Acer AT350 F1 Series, User Manual

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Appendix A Server management tools 120
Assigning a Hot Spare Drive
A hot spare is a hard disk drive that automatically replaces any failed
drive in a RAID volume, and can subsequently be used to rebuild the
RAID volume.
1
Select Array Configuration Utility option.
2 Select Add/Delete Hotspare.
3 The Select drives to assign Spare is displayed.
4 Select the desired hard drive disk and then press <Ins> to add it in
the Assigned Hotspare drives area.
5 Press <Enter> to complete the selection.
6 Press <Y> when "Do you want to create a spare? (Yes/No):" is
displayed.
7 A hot spare drive is now created, you can press <Esc> to exit.
MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP Creation
Configuring MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP
This section briefly shows how to create RAID volume with MegaRAID
SAS 8204ELP.
Entering MegaRAID SAS RAID Configuration Utility
To start MegaRAID SAS RAID Configuration Utility for MegaRAID SAS
8204ELP, press <Ctrl> + <M> when you see the RAID BIOS during POST.
Loading factory default setting
1 Select Objects from Management menu.
2 Select Adapter from Objects. The screen shows a list of available
adapters.
3 Select an adapter and press <Enter>. The screen shows the adapter
settings. You can change the setting from this menu.
4 Select Factory Default and Yes to load the default settings.
5 Exit the configuration utility and press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Del> to
reboot the server.