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D.  Deleting a RAID Array 

 
NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array. To delete an Array, please do the   
following.  

A.  Launch the NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you 

want to delete (assuming that you have a RAID array already 

created) as shown 

in the following screen shot. 

 

 

The above screen shot shows that there is a Mirrored array that will be deleted. After 
the “Delete Array...” has been selected, the following screen shot appear.   

 

 

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Страница 1: ...4 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 1 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions 6 1 4 Create Disk Array 8 2 NVIDIA Windows...

Страница 2: ...Independent Disks which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit For optimal performance please install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a...

Страница 3: ...processing relational database applications enterprise resource planning and other business systems Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup 1 2 RAID Configurations Precaution...

Страница 4: ...AID array WARNING Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions In the process you create RAID the system will ask if you want to Clear Disk Data or not It is recommended to select Ye...

Страница 5: ...ATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set Up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration B Set the SATA Operation Mode option to IDE STEP 2 Make a SATA...

Страница 6: ...according to the mode you choose and the OS you install 1 3 2 Installing Windows VistaTM VistaTM 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows VistaTM Windows VistaTM 64 bit on your SATA S...

Страница 7: ...Ds you still need to set up SATA Operation Mode to RAID in BIOS first Then please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the following path in the Support CD RAID I...

Страница 8: ...ew seconds to press F10 before the window disappears After you press F10 the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window appears By default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring but please set it to Stripin...

Страница 9: ...s The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk A Tab to the Free Disks section The...

Страница 10: ...master slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc location columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists For example 1 0 M 1 Channel Typically channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drives whil...

Страница 11: ...there are different installation procedures Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Users A Enter...

Страница 12: ...to create RAID arrays The RAID items which may be mentioned in this section are as below RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirroring JBOD Spanning RAID 5 In this section we take RAID 0...

Страница 13: ...13 D Click Next and the following screen shot will appear E Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping and leave the Stripe Size with its default value as shown in the following screen shot...

Страница 14: ...14 F Click Next and the following screen shot will appear G Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set...

Страница 15: ...and the following screen shot will appear I Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear The RAID 0 is created successfully C Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two disk array has...

Страница 16: ...creen is displayed E The 153 38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier To create a partition on it right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition F Follow the...

Страница 17: ...NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete assuming that you have a RAID array already created as shown in the following screen shot The above screen shot shows th...

Страница 18: ...ies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 RAID 0 1 as well as a RAID 5 For example assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fail then you need to replace the failed dri...

Страница 19: ...19 D Click Next The Disk Selection page appears E Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list then click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears...

Страница 20: ...irrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedicated Disk G Synchronizing a RAID Array Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity The operation is applicable to any fault...

Страница 21: ...llation Guide for Windows Vista Vista 64 bit Users A Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD After you finish the driver installation you can create d...

Страница 22: ...22 Click Create array Then you can start to build up RAID B Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear...

Страница 23: ...the type of RAID array to create You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next Here we take Striping RAID 0 for example to show you how to use Storage to create Striping RAID 0 If you plan to...

Страница 24: ...e RAID Mode you are allowed to select the Stripe Size The default value of this item is 64K Then click Next Select the disks to add to the new RAID array and click Next Select the disk with data to pr...

Страница 25: ...ps of creating RAID array C Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two disk array has been created it needs to be partitioned and formatted A Click on Start Settings Control Panel B Double click...

Страница 26: ...Right click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done you can start using the newly created stripped arr...

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