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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 Acce
lerator software
release 3.2.3 or later.
Part Number: 647099-003
February 2013
Edition: 3
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Indice de contenidos

Pagina 1 - User Guide

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

Pagina 2

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

Pagina 3 - Contents

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

Pagina 4 - Contents 4

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

Pagina 5 - Contents 5

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

Pagina 6 - About this guide

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

Pagina 7 - Introduction

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

Pagina 8 - Performance attributes

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

Pagina 9 - Supported hardware

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

Pagina 10 - Introduction 10

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

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

Pagina 12 - Windows Server environments

© Copyright 2011, 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warr

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

Pagina 14 - Using the Setup Wizard

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pagina 20 - Upgrading procedure

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

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

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

Pagina 23 - Performing the upgrade

Contents 3 Contents About this guide ...

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

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

Pagina 26 - Silent install option

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

Pagina 27 - IO Accelerator naming

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pagina 33 - Using installation logs

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

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

Pagina 36 - Message Suggested solution

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

Pagina 37 - Maintenance

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

Pagina 38 - Enabling PCIe power override

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

Pagina 39 - Maintenance 39

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

Pagina 40 - Maintenance 40

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

Pagina 41 - Utilities

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

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

Pagina 43 - • Date (20090921)

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

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

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Contents 5 Introduction to performance and tuning ...

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

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

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

Pagina 49 - Utilities 49

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

Pagina 50 - Utilities 50

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

Pagina 51

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

Pagina 52 - • Use the -d or -s option

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

Pagina 53

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

Pagina 54 - Health monitoring techniques

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

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

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

Pagina 57 - Trim support

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

Pagina 58 - Enabling Trim

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

Pagina 59 - Trim configurations

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

Pagina 60 - Accelerator

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

Pagina 61 - Non-paged memory pool

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

Pagina 62 - Windows page file management

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

Pagina 63

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

Pagina 64 - Virtual Memory performance

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

Pagina 65 - Performance and tuning

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

Pagina 66 - Setting NUMA affinity

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

Pagina 67 - NUMA configuration

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

Pagina 68

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

Pagina 69 - Checking the log for errors

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

Pagina 70 - Resources

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

Pagina 71 - Support and other resources

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

Pagina 72

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

Pagina 73 - Customer Self Repair

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

Pagina 74

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

Pagina 75 - Reparo feito pelo cliente

Support and other resources 77

Pagina 76

Support and other resources 78

Pagina 77

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

Pagina 78

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

Pagina 79 - Regulatory information

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

Pagina 80 - Acronyms and abbreviations

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

Pagina 81 - Virtual Machine

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

Pagina 82 - Documentation feedback

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

Pagina 83 - Index 83

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

Pagina 84 - Index 84

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

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