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Configuring RAID devices

This chapter describes how to configure SAS and SATA RAID devices, and includes these topics:

Topics

Maximum hard drive configurations

Configuring SATA RAID devices

Configuring SAS RAID devices

For additional information about configuring RAIDs, see

http://www.hp.com/support/RAID_FAQs

. For

information about preparing the workstation for RAID configuration, see

http://www.hp.com/support/

workstation_manuals

Maximum hard drive configurations

This section lists the maximum number of hard drives supported on HP workstations for RAID
configurations.

NOTE:

This section applies to internal workstation configurations that do not use add-in cards and

JBODs.

TIP:

Use the table values to determine workstation-specific maximum number of hard drives as

discussed the sections below.

Table 7-1

Maximum hard drives

Workstation

SATA hard drive

SATA SFF

hard drive

SAS hard drive

Z800

Z600

Z400

Small form factor hard drive

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Maximum hard drive configurations

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Page 1: ...p com support workstation_manuals Maximum hard drive configurations This section lists the maximum number of hard drives supported on HP workstations for RAID configurations NOTE This section applies to internal workstation configurations that do not use add in cards and JBODs TIP Use the table values to determine workstation specific maximum number of hard drives as discussed the sections below T...

Page 2: ... does not execute Associated messages are not displayed The Intel SATA AHCI BIOS executes when you select RAID AHCI for the SATA emulation mode This BIOS is only used to support serial attached optical drives This section does not apply to configuring SATA RAID in the Linux environment For Linux SATA RAID refer to the Software RAID in Linux Workstations section in the HP Workstations for Linux Use...

Page 3: ...F10 7 Use the arrows to highlight Advanced Power On Options and then press Enter 8 Use the up or down arrow key to highlight POST Messages 9 Use the left or right arrow key to select Enable 10 To accept the new setting press F10 11 Use the arrow keys to highlight Advanced Device Options and then press Enter 12 Use the up or down arrow key to highlight SATA RAID Option ROM Download and then press E...

Page 4: ...evel field and then press Tab 6 To display the Select dialog press Enter 7 Use the up and down arrow keys and Space to mark individual physical as members of the volume 8 To exit the Select dialog and return to the Create Volume Menu dialog press Enter 9 If appropriate use the up or down arrow key to select the Strip Size in the Strip Size field and then press Tab 10 Enter the desired volume size ...

Page 5: ...o the workstation specific maximum number of internal SAS hard disk drives LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager MSM for Windows The following RAID configurations are supported on this workstation RAID 0 Striped disk array IS Two drive minimum Improved I O performance No fault tolerance RAID 1 Mirrored disk array IM Two drives 100 redundancy Can recover from single drive failure Improved read performance R...

Page 6: ...select Create IS Volume Press Enter to go to the Create New Array screen 6 In the Create New Array screen use the arrow keys to select the first disk for the IS volume Then use the arrow keys to move to the RAID Disk column for this disk and press Space and or to select Yes as the value for this column If partitions are defined on the selected disk a message appears warning you that data on the di...

Page 7: ... the primary disk for the IM volume the disk with the data you want to mirror b Use the arrow keys to move to the RAID Disk column for this disk and press Space to select Yes as the value If partitions are defined on the selected disk a message appears warning you that data on the disk will be lost when the mirrored volume is created c Press M to migrate or D to delete the data on the drive d The ...

Page 8: ...ata on the disk will be lost when the mirrored volume is created c Press M to migrate or D to delete the data on the drive d Use the arrow keys to select the next disk for the IME volume and then select Yes as the value for the Array Disk column If partitions are defined on this disk a message warns you that data on the disk will be lost when the mirrored volume is created e Press Delete to confir...

Page 9: ...e arrow keys to select Manage Array Press Enter 6 In the Manage Array screen use the arrow keys to select Delete Array Press Enter Press Y to delete the array and exit to the adapter properties screen ENWW Configuring SAS RAID devices ...

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