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b. The enclosure bus cables must be connected to the same channel on each
controller. For example, the enclosure bus #1 cable is connected to Channel
1 on the active controller, and the enclosure bus #2 cable is connected to
Channel 1 on the passive controller
2. Restart the server with the IBM ServeRAID Support CD (or the configuration CD
that came with your server) in the CD-ROM drive.
Configuring ServeRAID arrays and logical drives
Complete the following steps to configure arrays and logical drives on the active
controller:
1. On the toolbar, click ( Configure RAID ). The Configuration wizard opens.
2. In the ServeRAID Manager tree, click the ServeRAID controller that you want
to configure as the active controller.
3. Click Custom configuration .
4. Click Next . The “Create arrays” window opens. If you want to create spanned
arrays, go to step 2 of “Creating spanned arrays” on page 59.
Figure 22. Configuration wizard
Chapter 6. Configuring two ServeRAID controllers in a failover environment
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