Installs Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver (version 5.0.4.43v2) for Intel® 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Families and 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor U-Series Platform.
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Hello World, Hello Fernando!
I need some advice getting a brand new small server to run as I planned to. The plan is to use the Intel «software» RAID driver solution on four SSDs. For this I need some advice and infos on the Intel drivers availible and how/with what components they work.
I am not a complete noob on this since I set up a pretty similar solution on a server with some older components.
What I have:
Brandnew Supermicro X11SCA-F board — that is a socket 1151v2 board using the Intel C246 chipset (that should be somewhat the same chip as an H370 or Z390 chipset but for Xeon CPUs).
Currently an i3-8100 (which is also supported by that board since it also has ECC memory support) that will be later upgraded to a Xeon E-2146G or 2176G when they finally are availible to buy for retail customers.
Two Samsung SM883 SATA SSD drives and two Intel DC P4510 NVMe SSDs.
Windows Server 2016 Essentials (Build 1703)
What I want:
Raid1 Mode on those Samsung SSDs an use them as the OS partition
Raid1 Mode on the two Intel DC NVMe drives to use them as the data partition (programs and database)
What I already did:
Switched the SATA controller to RAID in the BIOS — got the RSTe RAID option (UEFI module I guess) after I rebooted into the BIOS — created the RAID 1 array on the two Samsung SSDs and installed Server 2016 in UEFI mode to that array.
That worked out great. Windows used the built in drivers that are 13.2.0.something for the Intel SATA Raid and the «standard Microsoft NVMe» drivers that also detected both the Intel NVMe SSDs. Oh by the way these are in the 2.5 inch format and use the U.2 interface, but I didn’t use the onboard U.2 port (that’s probably connected to the chipset using 4x PCI-E 3.0 lanes and is shared with the M.2 port on the board that I don’t use either). Instead I use two PCI-E slot adapter cards that directly has the required U.2 SFF-8639 port and mounts the drive. LINK to that card: https://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/u2. ssd
PEX4SFF8639
Please note that these cards have no controller/raid/hba chip nor any other logic on them — but simply wire the PCI-E lanes to the U.2 drive.
These two cards are plugged into the two 16x PCI-E slots that come directly from the CPU (not the chipset!) — running in 8x/8x configuration since the socket 1151 CPUs only offer 16 PCI-E lanes directly off the CPU.
Anyway — the two Intel SSDs are detected in the BIOS as NVMe drives and are fully usable under Windows as single drives, BUT . and that’s what leads us to:
What problem I have:
They are not listed in the Intel RAID option ROM/UEFI module in the BIOS — so I can’t create a RAID 1 from these.
Okay, as I mentioned above — what I did in 2017 to an older system:
Supermicro X10SRi-F socket 2011-3 board using the Intel C612 chipset
Xeon E5-1650 v4 (Broadwell-E)
Two Samsung SM863 SATA SSDs and two Intel DC P3510 NVMe SSDs (these are 4x PCI-E cards directly for the PCI-E slots).
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
Same constellation — Raid 1 for the Samsung SATA SSDs for the OS and Raid 1 for the Intel NVMe SSDs for data.
Configured the SATA controller as RAID — created the RAID 1 for the Samsung SSDs in the BIOS and installed Windows 2012 R2 in UEFI mode on that RAID 1.
Once in Windows I downloaded and installed the package you also list here «Intel RSTe NVMe RAID Drivers & Software Set v4.6.0.2125» that includes the RSTe NVMe driver especially for Intel DC P3500/3600/3700 SSDs (so the P3510 is also supported). For the NVMe drives it uses the IaRNVMe.sys driver and it also installed the «Intel(R) RSTe Virtual Controller» controller.
In the «Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology enterprise» GUI (the systray icon/program to launch) I could see all the drives connected to either the SATA Ports AND the NVMe drives. The SATA RAID 1 consisting of the two Samsung drives was there and I successfully created the RAID 1 using the two Intel NVMe drives.
On the new server I thought (since the hardware is younger) I could use the «Intel RSTe Drivers & Software Set v5.5.0.1367 WHQL for Win8-10» drivers since it seems like these are the successors to that v4.6.0 version mentioned above. They installed fine and updated the drivers for the SATA RAID controller and installed the GUI. Everything looks good besides that there are no NVMe drives shown in the GUI. Okay — there are no NVMe drivers in that package and since the two Intel DC P4510 drives are still using the standard Windows NVMe driver I thought I need the Intel driver for these drives to be recognized in the RSTe GUI software. So I installed the «Intel NVMe drivers v4.0.0.1007» that are compatible with these drives — it worked and now the standard Windows NVMe drivers are gone and it shows the Intel drives with that intel driver. The driver it uses is called IaNVMe.sys (so I guess not really similar to that IaRNVMe.sys [note the R in there] used in the older server). And the drives are still not shown in the RSTe GUI software to manage and maybe create an array.
Then I recalled the big cry out when Intel released it’s socket 2011-3 successor the socket 2066 with the X299 chipset and the server counterparts also using that socket or even the bigger socket 3647. Intel introduced the VROC (Virtual Raid on CPU) technology and along with that hardware (?) keys to be installed that enable certain features for that software that costs money. I remember that back in early 2017 when I built the old server it was only possible to RAID NVMe drives that are directly connected to the CPU if you use a Xeon and Intel NVMe SSDs. But they would not be bootable — what was fine with me. Now with the VROC technology it is possible to RAID NVMe drives even non-Intel ones and even boot from them — but you need to buy a key for that and I am not really sure what platforms besides the socket 2066 and 3647 are supported.
What I also tried on the new server:
«Intel RSTe NVMe RAID Drivers & Software Set v4.6.0.2125» that I used on the old server — but the Setup.exe says that my system doesn’t meet the requirements. Might be caused that these drivers support Windows 10 and Server 2012 R2 but do not list Server 2016. Might also be caused that I don’t have a P3500/3600/3700 SSD in the system but a P4510 that obviosly isn’t listed in the driver INF file. Might also be caused by the fact that I don’t yet run a Xeon in there — but an i3. Might also be caused by the fact that this is the smaller socket 1151v2 with a C246 chipset. The readme states that it requires a C600+/C220+ or C610 series controller.
A manual forced installation of the NVMe driver (IaRNVMe.sys) for the P4510 drive renders it unusable with a mark in device manager that the driver couldn’t be started or something.
Since you stated in your first post in this thread that QUOTE «All Intel RST(e) SATA RAID drivers from v14.8 series up do support NVMe RAID arrays as well. Supported are only modern Intel systems from 100-Series up, whose Intel SATA Controller has been set to RAID mode.» I downloaded and tried I think Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v15.8.2.1009 WHQL. That installed fine but shows me only the SATA drives as the RSTe v5.5.0 above. So I guess your statement might only apply to NVMe drives that are connected to the chipset, not the CPU, am I guessing right?
Since there seems to be no updated IaRNVMe driver (the RSTe NVMe RAID Drivers & Software Set v4.6.0.2125 I am using for the old driver) I guess I am out of luck, right?
Any other ideas?
The VROC does not seem to be supported on that board either since I did not find a port to plug a possible 4 pin VROC key in and also there is no word about that in the Supermicro mainboard manual. I don’t really want to pay Intel for a feature that was once free.
A thing I might try is to use the software mirror option of Windows itself (not Storage Pool but the basic function in the disk management of windows). But I am sceptical on a possible performance loss and/or reliability of that feature.
This guide is to help with the creation of a RAID 1 using the integrated Intel C612 controller.
1. Enter the BIOS by hitting the «delete» key. Once there, tab over to the Advanced tab and select the SATA Configuration option and hit ‘Enter’.
2. The default setting is set to AHCI, change this to RAID.
3. You may need to change the default boot select option from sSATA controller to the SATA controller. Depending on where your drives are installed. In this case, it is the SATA controller.
4. Hit F4 to save and exit the BIOS.
5. You should now see a new option during POST with the option to hit Ctrl+I to go to the Intel Rapid Storage BIOS, and you should see your two drives listed there as well.
6. The default screen will look similar to the following image. Hit enter to create a new RAID volume.
6. Use the enter key to move down from section to section. Name your volume first, then when you need to select between RAID 0 and RAID 1, use your «Arrow» keys to change RAID modes. Hit enter when done.
7. Once you have made all the changes you want. Create the Volume. A prompt will come up asking if your really want to continue, hit Yes. There should be no data on these drives yet so it is safe to create the mirror.
8. Here you see the main screen again with your newly created RAID 1.
9. You can now hit ‘ESC’ to exit this screen and continue loading your OS on your new mirror.
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