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CONfIgURINg RAID 100 ON TS130

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To learn more go to

 www.lenovo.com/thinkserver

3.  Clicking on the RAID Volume icon provides access to additional details about the  

 

 

array, and enables various management tasks. 

4.  Clicking on the physical disk icon provides access to additional details about the HDD.

5.  In the “Preferences” tab, System Preferences allows configuration of the types of    
 

notifications to be indicated locally in the system tray notification icon (see the 

6.  Appendix – Monitor Service Event Detection for a list of supported events).

 

Select from the choices provided or disable notifications completely. 

7.  In the “Preferences” tab, E-mail Preferences enables configuring the platform to    
 

send alert emails for each storage subsystem event that gets reported by the RST    

 

monitor service (see the 

Summary of Contents for ThinkServer RAID 100

Page 1: ... 07 Matrix RAID 07 Delete RAID Volume 07 Reset Disks to Non RAID 07 RAID Ready 07 Recovery Volume 07 Driver Installation 07 Manually Installing the Driver During OS Installation 07 Manually Installing the Driver After OS Installation 09 Managing ThinkServer RAID 100 on TS130 10 Installing the Storage Management Console 11 Using the Storage Management Console 13 Appendix Monitor Service Event Detec...

Page 2: ...k drive or virtual drive The RAID level will be assigned to the array Choosing the RAID Level The RAID configuration selected should be based on consideration of several factors the most important being performance and fault tolerance Maximize virtual drive performance by creating a RAID 0 array with striping Data is broken into segments and is simultaneously written to or read from several differ...

Page 3: ... capacity equal to that of the smaller hard drive2 1 2 This capacity statement assumes that only one RAID volume is configured in the array Two RAID volumes are supported per array see the section on Matrix RAID for more information This section provides a basic overview of the steps required to setup and configure a RAID array on TS130 BIOS Setup Configure BIOS for RAID operation The SATA control...

Page 4: ...ot be available Hard Disk Pre delay can be set to Disabled the default 6 To accept the changes press F10 and select Yes when prompted to Save Configuration and Exit Configure RAID using the pre boot configuration utility 1 If BIOS was just configured for RAID operation the TS130 will soon restart itself Otherwise reboot the TS130 If two HDD s are installed and the SATA controller was configured fo...

Page 5: ...w keys to select from the menu 1 Create RAID Volume and press ENTER key to enter the Create Volume Menu 3 Type a name for the new RAID volume to be created In this example the default Volume0 is used 4 Press TAB to move to the next entry Select the RAID Level from the selection using the up and down arrow keys In this example select RAID0 Stripe 5 Press TAB to move to the next entry Enter the stri...

Page 6: ...D 1 volume on the same disks 7 Press TAB to highlight Create Volume and Press ENTER to create the specified volume A warning message will pop up on screen Confirm that any previous data on the drives is no longer needed Press Y to create the new RAID volume or press N to cancel the operation 8 After the RAID volume is created the main menu is displayed Disk Volume Information displays key informat...

Page 7: ...d Storage User Interface Management Console GUI application This process does not require the reinstallation of the operating system All applications and data will remain intact Recovery Volume A recovery volume is a RAID like configuration that utilizes RAID 1 functionality to copy data from a designated Master drive to a designated Recovery drive The data on the master drive is configured to upd...

Page 8: ...ight require changes to allow CD ROM booting See your system documentation 2 Begin the Operating System installation selecting the language the OS version to install and finally reading and accepting the license agreement 3 When presented with the screen What type of installation do you want select Custom advanced install 4 To install the driver click Load Driver 5 Insert the media that contains t...

Page 9: ...stallation Manually Installing the Driver after OS Installation Perform the following steps to install the device driver after the OS has been installed or to upgrade a driver to a newer version The driver installation automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to the appropriate directory 1 To install the driver manually launch the Device Manager in the Operating System 2...

Page 10: ... User Interface software is a utility that enables configuration monitoring and maintenance of storage configurations This section gives a basic overview of the storage management console how to manage arrays and how to setup alerts and notifications Additional information is available from the Help menu from within the application Rapid Storage Technology User Interface can be downloaded from the...

Page 11: ...enables the creation and deletion of RAID volumes as well as other configuration and management features that the pre boot Configuration Utility does not support Microsoft NET 3 5 is a prerequisite to the installation of the management console Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 already includes the installation of NET 3 5 but it must be enabled prior versions of Windows Server OS require that it be ...

Page 12: ...Configuring RAID 100 on TS130 12 To learn more go to www lenovo com thinkserver 4 Click Next 5 Click Next 6 Click Install 7 Installation of the selected features and roles will begin ...

Page 13: ...d Using the Storage Management Console The Storage management Console can be used to locally manage RAID volumes and member drives as well as configure alerts and notifications This section gives a basic overview of these capabilities 1 When the system is active a notification icon in the system tray reports basic health status of the RAID array and the member drives Clicking the icon will open th...

Page 14: ...DD 5 In the Preferences tab System Preferences allows configuration of the types of notifications to be indicated locally in the system tray notification icon see the 6 Appendix Monitor Service Event Detection for a list of supported events Select from the choices provided or disable notifications completely 7 In the Preferences tab E mail Preferences enables configuring the platform to send alert...

Page 15: ...oices provided to choose the types of notifications to be sent to an email address or disable notifications completely If notifications are selected also provide the e mail configuration settings SMTP host required Port required Return email address required Recipient email addresses one address required up to 3 maximum Test e mails can be sent to all addresses specified ...

Page 16: ...ifyStarted Info Volume n Verification in progress Yes No No VerifyAndRepairStarted Info Volume n Verification and repair in progress Yes No No MigrationStarted Info Volume n Data migration in progress Yes No No InitializeStarted Info Volume n Initialization in progress Yes No No General Events Server start failed Error Server failed to start Additional information No Yes Yes Event manager started ...

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