Configuring Raid With Intel Virtual Raid On Cpu - Lenovo ThinkStation P920 Hardware Maintenance Manual

To delete a RAID volume, do the following:
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See "Starting the Setup Utility program" on page 67.
2. Select Advanced ➙ AVAGO MegaRAID Configuration Utility.
3. Select Main Menu and press Enter.
4. Select Virtual Drive Management and press Enter.
5. Select the RAID volume that is not needed and press Enter.
6. Under Operation, select Delete Virtual Drive and press Enter.
7. Select Go and press Enter. When prompted, select Confirm and press Enter. Then, select Yes and
press Enter to delete the RAID volume.
8. To save settings and exit the Setup Utility program, press F10 or Fn+F10 (depending on the keyboard
settings), select Yes in the window displayed, and press Enter.

Configuring RAID with Intel Virtual RAID on CPU

To configure RAID with the Intel Virtual RAID on CPU configuration utility, ensure that:
• An upgrade key module is connected to the Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC) connector on the system board.
See "Hardware locations" on page 29.
• M.2 solid-state drives are installed in your computer.
Storage drive requirements for RAID levels
Your computer supports the following RAID levels:
• RAID 0: striped disk array
– Consists of at least two M.2 solid-state drives
– Supported strip size: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB
– Better performance without fault tolerance
• RAID 1: mirrored disk array
– Consists of two M.2 solid-state drives
– Improved reading performance and 100% redundancy
• RAID 10: striped and mirrored disk array (a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1)
– Consists of four M.2 solid-state drives
– Supported strip size: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, or 64 KB
• RAID 5: block-level striped disk array with distributed parity
– Consists of at least three M.2 solid-state drives
– Supported strip size: 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB
– Better performance and fault tolerance
– Available only on some models of upgrade key modules
Creating a RAID volume
Attention: All the existing data stored on the selected drives will be erased while the RAID volume is being
created.
To create a RAID volume, do the following:
1. Enable VMD for the selected M.2 solid-state drives by doing the following:
a. Start the Setup Utility program. See "Starting the Setup Utility program" on page 67.
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