60 | 4 Configuring the system |
Assign Hot Spare Disk
1Select Add/View Configuration from Configuration menu.
2Press arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press <F4> to set the drive as Hot Spare Disk. Select YES to confirm and the indicator for selected drive change from READY to HOTSP.
3Press <Esc> to end the array configuration.
4Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the Configure menu.
Initialize RAID Volume
1Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
2Select Initialize from Management menu. All logical drives should be listed under Logical Drives.
3Press <Spacebar> to select drives for initialization. The selected drive will be shown in yellow.
4After selecting the drives, press <F10> and select YES to start the initialization process.
5When initialization is complete, press any key to continue.
6Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
Save And Exit MegaRAID Configuration Utility
1When RAID configuration and initialization is complete, press <Esc> in the Management Menu and select YES to exit the MegaRAID Configuration Utility.
2Press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Del> to reboot the server. Now you can start installing an OS on the RAID array.
