What is the Intel® Storage Management Pack?
The Intel Storage Management Pack (formerly LUN Copier) allows the creation of a local copy of a data LUN, and the creation of a new OS LUN (which can be assigned to a new compute module as with the boot LUN), by copying an existing LUN which already has an OS installed in it.

What are the benefits of an Intel® Modular Server Storage Management Pack?

• Copying an existing virtual drive can be used as a local backup solution (on the Intel® Modular Server only)
• Makes OS provisioning and deployment easier and faster
• Can be used for non-production environment testing
• Off-line and On-Line RAID morphing

What is off-line RAID morphing?
Copying a virtual drive from one RAID level to another, when the Intel® Compute Module assigned to this virtual drive is switched off.

What is on-line RAID morphing?
Copying a virtual drive from one RAID level to another, when the Intel® Compute Module assigned to this virtual drive is switched on.

What are the requirements for using the Intel® Modular Server Storage Management Pack?

• An Intel® Modular Server with firmware version 4.0 or above.
• A valid license key which activates the Intel® Modular Server Storage Management Pack feature on the Intel Modular Server.
• Intel® Compute Modules which run the validated operating systems for this feature
  • Windows* 2003 R2 SP-2 and 2008 SP-1 & SP-2
  • SuSE* 10.2 & 11
    • Virtual disk copy best known methods for SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 or
    • Virtual disk copy best known methods for SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11
  • RHEL* 5.

How long does LUN copying take?
This depends on the size and content of the virtual drive being copied. Copying the LUN runs as a background task and will only have a limited amount of system resources available for this task. Copying a LUN during productive time of the system may have a performance impact. If users wish to copy more than one LUN: the first copy will start, and then all further copy processes will be queued up and start when the previous one is finished.

What do I need to do to activate my Intel® Modular Server Storage Management Pack feature?

• Contact your reseller to purchase a paper pack ID. Product code MFSLUNCOPY MM#903085.
• Obtain the mid plane serial number of the Intel Modular Server on which the feature should be activated.
• See How do I activate features on the Intel® Modular Server? to find the midplane serial number and steps for license key activation.

Is the Defragment option only available with the Intel® Modular Server Storage Management Pack activated?
Yes, this option is only available as part of the Intel Modular Server Storage Management Pack.

Operating System:

OS Independent

This applies to:

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25 Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25V2 Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35