Supermicro SBI-7425C-S3E, User Manual

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Chapter 5: RAID Setup Procedure
Using Easy Configuration
When you select the E
ASY
C
ONFIGURATION
option, the configuration utility creates one or
more arrays from the available physical drives and configures each array as a single
virtual drive. If virtual drives have already been configured, the configuration utility does
not change their configuration.
Follow the steps below to create a virtual drive using E
ASY
C
ONFIGURATION
:
1. Select C
ONFIGURATION
 E
ASY
C
ONFIGURATION
from the M
ANAGEMENT
menu.
A list of available (READY) physical drives appears.
2. Use the arrow keys to select the physical drives you want to include in the array.
a. Press the
SPACEBAR
to add each selected physical drive to the new array.
When you select a physical drive, its status changes from READY to ONLIN
A[
array number
]-[
drive number
]. For example,
ONLIN A00-01 means array 0, disk drive 1.
b. To create a global hotspare drive, highlight a READY disk drive and press F4.
Then select Y
ES
from the pop-up menu.
c. To define multiple arrays, select all the drives you want for the first array, then
press E
NTER
to start selecting drives for the second array, and so on.
When you have selected drives for all desired arrays, press F10.
3. Press the
SPACEBAR
to select an array.
The V
IRTUAL
D
RIVES
C
ONFIGURED
screen appears, as shown in Figure 5-2 . This
screen shows the virtual drive number, RAID level, virtual drive size, number of
stripes in the physical array, stripe size, and state of the virtual drive.
4. Press F10 again.