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Figure 47. The ServeRAID Configuration Program
3. We recommend you reset the ServeRAID controller to its factory default
settings before configuring it. Right-click the controller (or each controller in
turn if you have more than one) and choose Restore the Factory Default
Settings. Confirm the operation. A message indicating the controller has been
restored to the factory default settings will appear in the message panel at the
bottom of the window.
Note: This will erase any previous configuration and will destroy all data on
those disks.
4. Configure your arrays and logical drives. Refer to the ServeRAID user’s guide
or online Help for information on how to use the configuration program. In our
example, we created one array with a RAID-1 logical drive for the operating
system and a RAID-5E logical drive for data storage.
The simplest way to configure the ServeRAID adapter is to use the Express
Configuration option as shown in Figure 47. This option will configure your
arrays based on the number of drives you have installed.
Express configuration groups up to 16 ready drives of the same capacity into
one disk array and defines one logical drive for each array. It defines the size
of the logical drive based on the amount of free space available and it assigns
the highest RAID level possible, based on the number of physical drives
available (that is, RAID-5 for three-16 drives, RAID-1 for two drives, RAID-0 for
one drive). If there are more than 16 drives of the same capacity, it will configure
the first 16 for the first array, the next 16 for another array, and so on. Express
configuration does not create any drives using RAID-5E.
When there are four or more ready drives of the same capacity, Express
defines one of them as a hot-spare. If more than one group of drives contains
more than four drives, only one hot-spare is created from the largest drive size.
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