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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
•Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card
•Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system
•Configuring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system
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
4.Converting a
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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