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6. Identify which adapters you are going to team. Left-click the adapter under
Network Components, and select one of the adapters that will be part of the
teaming.
7. Right-click the adapter → Add to Team → Create New Team... .
8. Select the type of team to create.
9. Select the adapters to add to the team from the list, and then click Next .
10. Verify that these settings are correct, and then click Finish .
11. Perform Steps 1 on page 84 through 10 for the other node.
This procedure creates a device named Intel Advanced Network Services Virtual
Adapter. It also binds all network protocols that were bound to the physical adapters
that were added to the team to this virtual adapter and unbinds those protocols
from the physical adapters. If you delete the team, the settings will return to the
state prior to creating the team.
For complete help on adapter teaming, from Intel PROSet II, click Network
Components , and then select Help from the Help menu.
RAID-1 mirroring
The NAS Gateway 300 hardware has a RAID-1 mirroring option using the onboard
SCSI adapter. The System and Maintenance partitions are mirrored using two
36-GB hard drives to provide increased reliability and failover capability. This feature
provides physical mirroring of the boot volume through firmware, thus providing
extra reliability for the system’s boot volume without burdening the host CPU.
To enable RAID-1 mirroring:
1. Power OFF the appliance (see “Shutting down and powering on the NAS
Gateway 300” on page 87).
2. Attach a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the first engine.
3. Ensure that there are two hard disk drives in the appliance engine.
4. Power ON the appliance.
5. When the LSI Logic BIOS starts and displays Press CTRL-C to start LSI Logic
Configuration Utility , press CTRL and C .
6. Press Enter to select channel 1.
7. Select Mirroring Properties and press Enter .
8. Press the space bar to to change No to Primary in the column labeled Mirrored
Pair .
9. Press Esc .
10. Select Save changes then exit this menu and press Enter . The drives will
begin to synchronize.
11. Press Esc .
12. Select Exit the Configuration Utility and press Enter .
13. The engine will reboot automatically.
14. Repeat this process for the other engine.
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