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= LSI MegaRAID SAS =

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= 1. Card information =

MegaRAID SAS is the current high-end RAID controllers series by LSI.
[[BR]]It is fully hardware RAIDs controllers supporting RAID5, at least, with SAS or SATA interfaces.
[[BR]]If you're a looking for information about MegaRAID SCSI connectors, please look at [wiki:LSIMegaRAID] instead.

All theses card can be used with stock Linux kernel which includes a '''working driver'''.
[[BR]]It's quite new and thus, may be missing in some not-up-to-date distributions.

There is currently '''no known opensource tool''' for theses cards.
[[BR]]Some old MegaRAID SAS can be used with megactl, but none of current cards works.
[[BR]]However LSI provide ''megacli'', a '''proprietary management command line utility''' which is rather '''hard to use'''.

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= 2. Linux kernel drivers =

|| Driver || Supported cards ||
|| megaraid_sas || LSI MegaRAID SAS ||

''megaraid_sas is part of mainstream Linux kernel and should be available in all current distributions.
[[BR]]However, please that most of old distributions won't have this driver.

If your card use ''megaraid_mm'' or ''megaraid_mbox'' driver, please look at [wiki:LSIMegaRAID] instead.

Some ''lspci -nn' output examples:
  * 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller ![0104]: Dell !PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5 ![1028:0015]

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= 3. Management and reporting tools =

'''megactl''' includes a SAS compliant binary named '''megasasctl'''. It seems to '''work on old card''' but fails with the new one.
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If megasasctl doesn't work for you, you will have to use the '''proprietary cli utility''' from LSI: '''megaclisas'''.

For managing the card there are no alternatives to ''megaclisas''.

== 3.1. megactl ==

Despites megasasctl doesn't seem to work with recent cards, you should really give it a try.

=== 3.1.1. Quickstart and output example ===

Print current controller status:
{{{
server:~# megasasctl
a0       PERC 5/i Integrated      encl:1 ldrv:1  batt:good
a0d0      136GiB RAID 1   1x2  optimal
a0e8s0     136GiB  a0d0  online
a0e8s1     136GiB  a0d0  online
}}}

There are several switches which are interresting:
  * '''-H''': Only print lines which are not ok.[[BR]]If nothing is printer, everything is fine
  * '''-B''': Ignore batttery problems when running -H.[[BR]]In fact megasasctl can't define if your controller has a battery or not.[[BR]]If you don't have one, use this parameter.

=== 3.1.2. Periodic checks ===

You can write your own script around megasasctl to check your adapter status health periodically. 
However, I already did this for you. See megaraid-status below.

== 3.2. megaraid-status ==

=== 3.2.1. About megaraid-status ===

'''megaraidsas-status''' is a wrapper script around megactl with periodics checks.
[[BR]]It is available in the packages repository too.

[[BR]]The packages comes with a python wrapper around megasasctl and an initscript that '''periodic''' run this wrapper to '''check status'''.
[[BR]]It keeps a file with latest status and thus is able to detect RAID '''status changes and/or brokeness'''.
[[BR]]It will log a ligne to '''syslog''' when something failed and will send you a '''mail'''.
[[BR]]Until arrays are healthy again a '''reminder''' will be sent each 2 hours.

=== 3.2.2. Wrapper output example ===

{{{
server:~# megaraidsas-status
-- Arrays informations --
-- ID   Type    Size    Status
a0d0    RAID 1  136GiB  optimal

-- Disks informations
-- ID   Model                   Status
a0e8s0  SEAGATE ST3146854SS     online
a0e8s1  SEAGATE ST3146854SS     online
}}}

== 3.3. megaclisas ==

=== 3.3.1. About megaclisas  ===

'''megacli''' is a proprietary tool by LSI which can perform both '''reporting and management''' for MegaRAID SAS cards.
[[BR]]However it's really hard to use because it's use '''tones of command line parameters''' and there's '''no documentation'''.

=== 3.3.2. Quickstart and output example ===

Get all adapters status and config:
{{{
pr57ga:~# megacli -AdpAllInfo -aAll

Adapter #0

==============================================================================
                    Versions
                ================
Product Name    : PERC 5/i Integrated
Serial No       : 12345
FW Package Build: 5.2.1-0067

                    Mfg. Data
                ================
Mfg. Date       : 00/00/00
Rework Date     : 00/00/00
Revision No     : @��A
Battery FRU     : N/A

                Image Versions In Flash:
                ================
Boot Block Version : R.2.3.12
BIOS Version       : MT28-8
MPT Version        : MPTFW-00.10.61.00-IT
FW Version         : 1.03.40-0316
WebBIOS Version    : 1.03-04
Ctrl-R Version     : 1.04-019A
[...]
}}}