Mirroring The Preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 Os With Lsi Raid - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450 Installation Manual

RAID Drive Options
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SAS
Card Drives Supported
LSI Seagate 73 GB SAS
3081E
Fujitsu 73 GB SAS
Seagate 146 GB SAS
Mirroring the Preinstalled Windows Server 2003
R2 OS with LSI RAID
The Windows Server 2003 R2 OS supports hardware RAID and cannot be installed
on an existing array if one has been created. Refer to the Sun Fire X4450 Server
Operating System Installation Guide or an HBA card product guide.
If you choose the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS and want to make the OS
part of a RAID set, and if you are using LSI RAID only, perform the following
procedure to update the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS to a mirrored
RAID set. As stated in
primary hard disk drive (HDD) to be preserved or merged into an array of disks.
This example allows the creation of a mirror before or after the Windows Server 2003
R2 installation. The server has 2 disks: HDD0 (with the OS) and HDD1 (which is
blank).
To create a mirror image of the Windows Server 2003 R2 OS on HDD1:
1. Power on your server system for the first time.
2. Press CTRL-A to access the LSI RAID configuration utility.
3. Select the SAS card - SAS1068E. Press Enter.
4. Choose RAID Properties.
5. Create an IM (Integrated Mirror) for the required disk configuration.
6. Select the hard disks to be used. Use the right arrow to move the cursor to the
RAID column, and press the spacebar to include into RAID.
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RAID Configuration Supported
RAID Volume – 4 drive
minimum
IM – Integrated Mirror array. 2
disk minimum, plus up to 2 hot
spare disks.
IME – Integrated Mirror
Enhanced array. 3 to 8 disks
including up to 2 hot spares.
IS – Integrated Striping array. 2
to 8 disks.
, only IM (Integrated Mirror) allows data on the
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Drive Usage
50-100%
Data on Primary disk might be
merged.
All data will be deleted during
creation.
All data will be deleted during
creation.