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Configuring and Managing RAID
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If you have chosen to create hot spares in the earlier steps, a pop-up
window displays where drives with appropriate sizes are displayed.
Press the spacebar to select the drive size.
Select the check box to enable the enclosure affinity setting for the
hot spare.
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After you select the drive size, click OK to finalize the selection or
click Cancel to forfeit the selection.
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Select OK to accept the settings and press <Enter> to exit this
window or select Cancel and press <Enter> to exit if you do not want
to change any virtual disk parameters.
Initializing Virtual Disks
CAUTION:
A Full Initialization permanently destroys any existing data on
that drives.
Perform the following steps to initialize virtual disks.
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On the VD Mgmt screen, select Virtual Disk # and press <F2> to display
the menu of available actions.
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Select Initialization and press the right-arrow key to display the
Initialization submenu options.
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Select Start Init. to begin a regular initialization or select Fast Init. to
begin a fast initialization.
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A pop-up windows displays indicating that the virtual disk has been
initialized.
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Repeat the procedures in this section to configure another virtual disk.
The PERC 6 controllers support up to 64 virtual disks per controller.
The currently configured virtual disks display on the screen.
Checking Data Consistency
Select the Consistency Check (CC) option in the configuration utility to
verify the redundancy data in virtual disks that use RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
and 60. (RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy.)
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