Configure Server Drives For Os Installation; Drive Configuration Options - Oracle Sun Server X4-4 Installation Manual

Configure Server Drives for OS Installation

This section describes how to configure a server boot disk for operating system installation and
configure RAID.
Description
Learn about storage drive configuration options.
Supported options depend on your server's host bus
adapter (HBA), requirements for RAID, and whether or
not you have a preinstalled OS.
Configure server storage drives into RAID volumes
using Oracle System Assistant.
Configure server storage drives into RAID volumes
using the BIOS RAID configuration utilities.
Learn about the operating system installation and update
tasks.

Drive Configuration Options

Preparing a system drive to be a boot device for an operating system (OS) is a critical step in
the server set up process. The procedures used to configure RAID depend on which supported
SAS HBA is installed in the server and which server BIOS boot mode is selected (UEFI or
Legacy, see
(recommended) or BIOS/option ROM-based RAID configuration utilities to configure RAID.
Once you have installed your operating system, supported OS-based RAID management
utilities included with your server can be used to manage RAID storage drives.
Choose an option for configuring your server storage drives:
Option 1 - If you have purchased an optional factory preinstalled OS or virtual machine
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software image, a boot drive containing the image has already been created for you. You
cannot configure the disk with the preinstalled OS image as a RAID volume because that
"UEFI BIOS" on page 24
Links
"Drive Configuration Options" on page 79
"Configuring RAID Using Oracle System
Assistant" on page 81
"Configuring RAID Using the BIOS RAID
Configuration Utilities" on page 93
"Set Up an Operating System and
Drivers" on page 104
for details). You can use either Oracle System Assistant
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