Connecting The Expansion Enclosures; Configuring Logical Drives - IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3H Installation And User Manual

Note: Disregard the instructions to remove the IBM ServeRAID Support CD (or the configuration CD
that came with your system) from the CD-ROM drive; do not remove the CD.
9. Select Exit from the File menu to exit the ServeRAID Manager program.
10. Shut down the system.

Connecting the expansion enclosures

After you configure the controllers, you must connect the expansion enclosures to the ServeRAID
controllers.
1. Connect the expansion enclosure to each of the ServeRAID controllers.
Important
When connecting the cables, you must connect the same channel connectors on both ServeRAID
controllers to the same expansion enclosure. For example, if you connect the cable from Channel
1 on the first ServeRAID controller to the first expansion enclosure, then you must connect the
cable from Channel 1 on the second ServeRAID controller to the first expansion enclosure.
2. Restart the system with the IBM ServeRAID Support CD still in the CD-ROM drive.

Configuring logical drives

Note: You can create only one logical drive per array in a failover environment.
To configure a logical drive, do the following:
1. Click the ServeRAID controller that you want to configure in the Main Tree.
Click on the tool bar.
2. Click the Custom configuration radio button.
3. Click Next.
4. Define your logical drives by doing one of the following:
Using the right mouse button, click on the drive or SCSI channel icons in the Main Tree to select
the drives that you want to add to your arrays or delete from your arrays; then, select a choice
from the pop-up list.
or
Drag the drive or SCSI channel icon from the Main Tree and drop it on the Array icon in the Main
Panel on the right. If you change your mind, you can drag the icons back to the Main Tree to
remove them from the configuration.
Note: You must use all the Ready drives when creating your arrays (that is, all Ready drives in the
Main Tree must be Online).
5. After you select the Ready drives for your arrays, click Next.
If you change your mind, you can remove a specific drive from a newly defined array or delete an
entire newly defined array. To do this:
a. Click Back.
b. Using the right mouse button, click on the specific drive or Array icon in the Main Panel on the
right.
c. Select Remove from new array or Delete new array.
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