Dell UCSA-901, UCSE-900, UCPA-901, UCSB-900, UCPB-900 manual Getting started with your Perc card

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Getting started with your PERC card

The workflows outlined below list the procedures to getting started with the PERC card, based on your system configuration:

•Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system

•Installing the PERC card on a system with the operating system pre-installed

•Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card pre-installed

•Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system pre-installed

•Configuring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system pre-installed

Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system

1.Install the PERC 9 card in the system. For more information, see Deploying the PERC card.

2.Download the PERC 9 drivers from the Dell support site. For more information, see dell.com/ support.

3.Use any of the PERC management applications to create the virtual disks and RAID configurations you require using the procedures listed below:

a.Importing Or Clearing Secured Foreign Configurations And Secure Disk Migration

b.Managing physical disks

1.Creating Global Hot Spares

2.Creating Security Key

3.Converting a RAID disk to a Non-RAID disk. For more information, see Controller management.

4.Converting a Non-RAID disk to a RAID disk. For more information, see Controller management.

c.Creating virtual disks

d.Managing virtual disks

1.Setting up virtual disks

2.Checking Data Consistency

3.Managing Preserved Cache

4.Initializing virtual disks

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