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Intel RAID Expander Card
RES2SV240 Hardware User’s Guide
Intel Order Number: E93121-002
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Preface ® This is the primary hardware guide for the Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240, which can be used to manage SAS and SATA disk drives. It contains installation instructions and specifications. For details on configuring the storage adapters, and for an overview of the software ® drivers, see the Intel RAID Software User’s Guide on the Resource CD. Audience This document assumes that you have some familiarity with RAID controllers/modules/expanders and related support devices. The peo
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Table of Contents Preface ........................................................................................................................iii Audience ............................................................................................................................... iii Organization ......................................................................................................................... iii Related Publication ..................................................
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List of Figures Figure 1. Changing the bracket................................................................................................. 6 ® Figure 2. Installing Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 ................................................... 7 Figure 3. Installing the Expander Card onto a Customized Chassis Wall................................. 8 Figure 4. Cabling among the Expander Card, RAID Module/Controller and Drives/Backplane 9 Figure 5. Card Layout.........................
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List of Tables Table 1. Jumper Description ...................................................................................................12 Table 2. SFF8087 to SFF8087 Connector Pin-out.................................................................. 16 Table 3. SATA Connector to SFF8087 Connector Pin-out ......................................................18 Table 4. SFF8087 (with SGPIO) Connector Pin-out ............................................................... 20 Table 5. Tech
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1 Overview ® The Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 offers high performance, high disk drive connectivity,scalability, and flexibility in various storage environments, and is an attractive alternative to other expensive and complex topologies. The SAS expander is ideal for high availability and scalable server clustering environments and front-end storage subsystems used in clusters, Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Network- Attached Storage (NAS) environments. It is an optimal device for u
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® Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 ® The SAS/SATA functionality for the Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 is contained within the LSI* LSISAS2x24 24-Port Serial Attached SCSI/SATA Expander chip. This expander card has twenty-four independent ports supporting 6Gb/s, 3 Gb/s, or 1.5Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfers using six SFF-8087 mini-SAS connectors. This controller supports 4 inputs and 20 outputs configuration, or 8 inputs and 16 outputs configuration. This expander card is powered eit
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• SFF-8485 protocol, using the Serial GPIO (SGPIO) interface provided by the expander. Operating System Support The operating systems supported are determined by your RAID controller or module. See the Tested operating system list for your RAID controller or module at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. Features • Supports both Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA devices • 6.0 Gbit/s, 3.0 Gbit/s, and 1.5 Gbit/s data transfer rate • Six SFF-8087 mini-SAS connectors providin
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® 2 Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware Installation Requirements ® • Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240, with full height or low profile brackets, or with screws • Available PCI Express* x4 connector, or with available RA 4-pin power connector • SAS and SATA hard drives up to 6Gb/s speed • Six provided SAS/SATA cables (for cable requirements, see step 6 in “Installing the RAID Module”) Note: Intel Corporation strongly recommends using an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Installin
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Full-height Bracket Low-profile Bracket AF003490 Figure 1. Changing the bracket 4. Install the expander card into an available server system x4, x8 or x16 PCI- Express* slot (see Figure 2). To locate an appropriate slot and for instructions on installing an add-in card, see your server system documentation. 6 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User’s Guide
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PCI Express* Slot AF003491 ® Figure 2. Installing Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 5. (Optional) In case power can be supplied remotely from RA 4-pin 12V/5V power connector, the expander card can be located elsewhere within the server chassis instead of using a PCI Express slot, if only the cooling condition can meet the expander card's thermal and atmospheric requirement. The expander card can therefore be fastened by removing its bracket and fasten it to a customized chassis wall (see F
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AF003495 Figure 3. Installing the Expander Card onto a Customized Chassis Wall 6. Connect the SAS/SATA cables from the backplane (or hard drives) to the expander card, and from the expander card to a RAID module or RAID controller (see Figure 4, which takes 6-drive and 4-drive non-expander backplanes in Intel's pedestal chassis as an example for cabling). For information regarding connecting the recommended Right-angle end or Vertical end of the SAS/SATA cable to the SAS connectors of the c
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Figure 4. Cabling among the Expander Card, RAID Module/Controller and Drives/Backplane 7. Install the server system cover and connect the power cords. See your server system documentation for instructions. Configuring the Expander Card ® After physically installed into a server system, the Intel RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 is transparent to users in RAID configurations. Refer to the technical specification or user guide of the RAID controller connected to this expander card to know how to
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