Creating A Spare Bootable Hard Disk; Booting From A Spare Bootable Hard Disk - NEC Express5800/320Ma Software Installation And Configuration Manual

5. In your disk-management tool, convert this disk to a dynamic disk and add the
volumes to the volume mirrors. See the online Help for your disk-management tool.
6. Wait for the disks to resynchronize before continuing. When the volume mirrors are
synchronized, on the other disk of the pair, remove the volumes from the mirrored
volume.
7. Revert this disk to basic.
8. In ftSMC, add this physical disk to the RDR virtual disk. See
Disks in Internal Storage" on page

Creating a Spare Bootable Hard Disk

1. Immediately after the upgrade, mirror the system disk as described in
to Mirror Disks in Internal Storage" on page
2. After the disks have synchronized, deport the disk that is the mirror of the system
disk.
To deport the disk, open ftServer Management Console (ftSMC), right-click the disk
you want to deport, and click Deport Physical Disk from RDR Virtual Disk. For
more information, see the Help for ftSMC.
3. Physically remove the mirrored system disk from the system. Label and store this
disk, which is now the spare bootable hard disk, in a safe place.
4. Insert another disk in the same slot and mirror the system disk as described in
"Using RDR to Mirror Disks in Internal Storage" on page
system.
Related Topic
"Booting from a Spare Bootable Hard Disk" on page 3-13

Booting from a Spare Bootable Hard Disk

1. Remove power from the system.
2. Remove the two copies of the system disk.
3. Insert the spare disk and restart the system.
3-8.
3-8.
Mirroring Disks
"Using RDR to Mirror
"Using RDR
3-8. Leave this disk in the
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