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3. Perform one of the following steps:
• Click
Preview
to preview the
foreign configurations. The
Foreign Configuration Preview
screen appears, as shown in
the right figure.
• Click Clear to clear the foreign
configurations and reuse the
drives for another virtual drive.
If you click Cancel, it cancels the
importation or preview of the foreign
configuration.
The right panel shows the virtual drive properties of the foreign configuration.
In this example, there are two RAID1 virtual drives with 67.843GB each. The
left panel shows the drives in the foreign configuration.
4. Click Import
to import this foreign configuration(s) and use it on this
controller.
Foreign Configurations in Cable Pull and Disk Removal Scenarios
If one or more drives are removed from a configuration, by a cable pull or
drive removal, for example, the configuration on those drives is considered a
foreign configuration by the RAID controller.
Use the Foreign Configuration Preview screen to import or clear the
foreign configuration in each case.
The following scenarios can occur with cable pulls or physical drive removals.
If you want to import the foreign configuration in any of the following scenarios,
you should have all the drives in the enclosure before you perform the import
operation.
1. Scenario #1: If all of the drives in a configuration are removed
and re-inserted, the controller considers the drives to have foreign
configurations.
Import or clear the foreign configuration. If you select
Import, automatic
rebuilds will occur in redundant virtual drives.
Start a consistency check immediately after the rebuild is complete to ensure
data integrity for the virtual drives.
2. Select a configuration or
All Configurations.
