RAID Configuration Functions

NOTE: Dell OpenManage Storage Management can perform all the same tasks as and more tasks than the BIOS Configuration Utility.

After you attach physical disks, use a configuration utility to organize your SAS drives and SATA drives into virtual disks. If the operating system is not yet installed, use the BIOS Configuration Utility to perform this procedure.

NOTE: The PERC 6 controllers support Dell-qualified SATA physical disks.

Use the configuration utilities to perform the following tasks:

Access controllers, virtual disks, and physical disks individually

Select a host controller to work on

Create hot spare physical disks

Configure virtual disks

Initialize one or more virtual disks

Perform consistency checks

Rebuild failed physical disks

Preserve the cache data, known as pinned cache, from a virtual disk that goes offline or is deleted for any reason

The following sections describe the menu options and provide detailed instructions used to perform the configuration tasks. They apply to the BIOS Configuration Utility. The following is a list of the procedures used to configure physical disks into virtual disks.

1Define virtual disks using a group of physical disks.

NOTE: A disk group is deleted when the last virtual disk in the disk group is deleted.

2Designate hot spares (optional).

For more information, see "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares" on page 94.

3Save the configuration information.

4Initialize the virtual disks.

For the detailed configuration procedures, see "Physical Disk Management" on page 104.

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Dell UCP-61, UCC-60, UCP-60 manual RAID Configuration Functions

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