Initializing A Virtual Drive; Erasing A Virtual Drive - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
The choices are HDD and SSD. Combining HDDs and SSDs in a virtual drive is not supported.
7. (Optional) To change the default Select Interface Type value, highlight this field, press Enter, and select an
option from the pop-up menu.
The choices are SAS, SATA, and Both. Depending on the configuration of your system, combining SAS and SATA
drives in a virtual drive might not be supported.
8. To select physical drives to add to the virtual drive, highlight drives and press the spacebar. A small red arrow at
the bottom of the dialog indicates you can scroll down to view more drives.
Alternatively, use the Check All and Uncheck All options at the bottom of the list of drives to select or deselect all
available drives.
9. When you have selected all the drives to add to the virtual drive, highlight Apply Changes and press Enter.
The HII utility returns you to the Reconfigure Virtual Drives dialog.
10. Highlight Start Operation and press Enter to implement the changes to the virtual drive.
5.5.1.4

Initializing a Virtual Drive

To initialize a virtual drive, perform these steps:
1. Highlight Fast Initialization or Slow Initialization on the pop-up menu and press Enter.
A fast initialization overwrites the first and last 8 MB of the virtual drive, clearing any boot records or partition
information. A slow (full) initialization overwrites all blocks and destroys all data on the virtual drive.
2. Highlight the word Go that appears beneath Operation and press Enter.
The Initialize Virtual Drive Warning dialog appears.
3. Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation, then highlight Yes and press Enter.
The initialization process begins on the virtual drive.
5.5.1.5

Erasing a Virtual Drive

To erase data on a virtual drive, perform these steps:
NOTE The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display
in one dialog. The amount of information that can be displayed in one
dialog depends on the capabilities of the HII browser.
NOTE Be sure to select the number of drives required by the specified RAID
level; otherwise the HII utility displays an error message when you try
to create the virtual drive. For example, RAID 1 virtual drives use
exactly two drives and RAID 5 virtual drives use three or more drives.
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NOTE If you selected drives of varying sizes, the HII utility displays a message
warning you that the remaining free capacity on the larger drives will
be unusable.
NOTE All data on the virtual drive is lost when you initialize it. Before you
start this operation, back up any data that you want to keep.
CAUTION All data on the virtual drive is lost when you erase it. Before you start
this operation, back up any data that you want to keep.
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Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Virtual Drives