Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 5i - Manual (Page 55)

RAID Configuration and Management
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Use the configuration utilities to perform the following tasks:
• Access controllers, virtual disks, and physical disks individually.
• Select a host controller to work on.
• Create hot spare physical disks.
• Configure virtual disks.
• Initialize one or more virtual disks.
• Rebuild failed physical disks.
The following sections describe the menu options and provide detailed instructions used to perform the
configuration tasks. They apply to the BIOS Configuration Utility and Dell OpenManage Storage
Management. The following is a list of the procedures used to configure physical disks into virtual disks.
1 Designate hot spares (optional).
See "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares" on page 64 for more information.
2 Define virtual disks using the group of physical disks.
NOTE:
A disk group is deleted when the last virtual disk in the disk group is deleted.
3 Save the configuration information.
4 Initialize the virtual disks.
See "Setting Up Virtual Disks" on page 58 for the detailed configuration procedures.
BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options
This section describes the options for the BIOS Configuration Utility for each of the major menus:
• Virtual Disk Management (VD Mgmt) menu
• Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt) menu
• Controller Management (Ctrl Mgmt) menu
• Foreign Configuration View menu
Most menus consist of two frames:
• A left frame with the menu options
• A right frame with details of the items selected in the left frame
The following sections describe the menu and submenu options for each of the major menus.
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