IBM 866011U - Netfinity 5500 - 8660, Hardware Maintenance Manual

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To synchronize logical drives:
1. Select Initialize/Synchronize Log Drive from the
Main Menu of the ServeRAID Configuration program;
then, press Enter.
2. Select Synchronize Logical Drive from the next
menu; then, press Enter.
3. Use the Up Arrow (
↑
) or Down Arrow (
↓
) key to
highlight the logical drive that you want to
synchronize; then, press the Spacebar to select the
drive. Continue doing this until you have selected all
of the drives that you want to synchronize; then,
press Enter.
4. When the Confirm pop-up window appears, select
Yes to synchronize the logical drive or drives; then,
press Enter.
The synchronization progress appears in the Pct.
Syn. (percent synchronized) column of the Logical
Drive list.
Note
Once the synchronization process begins, it
cannot be interrupted.
5. Once you have completed synchronizing the logical
drives, then you have completed the required steps
for creating a ServeRAID configuration.
6. When the synchronization process completes, back
up the disk-array configuration information to diskette.
See “Backing up the disk-array configuration” on
page 126 for instructions.
If you have not already done so, use the information
provided in the ServerGuide package to install the
operating system.
Defining hot-spare drives:
A hot-spare (HSP) drive
is a hard disk drive that is defined for automatic use when
a similar drive fails. The drive capacity of the HSP drive
must be equal to or greater than the capacity of the drive
being replaced.
Notes:
1. If you want to have a hot-spare drive (HSP) or a
standby hot-spare drive (SHS) and also assign RAID
level 5 to one of the logical drives, you must have at
least four hard disk drives.
2. In the event of a drive failure in an array that contains
a logical drive assigned RAID level 0, the ServeRAID
controller will not activate a hot-spare drive.
You can use the Create/Delete/Copy/Log menu to define a
RDY drive as a hot-spare drive. Or, you can change the
state of a SBY, DHS, SHS, or RDY drive to HSP (see
“Changing device states” on page 116).
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