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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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