117 Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
Configuring SAS RAID Daughter Board:S
This section briefly shows how to create RAID 5 with SAS RAID daughter board
(with i-Button).
Starting LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID Configuration Utility
To start LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID Configuration Utility for MegaRAID SAS RAID
daughter board, press CTRL-M when you see the RAID BIOS during POST. After
POST finished, the Adapter Selection page will show on the screen. Please click
on Start to launch the configuration menu.
Loading Factory default setting
1.
Select Objects from Management menu.
2.
Select Adapter from Objects. The selectable adapter will be listed.
3.
Press Enter on the adapter and the adapter setting will be shown on the
screen. 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.
Creating a RAID volume
1.
Select Configuration from Management Menu.
2.
Select New Configuration from the Configuration menu. An array
selection window displays the devices connected to the current controller
.
3.
Press the arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press spacebar
to associate the selected drive with the current array. The indicator for
selected drive change from READY to ONLINE
.
4.
After you adding the drives to current array, press Enter to finish creating
current array.
5.
Press Enter again to select array to configure.
6.
Press spacebar to select the array and press F10 to configure the logical
drive
7.
Select Accept and press Enter to use the default setting for the RAID
volume.
8.
Press Enter to end the array configuration.
9.
Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the
Configuration menu.
10.
Press ESC to return to the Management Menu
APPENDIX C: SAS RAID
DAUGHTER BOARD
CONFIGURATION UTILITY
