn 70 For more ANON anna AA AA e 70 PURA Gite oher AR A 71 Before you contact AP NAG aaa ari 71 HP contact INNO MON Napa NAAN ANA NAA a RE A PR 71 Customer Self Repair ii ia EE rale 71 Regulatory ON rasa ni EIDIN RIENNON EIENEN 79 Safety and reg
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30. Accelerator 64 Performance and tuning Introduction to performance and tuning HP IO Accelerator devices provide high bandwidth and high IOPS and are specifically designed to achieve low latency As IO Accelerator devices improve in IOPS and low latency the device performance may be limited by operating system settings and BIOS configuration To take advantage of the revolutionary performance of IO Accelerator devices you might have to tune these settings While IO Accelerator devices generally perform well out of the box this section describes some of the common areas where tuning may help achieve optimal performance Disabling DVFS DVFS is a power management technique that adjusts the CPU voltage and frequency to reduce power consumption by the CPU These techniques help conserve power and reduce the heat generated by the CPU but they adversely affect performance while the CPU transitions between low power and high performance states These power savings techniques are known to have a negative impact on I O latency and maximum IOPS When tuning for maximum performance you might benefit from reducing or disabling DVSF completely even though this might increase power consumption DVFS if available should be configurable as part of your operating systems power management features as well as within your system BIOS interface Within the operating system and BIOS DVFS features are often found under the ACPI sections Consult your c
31. Error The ioDrive x was not attached Use the fio attach utility to rebuild the drive Warning The ioDrive x was not attached because auto attach is disabled To update the firmware see Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 1 Reinstall the Windows driver 2 Remove and reseat the IO Accelerator device 3 Remove the IO Accelerator and insert it in a different slot This error might appear after an unmanaged shutdown You can use either the fio attach command line utility or HP IO Manager to re attach the IO Accelerator This attach process might take up to ten minutes as the utility performs a consistency check on the drives The IO Accelerator must attach to the Windows operating system to be available to users and applications This attach normally occurs at boot time As part of this attach process the IO Accelerator driver verifies the presence of an AutoAttach parameter in the Windows registry If you create this Registry parameter to disable auto attach the attach operation does not complete To attach an unattached IO Accelerator Run the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool Select your unattached IO Accelerator from the Device Tree Click Attach Confirm the Attach operation Your IO Accelerator now attaches to the Windows operating system To re enable auto attach at boot time see Enabling auto attach Enabling Autoattach on page 38 Windows Server environments 36 Main
32. HOTO MocTaHoBom Ka0imery Minictpis Yxpainu sia 3 rpvana 2008 Ne 1057 Warranty information HP ProLiant and X86 Servers and Options http www hp com support ProLiantServers Warranties HP Enterprise Servers http www hp com support EnterpriseServers Warranties HP Storage Products http www hp com support Storage Warranties HP Networking Products http www hp com support Networking Warranties Regulatory information 79 Acronyms and abbreviations ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling FAT file allocation table OPS input output operations per second LEB Logical Erase Block LFM linear feet per minute MIB management information base MSI Message Signaled Interrupt NAND Not AND NTFS NT File System NUMA Non Uniform Memory Architecture PCle peripheral component interconnect express Acronyms and abbreviations 80 SMI S Storage Management Initiative Specification SSD solid state drive VM Virtual Machine VSL virtual storage layer Acronyms and abbreviations 81 Documentation feedback HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs To help us improve the documentation send any errors suggestions or comments to Documentation Feedback mailto docsfeedback hp com Include the document title and part number version number or the URL when submitting your feedback Documentation feedb
33. HP IO Accelerator Version 3 2 3 Windows User Guide Abstract This document describes software requirements for all relevant HP IO Accelerators using Microsoft Windows operating systems This document is intended for system administrators who plan to install and use HP IO Accelerators with a Microsoft Windows operating system It is helpful to have previous experience with HP IO Accelerators and a Microsoft Windows operating system This user guide is intended for IO Accelerator software release 3 2 3 or later Part Number 647099 003 February 2013 Edition 3 Copyright 2011 2013 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Confidential computer software Valid license from HP required for possession use or copying Consistent with FAR 12 211 and 12 212 Commercial Computer Software Computer Software Documentation and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U S Government under vendor s standard commercial license Microsoft Windows Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows Server are U S registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Contents
34. The TrimEnabled valve persists across sessions so if you restart the computer and set this value to 0 Trim does not run when the computer is restarted Controlling Trim aggressiveness You can control how aggressive the Trim service is The default settings for Trim minimize impact on computer performance while enabling the IO Accelerators to perform optimally However if a drive is being used with a write intensive application then you can set Trim to be more aggressive To do this you must add registry entries 1 Open a registry editor 2 Navigate to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services fiodrive Parameters 3 Add the TrimTimeDelayInSeconds value as a DWORD see the TrimTimeDelayInSeconds description below 4 Add the BitmapRetrievalDelayInMilliseconds value as a DWORD see the BitmapRetrievalDelayInMilliseconds description below 5 Stop and restart the Trim service or restart the computer TrimTimeDelayInSeconds This registry value controls how quickly Trim starts running again after it has finished processing all the volumes on a system For example if this value is set to 600 10 minutes in seconds then Trim will process all the volumes on a system sleep for 10 minutes and then process the volumes again and continue this cycle This value can be any number between O and 4 294 967 295 If this value is not set or present in the registry then Trim assumes a default of 900 seconds or 15 mi
35. Windows Server 2008 and Yista go to Control Panel Programs and Features lt Back Nets cancel Windows Server environments 14 3 If you have a previous version of the IO Accelerator software installed follow the directions on the screen to uninstall it Otherwise click Next The Select Installation Folder screen appears 2 HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Setup Bisi x Select Installation Folder This is the folder where HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator will be installed To install in this Folder click Next To install to a different Folder enter it below or click Browse Folder C Program Files HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Browse lt Back next gt Cancel 4 If you want to use the default installation location C Program Files HP IO Accelerator click Next If you want to change the default location click Browse navigate to the folder you want and then click Next The Custom Setup screen appears te HP IO Accelerator Setup Click the icons in the tree below to change the way features will be installed Hardware device driver and components This feature requires OKB on your hard drive It has 2 of 2 subfeatures selected The subfeatures require 89MB on your hard drive Location C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Browse Reset Diskusage Back Net cancel 5 If you want to use the default program features for the installation clic
36. a Quiet Disables the display of the progress bar and percentage Utilities 45 We IMPORTANT Although the force option causes the IO Accelerator device to detach even in a RAID setup it is strongly recommended to take the drives volume offline using the Windows Disk Management plug in and then perform the detach Forcing the detach may result in loss of data Notes Attempting to detach an IO Accelerator device might fail with an error indicating that the device is busy This might occur if the device is part of a software RAID 0 1 5 volume The Windows operating system refuses the request to detach the drive associated with the IO Accelerator device because it is part of a RAID volume and might cause the volume to fail This does not occur with simple volumes such as a single IO Accelerator device To detach a simple volume take the volume offline using the Disk Management MMC plug in application fio format Description The fio format command performs a low level format of the IO Accelerator This format is different from a format performed by the operating system The utility displays a progress bar and percentage as it completes the format The IO Accelerator ships pre formatted so you only have to run the fio format command if you must change the logical size of the device A CAUTION Use this utility with care since it deletes all user information on the IO Accelerator Syntax fio format lt device gt opt
37. ack 82 Index A about this guide 6 Adding a file system 28 authorized reseller 71 automated logging 35 battery replacement notice 79 before you contact HP 71 C checking for outdated firmware 26 configuring IO Accelerator paging support 60 configuring RAID 29 contact information 71 contacting HP 71 contents summary 6 controlling Trim aggressiveness 58 creating a patch install log 34 creating an installation log 34 creating an uninstall log 34 CSR customer self repair 71 customer self repair CSR 71 D defragmentation 26 disabling auto attach 37 disabling DVFS 65 disabling paging support 61 documentation feedback 82 enabling auto attach 38 enabling paging support 61 Enabling PCle power 27 enabling PCle power override 38 enabling Trim 58 error messages 69 European Union notice 79 F FIO AFFINITY parameters 44 67 fio attach utility 41 fio beacon utility 42 fio bugreport utility 42 fio config options 44 fio config utility 43 fio detach utility 45 fio format utility 46 fio pci check utility 47 fio status utility 47 fio sure erase utility 50 fio trim config utility 51 fio update iodrive utility 52 firmware version 23 firmware upgrading 19 20 flashback substitution events 55 For more information 70 formatting a file system 28 G guaranteeing minimum committable memory 63 H health metrics 54 health monitoring techniques 54 HP Subscriber s Choice for Business 70 HP technical sup
38. all adapters in the system Each item in the triplet is separated by a comma and each triplet set is separated by a semicolon For more information on using this parameter see NUMA configuration on page 67 fio detach Description Detaches and removes the corresponding dev fctx IO Accelerator block device The fio detach command waits until the device completes all read write activity before executing the detach process The command displays a progress bar and percentage as it completes the process NOTE Before using this utility be sure that the device you want to detach is not currently mounted and in use Syntax fio detach lt device gt options where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the IO Accelerator For example the name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system To view this bus number use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status You can specify multiple IO Accelerator devices For example dev fct1 dev fct2 indicates the devices installed in PCle Buses 1 and 2 in your Windows operating system Options Pea pers E Force Causes an immediate detach does not save metadata Immediate Causes a forced immediate detach does not save metadata This will fail if the device is in use by the OS l
39. ator software Select Remove Reboot the server and then log in as a user with Administrative privileges If previous downrev drivers such as driver files fiodrive sys exist on the system typically located in C Windows System32 drivers after you have uninstalled the software then upon reboot Windows Windows Server environments 12 recognizes those drivers for the IO Accelerator This situation causes issues with the installation of Version 3 x After the software is uninstalled and the system is rebooted Windows operating systems display a New Hardware Found message and normally do not find a driver for the new device If a driver is found go to Control Panel gt Device Manager and search for HP IO Accelerator View the driver details and check the revision of the driver If the HP IO Accelerator appears in the Device Manager and the driver revision is not 3 x or later manually uninstall the driver for each IO Accelerator in the system and then reboot the system If no driver is available the HP IO Accelerator appears in the Device Manager as a mass storage controller The system must be in this state before you install the 3 x software Installing sottware on a Windows operating system 1 Complete the hardware installation Log in to your computer as Administrator or have Administrator rights 3 Download the Windows IO Accelerator installation program from the HP website http www hp com support to your deskto
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41. de belongs Simple example fio config p FIO AFFINITY 4 n1 0xf 5 n0 7 g1 9 g2 0xff0 This command creates the following Device Node Group Processor Affinity Processors O to 3 in the node mask 0x All processors in the node no hex mask All processors in the group no hex mask Processors 4 to 11 in the group mask 0x 0 NUMA configuration 67 Advanced configuration example This example server has four NUMA nodes with eight hyper threaded cores per node 16 logical processors per node a total of 64 logical processors in the system This system also uses the expansion configuration and has 11 PC le expansion slots During system boot the system BIOS assigns PC le slots 1 6 to NUMA node 2 and PCle slots 7 11 to NUMA node 0 NUMA nodes 1 and 3 have no assigned PCle slots This configuration creates a load balancing problem in the system when IO Accelerator devices are under heavy traffic During these periods of high use half of the processors in the system sit idle while the other half of the processors are 100 utilized thus limiting the throughput of the IO Accelerator devices To avoid this situation you must manually configure the affinity of the IO Accelerator devices using the FIO AFFINITY configuration parameter to distribute the work load across all NUMA nodes This parameter overrides the default behavior of the IO Accelerator driver For more information about the FIO AFFINITY configuration parameter refer to the
42. e o overformat option is not supported in the 3 x x VSL software All upgraded HP IO Accelerator devices are formatted to the maximum advertised capacity regardless of whether the device was overformatted prior to the upgrade Upgrading procedure Be sure to follow the upgrade path and make sure that all previously installed IO Accelerator devices are updated with the appropriate 2 3 1 compatible firmware 1 Prepare each existing IO Accelerator device for upgrade a A Backup user data on each IO Accelerator device CAUTION Upgrading IO Accelerator devices that were previously configured for VSL 1 x x or 2 x x to work with VSL 3 x x requires a low level media format of the device No user data is maintained during the media format process Be sure to backup all data on your IO Accelerator device as instructed before upgrading the firmware Do not back up the data onto another IO Accelerator device on the same system The backup must be to a local disk or to an externally attached volume Run the fio bugreport command line utility and save the output The output captures the device information for each device in the system This device information will be useful in troubleshooting any upgrade issues For example fio bugreport Detach the ioDrive devices For example fio detach dev fct For more information see fio detach on page 45 2 Unload the current IO Accelerator driver For example S modprob r iomemory vsl
43. e iodrive A CAUTION Do not turn off the power during a firmware upgrade because this might cause device failure If a UPS is not in place consider adding one to the system before performing a firmware upgrade For all warnings alerts and options pertaining to this command utility see fio update iodrive Sample syntax fio update iodrive lt iodrive version fff gt Where lt iodrive version fffv is the path to the firmware archive This command updates all of the devices to the selected firmware To update specific devices consult the utility reference for more options 6 Reboot the system If you run the fio status command a warning appears indicating that the upgraded devices are missing a lebmap This is a customary warning and the issue will be corrected in the next step 7 Format each device using fio format For example fio format devices A CAUTION Use this utility with care since it deletes all user information on the IO Accelerator You are prompted to confirm that you want to erase all data on the device The format might take an extended period of time depending on the wear on the device 8 Attach all lO Accelerator devices For example fio attach dev fct 9 Verify the status of all devices using fio status For example fio status a Your IO Accelerator devices are now upgraded for this version of the HP IO Accelerator You can now install any IO Accelerator Gen2 devices Manual installa
44. e specific bus number for your installation You can also use IO Accelerator Management Tool to view this number Adding a file system formatting and performing multi disk configuration If you want to use a standard file system such as NTFS you can create and format partitions using standard disk management utilities For example to initialize the IO Accelerator 1 From the Start Menu select Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management and then from the Storage branch of the tree select Disk Management 2 Find the IO Accelerator in the list of storage devices right click it and then select Initialize Disk Windows Server environments 28 3 After the device is initialized you can add partitions or volumes For more information see the Disk Management documentation You can create dynamic volumes which can be used in multi disk RAID configurations spanned striped or mirrored For more information see the Disk Management documentation Creating a RAID configuration You can use your IO Accelerator as part of a RAID configuration To do so you must format the IO Accelerator as a dynamic volume You can then use this dynamic volume to create multi disk RAID configurations spanned striped or mirrored For specific steps to perform a RAID configuration see the Windows Disk Management Utility documentation NOTE If you are using RAID mirroring and one device fails enter the fio format command
45. ement Tool Attach function Although data written to the IO Accelerator is not lost due to unmanaged shutdowns important data structures might not have been properly committed to the drive This consistency check repairs these data structures Enabling PCle power override For PCle IO Accelerators if you have installed any dual IO Accelerator devices such as the HP ioDrive2 Duo then the device might require additional power than the minimum 25 W provided by PCle Gen2 slots to properly function Even if additional power is not required for your device all dual IO Accelerator devices that receive additional power might benefit with improved performance HP ioDrive2 Duo devices must have additional power to properly function For more information on which devices require additional power see the HP PCIe IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers Installation Guide Additional power can be provided in two ways e External power cable This cable ships with all dual ioMemory devices For information on installing this cable see the HP PCle IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers Installation Guide NOTE When a power cable is used all of the power is drawn from the cable and no power is drawn from the PCle slot e Enablingfullslot power draw Some PCle slots provide additional power often up to 75 W of power If your PCle slot is rated to provide at least 55 W then you can allow the device to draw full power from the PCle slot by setting a VSL m
46. en the firmware is outdated o If the firmware listed for any device is a lower number than the latest firmware version as noted in the release notes then the firmware is old but not outdated 2 If the firmware is old or outdated update it using the fio update iodrive utility Checking by using the optional GUI interface Windows Server environments 26 You can use the optional HP IO Accelerator Management Tool GUI program to check for outdated firmware To check for outdated or old firmware 1 Launch the lO Accelerator Management Tool application and look for any devices that have a warning symbol To ensure that the alert is from outdated firmware click any devices with a warning symbol Select all devices requiring firmware update and use the IO Accelerator Management Tool to update the firmware For details see the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool User Guide To check for old but not outdated firmware 1 Find the name of the latest firmware version as noted in the release notes 2 Use the IO Accelerator Management Tool application to check the firmware version of each IO Accelerator device against the latest firmware version For instructions on how to update the firmware see the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool User Guide Enabling PCle power For PCle IO Accelerators if you have installed any dual IO Accelerator devices such as the HP ioDrive2 Duo then the device might require additional power than the mini
47. f a catastrophic power loss for example a user accidentally pulls the wrong server blade out of the slot The Remote Power Cut Module ensures in flight writes are completed to NAND flash in these catastrophic scenarios Without the Remote Power Cut Module write performance is slower Writes are not acknowledged until the data is written to the NAND module thereby slowing performance When the Remote Power Cut Module is installed writes are acknowledged by the IO Accelerator controller to the driver The IO Accelerator controller then completes the write to the NAND module The IO Accelerators QK761A QK762A and K763A for Gen 8 BladeSystem c Class have the power cut functionality embedded on the card They offer the protection without requiring the remote power cut module NOTE The Remote Power Cut Module is used only in the AJ878B and BK836A models Without the Remote Power Cut Module write performance is slower HP PCle IO Accelerator minimum requirements e An open PCI Express slot The accelerator requires a minimum of one half length half height slot with a x4 physical connector All four lanes must be connected for full performance HP PCle IO Accelerator Duo requires a minimum of a full height half length slot with an x8 physical connection If your system is using PCI 1 1 all x8 signaling lanes must be connected for full performance If your system is using PCI 2 0 for full performance you only have to connect x4 signaling lanes
48. f the HP IO Accelerator previously installed you must uninstall it first You must manually reboot the computer after installing the new version with the silent install option This step must be performed prior to using any HP IO Accelerator utilities or functionality If you are installing remotely or with scripts you can use the silent install option quiet when you run the installation program in the command line interface In the command line interface navigate to the folder that contains the exe installer file and then run the following command lt installname gt exe quiet Where lt installname gt exe is the name of the installer file This option installs the HP IO Accelerator using the default settings and eliminates the need to click Next or select settings during installation Installing components The default command line installation installs the HP IO Accelerator including the command line utilities and the firmware file You can add additional components using the following command lt installname gt exe quiet ADDLOCAL SNMP SDK SMIS Remove any component and leading or trailing comma that you do not want to install Performing a silent uninstall You can silently uninstall the HP IO Accelerator with this command lt installname gt exe uninstall quiet Outdated firmware check Checking by using the command line interface 1 Run fio status and examine the output o If any device is in minimal mode th
49. frepair Reparo feito pelo cliente Os produtos da HP s o projetados com muitas pe as para reparo feito pelo cliente CSR de modo a minimizar o tempo de reparo e permitir maior flexibilidade na substitui o de pe as com defeito Se durante o periodo de diagn stico a HP ou fornecedores parceiros de servi o da HP concluir que o reparo pode ser efetuado pelo uso de uma pega CSR a peca de reposic o ser enviada diretamente ao cliente Existem duas categorias de pecas CSR Obrigat ria Pecas cujo reparo feito pelo cliente obrigat rio Se desejar que a HP substitua essas pecas ser o cobradas as despesas de transporte e m o de obra do servi o Support and other resources 75 Opcional Pe as cujo reparo feito pelo cliente opcional Essas pe as tamb m s o projetadas para o reparo feito pelo cliente No entanto se desejar que a HP as substitua pode haver ou n o a cobran a de taxa adicional dependendo do tipo de servi o de garantia destinado ao produto OBSERVA O Algumas pe as da HP n o s o projetadas para o reparo feito pelo cliente A fim de cumprir a garantia do cliente a HP exige que um t cnico autorizado substitua a pe a Essas pe as est o identificadas com a marca No N o no cat logo de pe as ilustrado Conforme a disponibilidade e o local geogr fico as pe as CSR ser o enviadas no primeiro dia til ap s o pedido Onde as condi es geogr ficas permitirem a entrega no mesmo dia ou em qu
50. ftware Operating system type and revision level HP contact information For United States and worldwide contact information see the Contact HP website http www hp com go assistance In the United States To contact HP by phone call 1 800 334 5144 For continuous quality improvement calls may be recorded or monitored If you have purchased a Care Pack service upgrade see the Support amp Drivers website http www8 hp com us en support drivers html If the problem cannot be resolved at the website call 1 800 633 3600 For more information about Care Packs see the HP website http pro ag sama houston hp com services cache 10950 0 0 225 121 html Customer Self Repair HP products are designed with many Customer Self Repair CSR parts to minimize repair time and allow for greater flexibility in performing defective parts replacement If during the diagnosis period HP or HP service Support and other resources 71 providers or service partners identifies that the repair can be accomplished by the use of a CSR part HP will ship that part directly to you for replacement There are two categories of CSR parts e Mandatory Parts for which customer self repair is mandatory If you request HP to replace these parts you will be charged for the travel and labor costs of this service e Optional Parts for which customer self repair is optional These parts are also designed for customer self repair If however you re
51. ge amount of committed virtual memory more than 1 5 times the amount of RAM and avoid application memory allocation errors the initial and maximum committed memory must be explicitly set for the expected application committed memory usage These values should generally be the same The following articles explain in detail how to size the page file appropriately e Main Article Link Pushing the Limits of Windows http blogs technet com b markrussinovich archive 2008 07 21 3092070 aspx e Specific section that documents virtual memory Pushing the Limits of Windows Virtual Memory http blogs technet com b markrussinovich archive 2008 11 17 3155406 aspx Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 63 Verifying page file operation To verify that a page file is actively placed on an IO Accelerator you can browse for hidden files at the drive root For example run the following command at a prompt dir c ah In the output listing there should be a file called pagefile sys If no page file is present recheck the page file configuration in the Virtual Memory dialog box to verify that page file support has been enabled on the queried IO Accelerator Virtual Memory performance Using the IO Accelerator as the paging store can improve overall Virtual Memory system performance Actual benefits will vary widely with the application virtual memory usage and with hardware platform and performance Using Windows page files with the IO
52. he name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system To view this bus number use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status If you do not specify a name fio status displays information on all installed IO Accelerators If the IO Accelerator is not loaded this parameter is ignored Options Utilities 47 Description Report all available information for each device Show all errors and warnings for each device This option is for diagnosing issues and it hides other information such as format sizes Count Report only the number of ioMemory devices installed Show basic information set plus the total amount of data read and written lifetime data volumes This option is not necessary when the a option is used Format JSON creates the output in JSON format Format XML creates the output in XML format Show unavailable fields Only valid with j or fx Show unavailable fields and details why Only valid with j or fx F lt field gt Print the value for a single field see the next option for field names Requires that a device be specified Multiple F options may be specified List the fields that can be individually accessed with F Starting with version 3 0 0 and later the standard formatting of the fio status output changed This change affects any custom management tools that used the output of this utility Basic Information If no optio
53. hen the same logical sector is written to Because of the way flash memory handles writes having a full SSD can cause significant reduction in write throughput Currently available storage stacks and file systems were not designed with this caveat in mind The SSD software must assume that all sectors contain valid data and therefore treat the drive as full In reality a file system does not normally contain a full drive of data Trim is an enhancement to existing file systems that informs the SSD software of logical sectors that do not contain valid user data Trim retrieves this information from a file system when a file has been deleted and it informs the drive that it can reclaim the space held by that file This feature enables the wear leveling software to reclaim that space as reserve to handle future write operations For Trim to perform this task it continually runs in the background and monitors the file systems being used on IO Accelerator devices The process is meant to run in the background so as not to noticeably impact the performance of the computer Trim platforms The Trim feature is available on IO Accelerators for Windows operating systems starting with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 NOTE Starting with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Trim capabilities are built into the operating system IO Accelerators support Windows 7 Trim which means that IO Accelerator Trim is unnecessary under Windows 7 and
54. hip n multi bank failure e Flashback active on bank a chip m and bank b chip m chip failure On the second flashback event include the output from running the fio bugreport command when you return the card Software RAID and health monitoring Software RAID stacks are typically designed to detect and mitigate the failure modes of traditional storage media The IO Accelerator attempts to fail as gracefully as possible and its new failure mechanisms are compatible with existing software RAID stacks A drive in write reduced mode participating in a write heavy workload is evicted from a RAID group for failure to receive data at a sufficient rate A drive in read only Monitoring IO Accelerator health 55 mode is evicted when write Os are returned from the device as failed Catastrophic failures are detected and handled just as though they were on traditional storage devices Monitoring IO Accelerator health 56 Trim support Introduction to Trim Trim is used to address a unique property of solid state drives The issue occurs when a user deletes a file and then the drive that contains the file does not recognize that it can reclaim that space Instead the drive reads the data as valid until the system informs the drive it can overwrite that data With a typical hard drive you can continually write to the same sector of the drive without significant degradation However a solid state drive writes to different flash memory areas w
55. his release is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Utils Double click the AutoAttachDisable reg file to add a key to the Windows registry This key prevents the IO Accelerator device from automatically attaching the next time you restart the computer Uninstall the IO Accelerator software in Windows Add Remove Programs Restart the computer Download the latest driver from the HP website http www hp com support Either unzip or run the Windows package to copy the files to a convenient directory Open the IO Accelerator Utilities folder The default location is C Program Files HP 10 Accelerator Utils To reset the key in the Windows registry double click the AutoAttachEnable reg file Your drive will automatically attach the next time you restart the computer Update the firmware of the devices Follow the steps in Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 Restart the computer after the firmware upgrade is complete The IO Accelerator Check Utility will run at next boot Windows Server environments 25 Your Windows operating system now detects the devices in the RAID configuration with the upgraded software Defragmentation The IO Accelerator does not need to be defragmented However some Windows versions automatically run defragmentation as a scheduled task If necessary turn off automatic defragmentation Silent install option Uninstalling the previous version If you have a version o
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57. hybrid of the RAM virtualization subsystem and the disk I O subsystem combines the best features of both systems VSL functions as a disk to interface well with block based applications and software while also running like RAM underneath to maximize performance This feature produces the following benefits e Performance The VSL offers direct and parallel access to multiple CPU cores enabling near linear performance scaling consistent performance across different read write workloads and low latency with minimal interruptions and context switching e Extensibility The VSL enables flash optimized software development making each IO Accelerator module a flexible building block for creating a flash optimized data center Product naming HP IO Accelerator Generation 1 devices include e AJ876A HP 80GB IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class e AJ877A HP 160GB IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class e AJ878A HP 320GB IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class e AJ878B HP 320 GB IO MIC Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class e BK836A HP 640GB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class We IMPORTANT Generation 1 IO accelerators for BladeSystem c Class are only compatible with G7 and earlier server blades e 600278 B21 HP 160GB Single Level Cell PCle ioDrive for ProLiant Servers e 600279 B21 HP 320GB Multi Level Cell PCle ioDrive for ProLiant Servers e 600281 B21 HP 320GB Single Level Cell PCle ioDrive Duo for ProLiant Servers e 600282 B21 HP 640GB M
58. i deve spedire ad HP entro un determinato periodo di tempo generalmente cinque 5 giorni lavorativi Il componente difettoso deve essere restituito con la documentazione associata nell imballo di spedizione fornito La mancata restituzione del componente pu comportare la fatturazione del ricambio da parte di HP Nel caso di riparazione da parte del cliente HP sostiene tutte le spese di spedizione e resa e sceglie il corriere vettore da utilizzare Per ulteriori informazioni sul programma CSR di HP contattare il centro di assistenza di zona Per il programma in Nord America fare riferimento al sito Web HP http www hp com go selfrepair Customer Self Repair HP Produkte enthalten viele CSR Teile Customer Self Repair um Reparaturzeiten zu minimieren und h here Flexibilit t beim Austausch defekter Bauteile zu erm glichen Wenn HP oder ein HP Servicepartner bei der Diagnose feststellt dass das Produkt mithilfe eines CSR Teils repariert werden kann sendet Ihnen HP dieses Bauteil zum Austausch direkt zu CSR Teile werden in zwei Kategorien unterteilt Zwingend Teile f r die das Customer Self Repair Verfahren zwingend vorgegeben ist Wenn Sie den Austausch dieser Teile von HP vornehmen lassen werden Ihnen die Anfahrt und Arbeitskosten fiir diesen Service berechnet Optional Teile f r die das Customer Self Repair Verfahren optional ist Diese Teile sind auch f r Customer Self Repair ausgelegt Wenn Sie jedoch den Austausch dieser
59. ibles et selon votre situation g ographique Si votre situation g ographique le permet et que vous demandez une livraison le jour m me ou dans les 4 heures celle ci vous sera factur e Pour b n ficier d une assistance t l phonique appelez le Centre d assistance technique HP Dans les documents envoy s avec la pi ce de rechange CSR HP pr cise s il est n cessaire de lui retourner la pi ce d fectueuse Si c est le cas vous devez le faire dans le d lai indiqu g n ralement cinq 5 jours ouvr s La pi ce et sa documentation doivent tre retourn es dans l emballage fourni Si vous ne retournez pas la pi ce d fectueuse HP se r serve le droit de vous facturer les co ts de remplacement Dans le cas d une pi ce CSR HP supporte l ensemble des frais d exp dition et de retour et d termine la soci t de courses ou le transporteur utiliser Support and other resources 72 Pour plus d informations sur le programme CSR de HP contactez votre Mainteneur Agree local Pour plus d informations sur ce programme en Amerique du Nord consultez le site Web HP http www hp com go selfrepair Riparazione da parte del cliente Per abbreviare i tempi di riparazione e garantire una maggiore flessibilit nella sostituzione di parti difettose i prodotti HP sono realizzati con numerosi componenti che possono essere riparati direttamente dal cliente CSR Customer Self Repair Se in fase di diagnostica HP o un centro di servizi o di assis
60. if you are instructed to do so by HP Customer Support or the Release Notes document Viewing the firmware version The firmware version can be found in the Windows System Event Log The version number is reported by the IO Accelerator Management Tool and the fio status command line utility For more information see the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool User Guide or fio status on page 47 Performing the upgrade Windows Server environments 23 A CAUTION Do not turn off the power during a firmware upgrade because this might cause device failure If a UPS is not in place consider adding one to the system before performing a firmware upgrade NOTE You might be required to upgrade the IO Accelerator driver if you upgrade the device firmware For more information see the Release Notes Upgrading the firmware might take several minutes The update command displays a progress bar to indicate the pace of the upgrade This progress bar might appear to stall at points but let the firmware update command complete Typically you use the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool console to perform firmware upgrades You can also perform the upgrade using the fio update iodrive command line utility To upgrade the firmware on the lO Accelerator using fio update iodrive 1 Back up the data on the IO Accelerator prior to any upgrade as a precaution 2 Open a command prompt and navigate to the C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Utils directory
61. ig with the following string fio config p FIO AFFINITY 8 n0 9 n0 13 n0 14 n0 18 n0 19 n0 23 n1 24 n1 28 n1 29 n1 135 n2 136 n2 140 n2 141 n2 145 n3 146 n3 150 n3 151 n3 155 n3 156 n3 No lt hex mask gt was stipulated for any of the devices in this example making each lt affinity specification gt a couplet rather than a triplet Therefore each device is shared among all of the NUMA configuration 68 processors in the specified nodes To fine tune the configuration you can stipulate the hex mask in each lt affinity specification and specify the processors for each device Checking the log for errors If you enter a configuration that is not valid the settings will be disabled and an error will be display in the system logs Example fio config p FIO AFFINITY 5 90 0xf 6 0xf In this example the affinity for device fct6 is set incorrectly because there is no group or node number before the mask The following errors appear in the system log 2011 09 09T12 22 15 1760868002 Invalid group or node number 2011 09 09T12 22 15 1760868002 FIO AFFINITY parameter syntax at affinity settings are disabled ERROR Fusion ERROR Fusion character 13 EventDriver FIO AFFINITY EventDriver Invalid 5 90 0xf 6 0x Manual NUMA configuration 69 Resources Subscription service HP recommends that you register your product at the Subscriber s Choice for Business website http www hp com support
62. ions lt device gt where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the IO Accelerator For example the name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system To view this bus number use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status Options Set the block sector size in bytes or KiBytes base 2 The default is 512 bytes For example b 512B or b 4K B in 512B is optional Force the format size bypassing normal checks and warnings This option might be needed when fio format does not proceed properly The Are you sure prompt still appears unless you use the y option This option can only be used with the o option Quiet mode Disable the display of the progress percentage indicator Set the device capacity as a specific size in TB GB or MB or as a percentage of the M G T gt advertised capacity T Number of terabytes TB to format G Number of gigabytes GB to format M Number of megabytes MB to format 3 Percentage such as 70 the percent sign must be included Disable fast rescan on unclean shutdowns at the cost of some capacity Utilities 46 EA E Auto answer yes to all queries from the application bypass prompts fio pci check Description Checks for errors on the PCI bus tree specifically for IO Accelerato
63. is 80GB and the other is 160GB e Both are formatted with a 4K sector size e Both will support paging files The current allocated non paged pool is obtained from Task Manager and in this example has a value of 576 MiB Values shown in Task Manager are in MiB 1024x1024 1 MiB The total RAM on the system is 8 196 MiB and the operating is Windows Server 2008 R2 To calculate the total available non paged pool use the following formula 8196 MiB x 0 75 576 284 80GB IO Accelerator 569 160GB IO Accelerator This still leaves 4 718 MiB available for non paged pool Enabling and disabling paging support Memory preallocation occurs during IO Accelerator driver initialization To enable paging support you must enable the FIO_PREALLOCATE_MEMORY configuration item This can be done using the fio config command line utility This parameter is assigned a string with a list of decimal serial numbers of the IO Accelerators that will support a paging file The driver performs memory preallocation for those instances The following example illustrates using the fio config utility which enables paging and preallocation on two IO Accelerators with serial numbers 1234 and 17834 Serial number information can be obtained using the fio status utility fio config p FIO PREALLOCATE MEMORY 1234 17834 To disable paging support on all drives use a value of 0 for FIO_PREALLOCATE_MEMORY fio config p FIO PREALLOCATE MEMORY 0
64. is to create a log file by using the L v parameters in the command line of the Installer Bootstrapper Also these parameters can be always passed to the MSI when the package is launched through the exe bootstrapper If you want your installation package to create a log follow these steps Windows Server environments 34 1 Open the Installer project of your installation package 2 Go to the Media page and select the Bootstrapper tab 3 Select the Create EXE setup file option A Set the MSI Command Line field to L4V C package log When the user launches the installation through the bootstrapper a log of the installation package log will be created automatically in the C drive The command line received by the bootstrapper overrides the command line in the MSI Command Line field Therefore if you launch an EXE package with logging parameters these parameters will be used for creating the log Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy To enable automated logging for debugging purposes create a registry value 1 From a command line run regedit exe 2 Locate the following registry key HKEY LOCAL MACHINE Software Policies Microsoft Windows Installer Create a new STRING Entry named Logging Change its value using the logging options discussed previously Note that you cannot use the wildcard for this approach The LOG file will be created in the Temp folder of the current user account
65. k Next If you want to customize the features click the plus sign next to Driver and Utilities or IO Management Utilities and then select the customizations you want from the list Windows Server environments 15 A Accelerator software 8 HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Setup Custom Setup Select the way you want features to be installed Click on the icons in the tree below to change the way Features will be installed E 139 StorageWorks IO PAN Driver and Utilities S Utilities ES SNMP Device Driver IO Management Utilit m em dm Da mbimna HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator IO Accelerator device driver and utilities This feature requires 16MB on your hard drive It has 2 of 2 subfeatures selected The subfeatures require 85MB on your hard drive px CAUTION Changing the default features might affect the performance or functionality of the IO Location C Program Files HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Browse Reset Disk Usage lt Back wc Cancel The following features are available o Device Driver required for the drive to be recognized in Windows operating system o HP IO Accelerator Management Tool Java Runtime Software o SNMP requires Microsoft SNMP to be installed o Utilities Command Line Utilities HP recommends that you select will be installed on local hard drive for each feature If you change you
66. l mode then fio sure erase cannot erase the device Updating the firmware may take the device out of Minimal Mode If the device remains in Minimal mode contact HP Customer Support for further assistance ES IMPORTANT After using fio sure erase format the device using fio format before using the device again To run the fio sure erase utility the block device must be detached See fio detach for more information Description The fio sure erase is a command line utility that securely removes data from IO Accelerator devices It complies with the Clear and Purge level of destruction from the following standards e DOD 5220 22 M Comply with instructions for Flash EPROM e NIST SP800 88 Comply with instructions for Flash EPROM Registry requirement To create a registry key to configure the driver for ECC bypass mode 1 Locate the following key HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services fiodrive Parameters 2 Create a DWORD key underneath it called BypassECC and set the value to 1 3 Restart the computer before running the utility Syntax fio sure erase options lt device gt where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the lO Accelerator For example the name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system To
67. lect Run as administrator fio attach Description Attaches the IO Accelerator device and makes it available to Windows operating systems You can then partition the IO Accelerator device or set it up as part of a RAID array using the Windows Disk Management utility This command displays a progress bar and percentage as it completes the attach process In most cases the driver automatically attaches the device when loading and does a scan You only need to run fio attach if you ran fio detach or if you set the auto_attach parameter to 0 Utilities 41 If the IO Accelerator device is in minimal mode then auto at tach is disabled until the cause of the device being in minimal mode is fixed Syntax fio attach device options where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the IO Accelerator For example the name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system Use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status to view this bus number You can specify multiple IO Accelerator devices For example dev fct dev fct2 indicates the IO Accelerator devices installed in PCle Buses 1 and 2 in your Windows operating system Options CSA aaa Attach only if clean Ea Quiet disables the display of the progress bar and percentage fio
68. load and then load the drivers Maintenance 40 Utilities Utilities reference The IO Accelerator installation packages include various command line utilities installed by default to the C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Utils folder These utilities provide a number of useful manners to access test and manipulate your device fio bugreport Prepares a detailed report for use in troubleshooting issues Enables configuration parameters for device operation Temporarily removes an IO Accelerator from OS access f f f Performs a low level format of an IO Accelerator fio pci check Searches for errors on the PCle bus tree specifically for PCle IO Accelerators Displays information about the device fio sure erase Securely removes information from tan IO Accelerator device Enables or disables the Trim feature fio update iodrive Updates the IO Accelerator firmware NOTE All utilities have h Help and v Version options NOTE To run these utilities from a command line using Windows Server you must either change directories to the directory that contains them by default C Program Files HP 10 Accelerator Utils or add that directory to your system path See the documentation for your Windows version for information about adding a directory to the system path NOTE The command line utilities require administrator rights to run under Windows operating systems Right click the Command Prompt menu item and se
69. log box opens Using this dialog box configure a page file for each available drive in the system Selecting the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives checkbox causes Windows operating systems to create a single page file on the system drive which is the drive the operating system starts from This checkbox should be cleared when using an IO Accelerator with a paging file Windows operating systems support up to 16 distinct paging files To enable a page file on an IO Acce 1 2 3 4 5 6 To re lerator Choose the IO Accelerator from the device list Select the Custom size button Provide values in the Initial size and Maximum size fields Click Set to save the setting Do not omit this step or your changes will be lost Click OK When prompted to restart click Yes This is necessary for the new page file settings to take effect move a paging file on the drive follow the steps above but select No paging file For performance reasons typically you will remove all paging files on any system hard disk NOTE The Virtual Memory dialog box enables pages files to be configured on available IO Accelerators even if the IO Accelerator has not been configured to support a page file Even though the dialog box enables the page file following the required restart no page file is created on the device Follow the directions in Enabling and disabling paging support on page 61 to properly enable page file su
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71. mum 25 W provided by PCle Gen slots to properly function For instructions on enabling the device to draw additional power from the PCle slots see Enabling PCle power override on page 38 IO Accelerator naming The IO Accelerator receives an identification name and number as part of the installation process The syntax is fctx where x is the number of the bus where you installed the IO Accelerator Use the IO Accelerator Management Tool to view this bus number or follow these steps 1 Select Start gt Control Panel gt System gt Hardware gt Device Manager Windows Server environments 27 2 Expand HP StorageWorks IO Accelerators and then double click HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator The Properties dialog box appears The Location field shows the bus number for your device fct8 in the following example HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Properties El General Driver Details Resources HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator ca Device type HP StorageWorks IO Accelerators Manufacturer HP Location PCI Slot 3 PCI bus 8 device O function 0 Device status This device is working properly Cancel NOTE HP assigns bus numbers which begin at O These numbers might or might not reflect the physical location of the bus For example the second slot from the edge of the motherboard may be Bus 2 but it might also be Bus 16 or another arbitrary number Checking Device Manager is one way to confirm th
72. nd generate a trap or simulate a change to the physical or logical size of the device and so forth Windows Server environments 29 NOTE To use SNMP test mode you must have installed the SNMP option with your PCle IO Accelerator Using test mode registry values The following table shows the registry entries included for SNMP test values Entries marked by an asterisk generate SNMP traps when set to the indicated values and the cpqDrvMIBCondition and cpgDrvInfoStatus MIB variables might be affected because of the changes NOTE All entries except those marked by reflect your registry changes immediately Entries marked by require a restart of the Windows SNMP agent for the changes to take effect cpgioDrvExtnAvaillogCapacityl Lower word of the available logical capacity in bytes cpgioDrvExtnUsablePhysCapacity Lower word of the useable physical capacity in bytes This space is holding valid data or is erased and ready for writing or is waiting to be reclaimed via garbage collection cpqioDrvExtnPhysBytesWrittenL Lower word of the total physical bytes written cpqioDrvExtnUsablePhysCapacity Upper word of the useable physical capacity in bytes This space is holding U valid data or is erased and ready for writing or is waiting to be reclaimed via garbage collection cpgioDrvinfolnternalTemp Current temperature of the device in degrees Celsius If this value is set above 78 C for ioDimm cards a trap is gene
73. nfoDriverVersion cpqloDimmInfoUID cpqloDimminfoState cpqloDimminfoClientDeviceName cpqloDimminfoBeacon cpqloDimminfoPCIAddress cpqloDimminfoPCIDevicelD cpqloDimminfoPCISubdevicelD cpqloDimminfoPCIVendorlD cpqloDimminfoPCISubvendorlD Windows Server environments 31 cpqloDimminfoPCISlot cpqloDimminfoWearoutIndicator cpqloDimminfoFlashbackIndicator cpqloDimminfoWritablelndicator cpqloDimminfolnternalTemp cpqloDimminfoHealthPercentage cpqloDimminfoMinimalModeReason cpqloDimminfoReducedWriteReason cpqloDimminfoMilli Volts cpqloDimminfoMilli Volts Peak cpqloDimminfoMilliVoltsMin cpqloDimminfoMilli Watts cpqloDimmInfoMilliWattsPeak cpqloDimminfoMilliAmps cpqloDimminfoMilliAmpsPeak cpqloDimminfoAdapterType cpqloDimminfoAdapterPort cpqloDimminfoAdapterSerialNumber cpqloDimminfoAdapterExtPowerPresent cpqloDimminfoPowerlossProtectDisabled cpqloDimminfolnternalTempHigh cpqloDimminfoAmbientTemp cpqloDimmInfoPCIBandwidthCompatibility cpqloDimminfoPCIPowerCompatibility cpqloDimminfoActualGoverningLevel cpqloDimminfoLifespanGoverningLevel cpqloDimminfoPowerGoverninglevel cpqloDimminfoThermalGoverninglevel cpqloDimminfoLifespanGoverningEnabled cpqloDimminfoLifespanGoverningTgtDate cpqloDimmExtnIndex cpgloDimmExtnTotalPhyslCapacityU cpqloDimmExtnTotalPhysCapacityL cpqloDimmExtnTotallogCapacityU cpqloDimmExtnTotallogCapacityL cpqloDimmExtnBytesReadU Windows Server environments 32 e cpqloDimmExtnBytesReadL e cpqloDimmExtnBytesWrit
74. ns are used fio status reports the following basic information e Number and type of cards installed in the system e Software version Adapter information e Adapter type e Product number e External Power Supply e PCI power limit threshold if available e Connected lO Accelerator devices Block device information e Attach status e Product name e Product number e Serial number e PCle slot number e Firmware version e Size of the device out of total capacity e Internal temperature average and maximum since IO Accelerator load in degrees Centigrade e Health status healthy nearing wearout write reduced or read only e Reserve capacity percentage e Warning capacity threshold percentage Utilities 48 Data Volume Information If the d option is used then the following data volume information is reported in addition to the basic information e Physical bytes written e Physical bytes read All Information If the a option is used then all information is printed which includes the following information in addition to basic and data volume information Adapter information e Manufacturer number e Date of manufacture e Power loss protection status e PCle bus voltage avg min max e PCle bus current avg max e PCle power limit threshold watts e PCle slot available power watts e PCle negotiated link information lanes and throughput Block device information e Part number e Manufacture
75. nutes BitmapRetrievalDelayInMilliseconds This value affects how much impact Trim has on the CPU The default is 25 milliseconds but can be any number between O most aggressive and 4 294 967 295 not aggressive at all Trim support 58 Trim configurations Trim can be used with the following configurations and features e RAID volumes mirrored spanned or striped NOTE RAID 5 striped with parity is not currently supported e Simple volumes no RAID e Any combination of the above RAID levels across multiple devices so long as there is at least one IO Accelerator in the RAID set e Multiple partitions on the same IO Accelerator device e NTFS and FAT32 file systems e Volumes with mount points no lt drive letter gt is defined e Compressed volumes e Different cluster sizes packet sizes and sector sizes e Extended and shrunk volumes Trim support 59 Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator Introduction to Windows page files This section describes how to effectively use paging swap files on IO Accelerator devices with Windows operating systems Using a page file with a traditional disk drive places practical limits on the usable size of the page file and virtual memory due to the poor performance of disk drives in relation to RAM Placing the operating system paging file on one or more IO Accelerators enables much larger page files and usable virtual memory This is due to the much faste
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77. odule parameter For more information on enabling this override parameter see Enabling the override parameter on page 39 Maintenance 38 A CAUTION If the PCle slot is not capable of providing the needed amount of power then enabling full power draw from the PCle slot might result in malfunction or even damage to server hardware The user is responsible for any damage to equipment due to improper use of the override parameter HP expressly disclaims any liability for damage arising from improper use of the override parameter To confirm the power limits and capabilities of each slot as well as the entire system contact the server manufacturer For information about using the override parameter contact HP Customer Support NOTE The override parameter overrides the setting that prevents devices from drawing more than 25 W from the PCle slot The parameter is enabled by device using the device serial numbers Once the setting is overridden each device might draw up to the full 55 W needed for peak performance Before you enable the override parameter ensure that each PCle slot is rated to provide enough power for all slots devices and server accessories To determine the power slot limits consult the server documentation BIOS interface setup utility or use the fio pci check command Important considerations e Ifyou are installing more than one dual IO Accelerator device and enabling the override parameter for each device be sure
78. omputer documentation for details Limiting APCI C states Newer processors have the ability to go into lower power modes when they are not fully utilized These idle states are known as ACPI C states The CO state is the normal full power operating state Higher C states C1 C2 C3 and so on are lower power states While ACPI C states save on power they are known to have a negative impact on I O latency and maximum IOPS With each higher C state typically more processor functions are limited to save power and it takes time to restore the processor to the CO state These power savings techniques are known to have a negative impact on I O latency and maximum IOPS When tuning for maximum performance you might benefit from limiting the C states or turning them off completely even though this might increase power consumption If your processor has ACPI C states available you can typically limit or disable them in the BIOS interface sometimes referred to as a Setup Utility APCI C states might be part of the ACPI menu For details see your computer documentation Performance and tuning 65 Setting NUMA affinity Servers with a NUMA Non Uniform Memory Access architecture require special installation instructions in order to maximize ioMemory device performance These servers include the HP ProLiant DL580 and HP DL980 Servers On servers with NUMA architecture during system boot the BIOS on some systems will not distribute PCle sl
79. on 57 Trim platforms 57 troubleshooting 35 U uninstalling a previously installed drive 12 uninstalling the driver 37 unmanaged shutdown issues 38 upgrade procedures 23 upgrading driver software 24 25 upgrading firmware 19 20 23 using installation logs 33 using test mode registry values 30 using the IO Accelerator as a swap 29 using Trim 57 utilities 41 utilities reference 41 V verifying page file operation 64 Virtual Memory performance 64 W Windows Installer logging options 33 Windows page file management 62 Windows page files 60 Windows page files introduction 60 Windows Server 2003 22 Windows Server 2008 23 Windows Server 2012 23 Windows Server environments 12 Index 84
80. on parameter names and values g lt name gt p lt name gt Gets the configuration parameter Set and persist the configuration parameter s lt name gt Set the configuration parameter in memory only Print verbose information Print version information fio config options The following table describes the driver parameters you can set with the fio config utility iy iy using fio config Default min max AUTO ATTACH IODRIVE TINTR HW WAIT LEL ATTAC EALLOCATE WIN DISABLE ALL AFFINITY WIN DISABLE DEFAULT NUMA AFFINIT Y 1 0 1 0 0 255 No devices selected 0 0 1 O 0 1 O affinity is enabled O default NUMA affinity is enabled IMPORTANT fio config options must be entered in uppercase to function properly IMPORTANT MSI Message Signaled Interrupts is enabled by default and it cannot be disabled Always attach the device on driver load 1 Interval microseconds to wait between hardware interrupts Allows selected devices to draw full power from the PCle slot Where the lt value gt for this parameter is a comma separated list of adapter serial numbers Force minimal mode on the device 1 this parameter is set to false 0 by default Enable parallel attach of multiple devices 1 this parameter is set to false 0 by default For the selected device preallocate all memory necessary
81. ots evenly among the NUMA nodes Each NUMA node contains multiple CPUs This imbalanced distribution means that during high workloads half or more of the CPUs might remain idle while the rest are 100 utilized To prevent this imbalance you must manually assign IO Accelerator devices equally among the available NUMA nodes For information on setting NUMA affinity see NUMA configuration on page 67 Setting the interrupt handler aftinity Device latency can be affected by placement of interrupts on NUMA systems HP recommends placing interrupts for a given device on the same NUMA socket that the application is issuing I O from If the CPUs on this socket are overwhelmed with user application tasks in some cases it might benefit performance to move the interrupts to a remote socket to help load balance the system Many operating systems will attempt to dynamically place interrupts for you and generally make good decisions Hand tuning interrupt placement is an advanced option that requires profiling of application performance on any given hardware For information on how to pin interrupts for a given device to specific CPUs see your operating system documentation Performance and tuning 66 NUMA configuration Introduction to NUMA architecture Servers with NUMA Non Uniform Memory Access architecture require special installation instructions in order to maximize IO Accelerator device performance These servers include the HP DL580 and
82. p or a convenient directory 4 Runthe IO Accelerator installation program Setup Wizard as explained in Using the Setup Wizard A CAUTION The installation program does not remove previous versions of the software If a previous version is removed after the newest version is installed the driver does not load after a restart If this occurs run the Repair option in the installation program from Programs and Features or Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel and then restart the computer NOTE Screens might appear slightly different for example the word StorageWorks might not appear in the name or pathname with version 2 x Windows Server environments 13 Using the Setup Wizard 1 Download the IO Accelerator installation program The Welcome screen appears i HP IO Accelerator Setup bn tuun m BEE Welcome to the HP IO Accelerator Setup Wizard The Setup Wizard will install HP IO Accelerator on your computer Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit the Setup Wizard 2 Click Next The Installation Recommendations screen appears is HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Setup E Install Recommendations Please un install any previous installs prior to installing this release Please uninstall any previous versions of the software and re boot the computer before continuing with this installation For Windows XP and Server 2003 go to Control Panel Add Remove Programs For
83. port 71 HP contacting 71 installing software 13 introduction 7 L limiting APCI C states 65 M maintenance 23 24 26 37 38 maintenance tools 37 Index 83 manual installation on Windows Server 21 monitoring IO Accelerator health 54 N naming 27 NAND flash and component failure 54 non paged memory pool 61 NUMA architecture 67 NUMA configuration 67 68 O operating environment 9 outdated firmware 26 overview 7 P page files setting up 62 PCle power override enabling 38 PCle power enabling 27 performance and tuning 65 performance and tuning introduction 65 performance attributes 8 performing a multi disk configuration 28 phone numbers 71 R RAID configuration 29 RAM consumption for page files 60 regulatory compliance identification numbers 79 regulatory compliance notices 79 required information 71 resources 70 71 S series number 79 setting interrupt handler affinity 66 setting NUMA affinity 66 setting up SNMP 29 setup wizard using 14 silent installation 26 SNMP MIB support 31 SNMP Windows details 29 software installation 13 software RAID and health monitoring 55 starting Trim 58 stopping Trim 58 support 71 supported firmware revisions 9 supported hardware 9 system drive paging file configuration 63 system log errors 69 T Taiwan battery recycling notice 79 technical support 71 telephone numbers 71 Trim configurations 59 Trim support 57 Trim introducti
84. pport on one or more IO Accelerators Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 62 System drive paging file configuration By default Windows operating systems create and manage a page file on the system boot drive typically a hard disk which is where the operating system is installed Maintaining a regular page file on the system hard disk is typically not optimal because the hard disk I O performance is many orders of magnitude slower than an IO Accelerator To resolve this issue you can eliminate or minimize the size of the system boot drive page file as explained later Enabling page files on IO Accelerators but not the system drive improves VM subsystem performance since the VM manager stripes I O across all available page files Additionally the IO Accelerators act as a large memory store which can greatly improve memory usage for large applications The Windows kernel uses the system disk page file to store crash dumps Crash dumps might be small mini dumps or large full kernel memory dumps Typically running without dump file support or with a small dump file is adequate There are several possible system drive page file configurations e Eliminate all page files on any hard disks including the system boot drive Although this maximizes paging I O on IO Accelerators no postmortem crash dump file will be available if a system crash occurs However you might be able to re enable a page file on the system drive and then
85. quire that HP replace them for you there may or may not be additional charges depending on the type of warranty service designated for your product NOTE Some HP parts are not designed for customer self repair In order to satisfy the customer warranty HP requires that an authorized service provider replace the part These parts are identified as No in the Illustrated Parts Catalog Based on availability and where geography permits CSR parts will be shipped for next business day delivery Same day or four hour delivery may be offered at an additional charge where geography permits If assistance is required you can call the HP Technical Support Center and a technician will help you over the telephone HP specifies in the materials shipped with a replacement CSR part whether a defective part must be returned to HP In cases where it is required to return the defective part to HP you must ship the defective part back to HP within a defined period of time normally five 5 business days The defective part must be returned with the associated documentation in the provided shipping material Failure to return the defective part may result in HP billing you for the replacement With a customer self repair HP will pay all shipping and part return costs and determine the courier carrier to be used For more information about HP s Customer Self Repair program contact your local service provider For the North American program refer to the HP website
86. r mind later you can use the Repair option in Programs and Features or Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel Windows Server environments 16 The Configure Shortcuts screen appears i HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator Setup x Configure Shortcuts Create application shortcuts Create shortcuts For HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator in the Following locations IV Desktop IV Start Menu Programs Folder HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator lt Back Cancel 6 If you want to accept the default program shortcuts click Next Otherwise clear any options you do not want and then click Next The Ready to Install screen appears ie HP IO Accelerator Setup lolx Click Install to begin the installation Click Back to review or change any of your installation settings Click Cancel to exit the wizard 7 Click Install to begin installation An installation status screen appears When installation is complete the Completed screen appears NOTE You might be prompted to stop installation and start the Microsoft SNMP service during the software installation Windows Server environments 17 te HP IO Accelerator Setup Please wait while the Setup Wizard installs HP IO Accelerator Status 8 Click Finish to exit the Wizard and launch the IO Accelerator software ig HP 10 Accelerator Setu A XI Completed the HP IO Accelerator Setup Wizard PTR HIT Click the Finish button to exit the Setup Wizard
87. r response times and bandwidth on IO Accelerators versus hard disks IO Accelerator software prior to version 2 0 2 does not support paging files Contiguring IO Accelerator paging support The IO Accelerator 2 0 2 driver and later versions can be configured to support paging files on one or more IO Accelerators Configuring paging support requires that each IO Accelerator used with a paging file preallocates the worst case amount of memory it might need in any possible I O scenario Memory is pre allocated on a per adapter ioDIMM instance Because of the extra host RAM memory use paging must be enabled only on IO Accelerators that actually hold a paging file You can place a single paging file on more than one IO Accelerator Windows operating systems stripe paging I O across all available paging files providing additional performance to the VM subsystem RAM consumption The amount of RAM preallocated per IO Accelerator depends on the total size of the device and the sector block size selected when formatting the drive with fio format The following table lists the estimated memory consumption for the various device and sector sizes IO Accelerator size GB 512 byte sector 4096 byte sector eo 1278 a TA 4 556 320 9 132 1 141 640 18 264 2 282 Host RAM Consumption in Mebibytes MiB 1024 x 1024 1 MiB Using a larger sector size significantly reduces the amount of host memory consumption needed for paging support HP recommend
88. r s code e Manufacturing date e Vendor and sub vendor information e Size of the device out of total capacity e Format status and sector information if device is attached e FPGA ID and Low level format GUID e PCle slot available power e PCle negotiated link information e Card temperature in degrees Centigrade e Internal voltage avg and max e Auxiliary voltage avg and max e Percentage of good blocks data and metadata e Lifetime data volume statistics Error Mode Information If the IO Accelerator is in minimal mode read only mode or write reduced mode when fio status is run the following differences occur in the output e Attach status is Status unknown Driver is in MINIMAL MODE e The reason for the minimal mode state is displayed such as Firmware is out of date Update firmware o Geometry and capacity information not available appears e No media health information appears Utilities 49 fio sure erase A CAUTION Before using this utility back up any important data Lk IMPORTANT As a best practice do not use this utility if you have any IO Accelerator devices installed in the system that you do not want to clear or purge First remove any devices that you do not want to accidentally erase After the data is removed with this utility it is not recoverable Ef IMPORTANT If the device is in Read only mode perform a format using fio format before running fio sure erase If the device is in Minima
89. rated If set above 90 C for HP Mezzanine cards a trap is generated cpqioDrvinfoFlashbackindicator flashback redundancy is degraded 2 false cpaioDrvinfoNonWritablelndicato 1 device is no longer writable because it has surpassed the read only r threshold 2 false cpqioDrvinfoPercentLifeRemaining Upper word of the total logical capacity in bytes as formatted cpqioDrvinfoState Current state of the attached client device unknown 0 detached 1 attached 2 minimal 3 trap generated if state 4 error 4 detaching 5 attaching 6 scanning 7 Windows Server environments 30 formatting 8 updating 9 attach 10 detach 11 format 12 update 13 cpgioDrvinfoWearoutindicator Boolean True device has surpassed the wearout threshold cpqioDrvTestMode Set test mode on or off cpqioDrvTestModelndex Number indicating the selected IO Accelerator Path to the driver set at installation Set trap generation on or off Name of the MIB in use updateDelay Number of milliseconds to wait until getting the next value from the driver to generate a trap SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Server cpqloDimmMibRevMajor cpqioDimmMibRevMinor cpqloDimmMibCondition cpqloDimminfolndex cpqloDimminfoStatus cpqloDimminfoName cpqloDimminfoSerial Number cpqloDimminfoPartNumber cpqloDimminfoSubvendorPartNumber cpqloDimminfoS parePartNumber cpqloDimminfoAssemblyNumber cpqloDimminfoFirmwareVersion cpqloDimmi
90. rocessor enterprise server e Enterprise data integrity e Field upgradeability e Green footprint 7 5W nominal per device Introduction 8 NOTE MSI was disabled to obtain these statistics Required operating environment The IO Accelerator is supported for use in the following operating environments e Windows Server 2003 x86 64 bit only SP2 not supported on Gen8 servers e Windows Server 2008 x86 64 bit only R1 with SP2 or higher e Windows Server 2008 x86 64 bit only R2 e Windows Server 2012 x86 64 bit only E IMPORTANT All operating systems must be 64 bit architecture NOTE IO Accelerators cannot be used as hibernation devices Supported firmware revisions After February 19 2013 all IO Accelerators ship with firmware version 7 1 13 109322 or higher This firmware version only works with VSL 3 2 2 or higher If you are installing a recently purchased or a replacement IO Accelerator into a system that already has IO Accelerators installed then you must upgrade the firmware on the previously installed devices to 7 1 13 109322 or higher You must also upgrade the VSL to 3 2 2 or higher Upgrading the firmware and VSL on cards that were running firmware versions 6 x x or higher and VSL 3 x x or higher is NOT data destructive However HP recommends that you back up any data on the device before performing the upgrade The latest supported version of the firmware and VSL can be found on the HP website hitp www hp com
91. rs This utility displays the current status of each lO Accelerator It also prints the standard PCI Express error information and resets the state It is normal to see a few errors perhaps as many as five when fio pci check is initially run Subsequent runs should reveal only one or two errors during several hours of operation The IO Accelerator driver must be loaded to run this utility Some PCI errors cannot be reset in your Windows operating system Syntax fio pci check options Options CS 1 Disable the link O bring the link up Scan every device in the system Ei Force the link to retrain E Verbose Print extra data about the hardware ey o Yes is forced when the user is asked to continue fio status Description The fio status command provides detailed information about the specified or all installed IO Accelerators either fctx or fiox devices The fio status command must run with root privileges and requires that the driver be loaded If it finds no device it displays an index number instead fio status provides alerts for certain error modes such as a minimal mode read only mode and write reduced mode describing what is causing the condition Syntax fio status lt device gt options where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the IO Accelerator For example t
92. rs in the system You cannot enable or disable Trim for only selected devices Utilities 51 Syntax fio trim config options Options Option Description Disable Trim on this computer le Default Enable Trim on this computer fio update iodrive Description The fio update iodrive utility updates the HP IO Accelerator firmware This utility scans the PCI Express bus for all HP IO Accelerators and updates them all sequentially You must detach all IO Accelerator devices before updating the firmware Detach the device from the system using the fio detach utility See fio detach on page 45 for more information To update one or more specific drives rather than all drives e Make sure the lO Accelerator driver is loaded e Use the d or s option A CAUTION Do not turn off the power during a firmware upgrade because this might cause device failure If a UPS is not in place consider adding one to the system before performing a firmware upgrade A CAUTION Note that when running multiple upgrades in sequence such as going from driver version 1 2 7 to 2 1 0 to 2 3 1 it is important to load the IO Accelerator driver after each firmware upgrade step Otherwise the on drive format will not be changed and there will be data loss A CAUTION Do not use this utility to downgrade the IO Accelerator to an earlier version of the firmware Doing so might result in data loss If you need to downgrade your firmware contact HP c
93. s a new DWORD parameter registry key called AutoAttach in HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services fiodrive Parameters Your IO Accelerator does not automatically attach the next time you reboot the computer Maintenance 37 4 When you finish troubleshooting the driver issue use the IO Accelerator Management Tool to attach the IO Accelerators and make them available to Windows operating system Enabling Autoattach 1 Open the lO Accelerator Utilities folder The default location is C Program Files HP 10 Accelerator Utils 2 Double click the autoattachenable reg file 3 If necessary confirm that you want to modify the registry This action resets the AutoAttach parameter in the Registry The next time that you reboot your Windows operating system your IO Accelerator automatically attaches Unmanaged shutdown issues Unmanaged shutdowns due to power loss or other circumstances force the IO Accelerator to perform a consistency check during the reboot This reboot might take several minutes or more to complete and is indicated by a progress percentage during a startup You can cancel this consistency check by pressing Ese during the first 15 seconds after the Fusion io Consistency Check message appears at the prompt However if you choose to cancel the check the IO Accelerators remains unavailable to users until the check is completed You can perform this check later using the IO Accelerator Manag
94. s using a 4K sector size be used because e that is generally the natural size of a host memory page and e it minimizes overall host memory consumption Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator 60 On Windows operating systems NTFS will generally use a cluster size of 4K so formatting to 512 is not useful except for applications that are compatible only with 512 byte sector sizes such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 The indicated amount is needed per IO Accelerator that supports paging You must carefully plan which lO Accelerators are used to hold a paging file Non paged memory pool Pre allocated memory for the IO Accelerator comes from the Windows kernel non paged memory pool This pool dynamically grows as system components consume additional kernel memory The maximum size of this pool is restricted as follows e Windows Server 2003 2008 R1 R2 2012 75 of RAM up to a maximum of 128GB e Windows Vista and Windows 7 40 of RAM up to a maximum of 128GB The amount of in use non paged pool memory should be noted when planning page file usage This is because the IO Accelerator preallocates RAM and that reduces the available physical non paged memory The driver fails to load if the total preallocated memory plus the in use non paged memory exceeds the maximum non paged memory pool To determine the total non paged memory pool use for two IO Accelerators use the following example e One IO Accelerator
95. selected slots using as a wildcard for boards The slots are in the following format lt domain gt lt bus gt lt slot gt lt func gt All three external LED indicators light up during the update process AA CAUTION Use the f option with care because it might damage your board A CAUTION Use the d and s options with care because updating a device in the wrong slot might damage it Utilities 53 Monitoring IO Accelerator health NAND flash and component failure The IO Accelerator is a highly faulttolerant storage subsystem that provides many levels of protection against component failure and the loss nature of solid state storage However as in all storage subsystems component failures might occur When a large enough number of data blocks is retired due to error the NAND flash media is considered worn out By properly selecting NAND flash media for the hosted application and proactively monitoring device age and health you can assure reliable performance over the intended product life Health metrics The IO Accelerator driver manages block retirement using pre determined retirement thresholds The IO Accelerator Management Tool and the fio status utility show a health indicator that starts at 100 and counts down to O As certain thresholds are crossed various actions are taken At the 10 healthy threshold a one time warning is issued For methods for capturing this alarm event see Heal
96. serves 100 00 warn at 10 00 Data 99 12 Lifetime data volumes Physical bytes written 6 423 563 326 064 Physical bytes read 5 509 006 756 312 The following Health Status messages are produced by the fio status utility e Healthy e Low metadata e Read only e Reduced write e Unknown HP IO Accelerator Management Tool In the Device Report tab look for the Reserve Space percentage in the right column The higher the percentage the healthier the drive is likely to be SNMP For details on how to configure SNMP health indicators see Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems on page 29 Flashback substitution events The IO Accelerator is equipped with Flashback substitution capability This capability allows for predictive NAND flash failures to occur and keep the IO Accelerator functioning by substituting out bad locations or even a whole NAND chip The output of the fio status a command will show if any flashback substitution events have occurred The following is an example of the output after entering the fio status a command The numbers represent the bank 0 3 and chip number that was substituted First flashback event gt No action to take as infant mortality condition on NAND chip was caught per design Second flashback event gt Run fio bugreport Return the card if under warranty when you see two or more flashback substitution events e Flashback active on bank a chip m and bank b c
97. ses all of the headers during the clear Purge support A Purge operation is implemented by using the p option with fio sure erase Purge is the act of first overwriting the entire NAND media including retired erase blocks with a single character every cell written to logical 0 and then performing a full chip erase every cell pushed to 1 across all media including retired erase blocks Metadata that is required for operation will not be destroyed media event log erase counts physical bytes read written performance and thermal history but any user specific metadata will be destroyed A Purge operation performs the following 1 Creates a unity map of every addressable block this allows fio sure erase to address every block including previously unmapped bad blocks Performs a write cycle for each block every cell written to 0 Performs an erase cycle for each block every cell pushed to 1 Restores the bad block map es 5 Se NG Formats the drive to make the drive usable again The utility erases all of the headers during the clear fio trim config Description Enables or disables the Trim feature which reclaims available space from the file system It is generally recommended that Trim be enabled for best performance TRIM is enabled by default Running this utility with no options displays the current Trim status For more information see Trim support on page 57 NOTE This utility affects all IO Accelerato
98. shell 4 Use the msiexec command line to launch the MSI with logging parameters Any installation logging command line must have this form msiexec i lt path to msi gt L V lt path to log gt The following is a sample command for creating the installation log The i parameter launches the MSI package Be sure to specify the actual paths to your MSI file and log file msiexec i C MyPackage Example msi L V C log example log If you want the log to be created next to the MSI you can specify only the name of the log file msiexec i C MyPackage Example msi L V example log After the installation is finished the log is complete Using an exe bootstrapper When the installation package is included in an exe bootstrapper do not use msiexec in the command line For example C MyPackage Setup msi L V example log Creating an uninstall log Launch the installer with the logging command for example C MyPackage Setup exe L V example log This command puts the package into maintenance mode and you can choose to uninstall it Because the package was launched with logging an uninstall log is generated Creating a patch install log To create a log for a patch installation follow the procedure in Creating an installation log on page 34 but replace the i parameter with p for example msiexec p C MyPackage Patch msp L V C log patch log Using the exe boostrapper Another approach
99. tenU e cpqloDimmExtnBytesWrittenL e cpqloDimmExtnFormattedBlockSize e cpqaloDimmExtnCurrentRAMUsageU e cpaloDimmExtnCurrentRAMUsagel e cpqloDimmExtnPeakRAMUsageU e cpqloDimmExtnPeakRAMUsagel e cpaloDimmWearoutTrap e cpqloDimmNonWritableTrap e cpqloDimmFlashbackTrap e cpqloDimmTempHighTrap e cpqloDimmTempOkTrap e cpqloDimmerrorTrap e cpqloDimmPowerlossProtectTrap Using installation logs You can create a Windows installation log to track various types of messages displayed when installing the driver Windows Installer logging options The Windows Installer handles its installations through Msiexec exe The logging command is issued with the L parameter Options are indicated with an asterisk For example the following command turns on logging with verbose output v msiexec i C MyPackage Example msi L V C log example log The following logging options enable you to create different types of logs depending on the information you need about the installation pon ess fe il Upon Windows Server environments 33 Option Description Extra debugging information Append to existing log file Flush each line to the log Log all information except for v and x options Creating an installation log 1 Determine the path of the MSI file for example C MyPackage Example exe 2 Decide the path of the log for example C 1og example 1og 3 Open cmd exe You can use any command
100. tenance Maintenance tools The IO Accelerator includes both software utilities to maintain the device and external LED indicators to display the status You can also install SNMP as a monitoring option The following are the most common tasks for maintaining your IO Accelerator You can also use the IO Accelerator Management Tool application to perform firmware upgrades For more information see the HP IO Accelerator Management Tool User Guide Common maintenance tasks The following tasks are the most common tasks for maintaining your IO Accelerator NOTE All commands require administrator privileges Log in as root or use sudo to run the commands Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package 1 NG nA WH Go to Start 5 Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management In the console tree at the left click Device Manager Expand HP IO Accelerators Right click an IO Accelerator Click Uninstall The Windows operating system uninstalls the driver Disabling AutoAttach When the IO Accelerator driver is installed it is configured to automatically attach any devices when the driver is loaded When necessary disable the AutoAttach feature To disable auto attach 1 Open the IO Accelerator Utilities folder The default location is C Program Files HP 10 Accelerator Utils Double click the autoattachdisable reg file If necessary confirm that you want to modify the registry This create
101. tenza HP identifica il guasto come riparabile mediante un ricambio CSR HP lo spedir direttamente al cliente per la sostituzione Vi sono due categorie di parti CSR Obbligatorie Parti che devono essere necessariamente riparate dal cliente Se il cliente ne affida la riparazione ad HP deve sostenere le spese di spedizione e di manodopera per il servizio Opzionali Parti la cui riparazione da parte del cliente facoltativa Si tratta comunque di componenti progettati per questo scopo Se tuttavia il cliente ne richiede la sostituzione ad HP potrebbe dover sostenere spese addizionali a seconda del tipo di garanzia previsto per il prodotto NOTA alcuni componenti HP non sono progettati per la riparazione da parte del cliente Per rispettare la garanzia HP richiede che queste parti siano sostituite da un centro di assistenza autorizzato Tali parti sono identificate da un No nel Catalogo illustrato dei componenti In base alla disponibilit e alla localit geografica le parti CSR vengono spedite con consegna entro il giorno lavorativo seguente La consegna nel giorno stesso o entro quattro ore offerta con un supplemento di costo solo in alcune zone In caso di necessit si pu richiedere l assistenza telefonica di un addetto del centro di supporto tecnico HP Nel materiale fornito con una parte di ricambio CSR HP specifica se il cliente deve restituire dei componenti Qualora sia richiesta la resa ad HP del componente difettoso lo s
102. th monitoring techniques on page 54 At 0 the device is considered unhealthy It enters write reduced mode which somewhat prolongs its lifespan so data can be safely migrated In this state the IO Accelerator behaves normally except for the reduced write performance At some point after the 0 threshold the device enters read only mode Any attempt to write to the IO Accelerator causes an error Some file systems might require special mount options to mount a read only block device beyond specifying that the mount should be read only For example under Linux ext3 requires that o ro noload is used The noload option tells the file system not to try to replay the journal Read only mode should be considered a final opportunity to migrate data off the device since device failure is more likely with continued use The IO Accelerator might enter failure mode In this case the device is offline and inaccessible This can be caused by an internal catastrophic failure improper firmware upgrade procedures or device wears out Health monitoring techniques fio status Output from the fio status utility shows the health percentage and drive state These items are in bold in the following sample output Found 1 ioDrive in this system Fusion io driver version 2 1 0 build 19032 Adapter ioDrive HP 160GB SLC PCIe ioDrive for ProLiant Servers Product Number 600278 B21 Monitoring IO Accelerator health 54 Media status Healthy Re
103. that you contact Fusion io support disregard that message and contact HP support http www hp com support instead Syntax fio bugreport Sample output C Users lt username gt Program Files HP IO Accelerator Utils fio bugreport exe Generating bug report Please wait this may take a while Gathering all Windows Event Logs DONE Gathering Fusion io Windows Event Logs DONE Gathering System Information DONE Running fio utilities DONE Compressing to CAB file DONE Bug report has successfully been created fio bugreport 20100222 192621 cab Please e mail this file to HP support For example a bug report file named fiobugreport 20090921 192621 cab indicates the following e Date 20090921 e Time 192621 or 19 26 21 tio contig Description Sets and gets configuration parameters for device operation For a list of parameters see fio config options on page 44 Syntax fio config lt device gt options where lt device gt is the name given to the IO Accelerator during the installation process The syntax is dev fctx where x indicates the PCle bus number where you installed the IO Accelerator For example the name dev fct4 refers to the IO Accelerator device installed in PCle Bus 4 in your Windows operating system Use the IO Accelerator Management Tool or fio status to view this bus number Options Utilities 43 E rr Enumerates configurati
104. the motherboard is rated to provide 55W power to each slot used For example some motherboards safely provide up to 75W to any one slot but run into power constraints when multiple slots are used to provide that much power Installing multiple devices in this situation might result in server hardware damage Consult with the manufacturer to determine the total PCle slot power available e The override parameter persists in the system and enables full power draw on an enabled device even if the device is removed and then placed in a different slot within the same system If the device is placed in a slot that is not rated to provide 55W of power your server hardware could experience a power drag e The override parameter is a setting for the IO Accelerator VSL software by server and is not stored in the device When moved to a new server the device defaults to the 25 W power limit until an external power cable is added or the override parameter is enabled for that device in the new server To determine the total PCle slot power available for the new server consult the manufacturer Enabling the override parameter 1 Use one of the following methods to determine the serial number of each device to be installed in a compatible slot o Enter the fio status command Sample output fio status Adapter Dual Controller Adapter Fusion io ioDrive2 DUO 2 41TB Product Number FO1 001 2T41 CS 0001 FIO SN 1149D0969 External Power NOT connected
105. tion on Windows Server The Windows Setup program installs your driver and software However if the driver does not install you can perform a manual installation or upgrade using the following steps Windows Server environments 21 Manually installing on Windows Server 2003 The Windows Driver Wizard automatically detects the new IO Accelerator and begins to locate its driver after you restart the system First Windows prompts you to locate the software driver E Update Driver Software Mass Storage Controller q xj EN uy L Update Driver Software Mass Storage Controller How do you want to search for driver software gt Search automatically for updated driver software Windows will search your computer and the Internet for the latest driver software for your device gt Browse my computer for driver software Locate and install driver software manually eS di P Cancel If you have not done so download and run the IO Accelerator Windows Setup program from the HP website http www hp com support Return to the Update Driver dialog box Select Install from a list or specific location Click Next Select Don t Search will choose the driver to install Click Next To open a browsing dialog click Have Disk Browse to the folder that contains the IO Accelerator driver The default is C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Driver Click OK The correct driver installs the device
106. uf und bestimmt den Kurier Frachtdienst Weitere Informationen ber das HP Customer Self Repair Programm erhalten Sie von Ihrem Servicepartner vor Ort Informationen ber das CSR Programm in Nordamerika finden Sie auf der HP Website unter http www hp com go selfrepair Reparaciones del propio cliente Los productos de HP incluyen muchos componentes que el propio usuario puede reemplazar Customer Self Repair CSR para minimizar el tiempo de reparaci n y ofrecer una mayor flexibilidad a la hora de realizar sustituciones de componentes defectuosos Si durante la fase de diagn stico HP o los proveedores o socios de servicio de HP identifica que una reparaci n puede llevarse a cabo mediante el uso de un componente CSR HP le enviara dicho componente directamente para que realice su sustituci n Los componentes CSR se clasifican en dos categorias e Obligatorio componentes para los que la reparaci n por parte del usuario es obligatoria Si solicita a HP que realice la sustituci n de estos componentes tendr que hacerse cargo de los gastos de desplazamiento y de mano de obra de dicho servicio e Opcional componentes para los que la reparaci n por parte del usuario es opcional Estos componentes tambi n est n dise ados para que puedan ser reparados por el usuario Sin embargo si precisa que HP realice su sustituci n puede o no conllevar costes adicionales dependiendo del tipo de servicio de garant a correspondiente al product
107. ulatory compliance sala 79 Turkey RoHS material content declaration aasa sis 79 Ukraine RoHS material content declaration Aa 79 Warranty information nana GG EG EG GENE GG an 79 o ses r S 80 OO cj cu OOO 82 ee 83 Contents 5 About this guide Contents summary e Instructions on downloading and installing the approved driver and utilities e Instructions on maintaining the IO Accelerator e Description of the following IO Accelerator models o HP IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class o HP PCle lO Accelerator o HP PCle lO Accelerator Duo A CAUTION Before upgrading to 3 x x software and firmware back up all data on the IO Accelerator The 3 2 3 software and firmware reformat the drive which causes data to be lost f not backed up The 3 2 3 software is not backward compatible with 1 2 x or 2 x software About this guide 6 Introduction Overview Designed around ioMemory a revolutionary storage architecture HP IO Accelerator is an advanced NAND flash storage device With performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with hard disks the IO Accelerator increases performance so that every server can contain internal storage that exceeds the I O performance of an enterprise SAN HP IO Accelerator is the first data accelerator designed specifically to improve the bandwidth for O bound applications In addition to the hardware driver the IO Accelerator also includes a VSL This
108. ulti Level Cell PCle ioDrive Duo for ProLiant Servers e 641027 B21 HP 1 28TB Multi Level Cell PCle ioDrive Duo for ProLiant Servers HP IO Accelerator Generation 2 devices include e GK7ETA HP 365GB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class Introduction 7 K762A HP 785GB IO MIC Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class K763A HP 1 2 TB IO MLC Accelerator for BladeSystem c Class ES IMPORTANT Generation 2 lO accelerators for BladeSystem c Class are only compatible with Gen8 and later server blades e 673642 B21 HP 365GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCle ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers e 673644 B21 HP 785GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCle ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers e 673646 B21 HP 1205GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCle ioDrive2 for Proliant Servers e 673648 B21 HP 2410GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCle ioDrive2 Duo for ProLiant Servers e 721458 B21 HP 3 0TB Multi Level Cell G2 PCle ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers Performance attributes IO Accelerator capacity Models AJ878B and BK836A MLC Multi Level Cell MLC Multi Level Cell Read Bandwidth 64k8 Write Bandwidth 648 Read IOPS 512 Byte Write IOPS 512 Byte Mixed IOPS 75 25 r w Access Latency 512 Byte IO Accelerator capacity Models QK762A and QK763A MLC Multi Level Cell MLC Multi Level Cell Read Bandwidth 1MB Write Bandwidth 1MB Read OPS Seg 512 Byte Write IOPS Seg 512 Byte 530 000 530 000 EEE 45 000 Write IOPS Rand 512 Byte Performance achieved using multip
109. ustomer support For more information see Technical support NOTE Ifyou receive an error message when updating the firmware instructing you to update the midprom information contact Customer Support For more information see Technical support The default action without using the d or s option is to upgrade all IO Accelerators with the firmware contained in the lt iodrive version fff gt file Confirm that all devices need the upgrade prior to running the update If in doubt use the p Pretend option to view the possible results of the update Syntax fio update iodrive lt iodrive version fff gt options where lt iodrive version fff gt is the path and firmware archive file provided by HP This is typically C Program Files HP IO Accelerator Firmware This parameter is required Option Description Updates the specified devices by fctx where x is the number of the device shown in fio status If this option is not specified all devices are updated Utilities 52 Description Force upgrade Used primarily to downgrade to an earlier firmware version If the IO Accelerator driver is not loaded this option also requires the d option f Lists firmware available in the archive Clears locks placed on a device Pretend Shows what updates are done The firmware is not modified Runs the update process without displaying the progress bar or percentage Confirm all warning messages Updates devices in
110. ve IO Accelerator devices configured for HP IO Accelerator VSL 2 x or y 9 earlier you must upgrade the firmware before installing new devices in the system For upgrade procedures see Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1 x x or 2 x x to 3 x x on page 19 If you are installing this version of HP IO Accelerator VSL on a system with IO Accelerator devices configured for VSL 2 x or earlier follow the instructions in Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1 x x or 2 x x to 3 x x on page 19 Install Installing software on a Windows operating system on page 13 the latest version of the lO Accelerator driver If necessary upgrade the firmware Upgrading the device firmware using Windows on page 23 to the latest version Configure the devices by adding a file system Adding a file system formatting and performing multi disk configuration on page 28 creating a RAID configuration on page 29 and so on Uninstalling a previously installed driver A CAUTION Upgrading an IO Accelerator from Version 1 2 x to Version 2 x is a one way process New firmware is required that is not compatible with 1 2 x systems Be sure all data is backed up before continuing with the upgrade Before installing a new driver uninstall the previous version 1 2 3 4 5 6 Go to the Start menu Open the Control Panel Select Add or Remove Programs Select the package or program NOTE Uninstall IO Manager and HP Storage Works IO Acceler

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