N.B.: PERC 5 controllers use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), which uses the new megaraid_sas driver.
Please note that these LSI tools are not officially supported by Dell on Linux and are provided here for informational purposes only.ĭell sells a number of RAID cards or ROMBs which use the LSI (formerly AMI) MegaRAID driver which is part of the stock 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x kernels. Moritz Mertinkat has created a PERC 5/i + MegaCLI cheat sheet which provides useful instructions for managing this controller via the command line tool. Instead, use the new LSI SAS RAID tools: MegaCLI, MegaRAID Storage Manager, MegaRAID SAS SNMP. The PERC 5 SAS RAID adapters cannot use the same LSI management tools as their SCSI RAID counterparts (PERC 4 and earlier). Use OMSA 5.1 or higher, including the OM Storage Services component, to manage your PERC 5 (and earlier) controllers.
Both drivers are included in 2.6.x kernels, and have been backported to the RHE元 2.4.21-x kernels. The new SAS 5 and SAS 6 non-RAID controllers use a new driver, mptsas, part of the mptfusion driver family. The new PERC 5 and PERC 6 RAID controllers use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), and a new driver, megaraid_sas. It remains here for historical purposes only.įor tips and tricks common to all types of storage, see Installer Magic