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Maintaining Storage Confi gurations ................................................................ 4-2
4-2 Hardware and Software Requirements ................................................................ 4-2
4-3 Installation ............................................................................................................ 4-3
Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for Linux ............................ 4-6
Linux Error Messages ..................................................................................... 4-7
Chapter 5 MegaRAID Storage ManagerWindow and Menus
5-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software .................................................. 5-1
5-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window ................................................................. 5-4
Physical/Logical View Panel ........................................................................... 5-5
Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel .................................................. 5-6
Event Log Panel .............................................................................................. 5-6
Menu Bar ......................................................................................................... 5-7
File Menu .................................................................................................... 5-7
Operations Menu ........................................................................................ 5-7
Group Operations Menu ............................................................................. 5-7
Log Menu ................................................................................................... 5-8
Help Menu .................................................................................................. 5-8
Chapter 6 Confi guration
6-1 Creating a New Storage Confi guration ................................................................ 6-1
Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters .......................................................... 6-3
Using Auto Confi guration ................................................................................ 6-4
Using Guided Confi guration ............................................................................ 6-5
Using Manual Confi guration: RAID 0 .............................................................. 6-8
Using Manual Confi guration: RAID 1 ............................................................ 6-10
Using Manual Confi guration: RAID 5 ............................................................ 6-12
Using Manual Confi guration: RAID 10 .......................................................... 6-13
Using Manual Confi guration: RAID 50 .......................................................... 6-14
6-2 Adding Hotspare Disks ...................................................................................... 6-15
6-3 Changing Adjustable Task Rates ....................................................................... 6-16
6-4 Changing Virtual Disk Properties ....................................................................... 6-17
6-5 Deleting a Virtual Disk ....................................................................................... 6-17
6-6 Saving a Storage Confi guration to Disk ............................................................ 6-18
6-7 Clearing a Storage Confi guration from a Controller .......................................... 6-18
6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Confi guration ............................................................. 6-19