Chapter 5: Creating Integrated Striping Volumes Creating Integrated Striping Volumes | SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide |
Disks must have
Integrated Striping volumes must have at least two disks and no more than 10 disks. Integrated Striping volumes do not support hot spare disks.
Follow these steps to configure an Integrated Striping volume with the SAS2 BIOS CU, after. The steps begin with the Adapter List window that appears when the SAS2 BIOS CU starts.
1.On the Adapter List window, select an LSI SAS adapter, and press Enter. The Adapter Properties window appears, as the following figure shows.
Figure 10: Adapter Properties Window
2.Select RAID Properties, and press Enter. The Create Array window appears.
3.Select Create RAID 0 Volume.
The Create New Array window appears.
4.Move the cursor to the RAID Disk column, and select a line that has a No entry in this column, which indicates that the disk is not already part of the volume you are creating. To add the disk to the new array, change the No to Yes by pressing the space bar.
5.Move the cursor to another line and press the space bar to add another disk to the array.
6.Continue adding disks in this way until you have added the desired number of disks.
7.Press C to create the array. A menu appears.
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