Adjusting The Raid; Creating The System Mirror; Swap File And Data: Mirror - LaCie 5big Storage Server Technical Brief

LaCie Professional Server
Technical Brief: RAID

8.2. Adjusting the RAID

Administrators may change RAID configurations to suit the needs of
a business or after a server system recovery.
Launch Disk Management to view or change RAID configurations in
Windows Storage Server.
1. Click twice on the desktop shortcut Server Manager.
2. On the left side of the window, click once on the + sign to the
left of Storage.
3. Click once on Disk Management.

8.3. Creating the System Mirror

Please follow the steps in 7.3. 5big Storage Server Single Disk De-
fault Configuration, 7.4. Boot Order and Creating the System
and 7.5. Creating the System Mirror
Once the System mirror is created, return to section
and Data: Mirror to build the Swap and Data mirror.

8.4. Swap File and Data: Mirror

1. Launch Disk Management
see four disks similar to
or 3, please go to 3. Removing and Installing Disks
information on installing disks into the 5big enclosure. Please
make certain that the System volume has been mirrored before
continuing with the Swap volume.
Fig. 83
to create the System mirror.
8.4. Swap File
(8.2. Adjusting the RAID). You should
Fig. 83. If you do not see Disks 1, 2
for further
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IMPORTANT INFO:
Management will require formatting the disk. Any media that may
Mirror,
be stored on the new hard drives (Disk 1, Disk 2, and Disk 3) will be
deleted. Please consider backing up the drives before creating the
System, Swap, and Data volumes.
RAID - Four Disks
Creating a RAID configuration using Disk
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