Preparation Steps For Netware 5.X - HP P3410A - NetRAID 1M RAID Controller Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 7
In most installations, the operating system is installed on a SCSI drive connected
outside of the HP NetRAID system. However, NetWare 5.x can reside on a disk
array in the HP NetRAID system to achieve redundancy.
for NetWare 5.x
Preparation Steps
This section makes the following assumptions:
You have already configured your HP NetRAID system as discussed in
Chapter 5. You should have created only one logical drive per array.
You have initialized your logical drives.
NOTE
It is important to initialize your logical drives. If the drives
have been previously configured under an operating system,
there can sometimes be residual partition/format information
that subsequently causes misrepresentation of logical drives
under NetWare 5.x.
You already installed NetWare 5.x as discussed in Chapter 6,
"HP NetRAID Software."
The only other requirement to prepare for online capacity expansion of your
logical drive is that virtual sizing is disabled. This is the factory default setting.
If Virtual Sizing is Disabled (the factory default setting), no other
preparation is necessary.
If Virtual Sizing is Enabled, disable virtual sizing in HP NetRAID
Express Tools, as described below.
To Disable Virtual Sizing
NOTE
sizing setting for a logical drive.
disables virtual sizing for all logical drives.
the setting.
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Preparing for Online Capacity Expansion
Clearing a previous configuration does not reset the virtual
Using the Reset to Factory Defaults option in Express Tools
To enable virtual sizing for a logical drive, manually change