Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4150 Server - Manual (Page 59)

Chapter 4 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System 49
RAID Drive Overview
The Sun Fire X4150 Server has two optional RAID HBA (HBA) cards. You can access
RAID configuration through the HBA card BIOS. To access the LSI card BIOS, press
CTRL-C. To access the Sun StorageTek card BIOS, press CTRL-A:
The system will have the preinstalled OS on HD0. When the Solaris OS installation
has been completed, the option to upgrade your single-disk OS to a mirrored RAID
solution is available.
The configuration procedure is different for each supported controller card. For
example, a Sun StorageTek HBA card has many more options for RAID
configuration than an LSI HBA card. Configure the RAID depending on your needs
as shown in
TABLE 4-3 .
RAID Drive Options
TABLE 4-3 shows the RAID drive options:
TABLE 4-3 RAID Drive Options
TABLE 4-2 Sun Fire X4150 RAID HBA cards
RAID HBA cards Press for BIOS
Sun StorageTek CTRL-A
LSI 3081E CTRL-C
SAS Card Drives Supported RAID Configuration Supported Drive Usage
Sun StorageTek Seagate 73GB SAS Volume – 1 disk
Fujitsu 73GB SAS RAID 0 – stripe – 2 disk minimum No redundancy
Hitachi 146GB SAS RAID 1 – mirror – 2 disk minimum 50%
RAID 1E – 3 drive minimum 50%
RAID 10 – 4 drive minimum 50%
RAID 5 – 3 drive minimum 67–94%
RAID 5EE – 4 drive minimum 50–88%
RAID 50 – 6 drive minimum 67–94%
RAID 6 – 4 drive minimum 50–88%