Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual page 5

5 SAS 3004 iMR ROMB Configuration Utility ............................................ 5-1
Flowchart of the utility ......................................................................................... 5-3
Key operation for the utility .................................................................................. 5-4
Handling error messages at the system boot ......................................................... 5-4
Procedure for handling error messages ........................................................... 5-4
Starting the utility ................................................................................................ 5-7
Viewing and setting information about the utility ................................................... 5-9
Window configuration of the utility ........................................................................ 5-9
Main Menu .................................................................................................... 5-9
Disk array controller settings .............................................................................. 5-21
Creating virtual drives ........................................................................................ 5-25
Creating RAID 0 or RAID 1 virtual drives ....................................................... 5-25
Initializing virtual drives ..................................................................................... 5-34
Slow initialization ......................................................................................... 5-34
Deleting virtual drives ........................................................................................ 5-37
To delete all virtual drives ............................................................................ 5-37
To delete virtual drives respectively .............................................................. 5-39
Consistency check on virtual drives ..................................................................... 5-41
Assigning Hotspare ............................................................................................ 5-41
Unassigning Hotspare ........................................................................................ 5-43
Rebuilding virtual drives ..................................................................................... 5-45
Displaying error messages at the system boot ..................................................... 5-46
Ending the utility ............................................................................................... 5-46
Drive with foreign configuration .......................................................................... 5-47
Importing the configuration information ........................................................ 5-49
Clearing the configuration information ................................................................. 5-51
Status ............................................................................................................... 5-52
Status of the virtual drive ............................................................................. 5-52
Status of the physical drive .......................................................................... 5-52
Error messages at the system boot ..................................................................... 5-53
6 LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility for disk arrays ......................... 6-1
Flowchart of the utility ......................................................................................... 6-3
Key operation for the utility .................................................................................. 6-3
Starting the utility ................................................................................................ 6-4
Window configuration of the utility ........................................................................ 6-5
Configuration Options: configuration options menu .......................................... 6-5
Controller Management: disk array controller management menu ..................... 6-6
Virtual Drive Management: virtual drive management menu ............................. 6-6
Drive Management: physical drive management menu ..................................... 6-7
Viewing and setting information about the utility ................................................... 6-8
View Controller Information: disk array controller information view ................... 6-8
Change Controller Properties: disk array controller settings .............................. 6-9
Manage Virtual Drive Properties: virtual drive information view ......................... 6-9
View Drive Properties: physical drive information view ................................... 6-12
Ending the utility ............................................................................................... 6-15
Virtual drive configuration .................................................................................. 6-16
To create RAID 1 ......................................................................................... 6-16
RAID 0: To create single physical drive configuration ..................................... 6-20
Initializing virtual drives ..................................................................................... 6-25
Fast initialization procedure .......................................................................... 6-26
Full initialization procedure ........................................................................... 6-31
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