Dell PowerVault DP500 - Manual (Page 5)

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3 RAID and Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . 29
Determining Your RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 29
Software RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Initializing a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Upgrading a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk . . . . . 31
Reactivating Dynamic Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Merging Foreign Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Volume Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Checking Partition or Volume Properties . . . . . . 33
Formatting a Partition or Volume . . . . . . . . . . 33
Deleting a Partition or Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Working With Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . 34
Working With Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4 Upgrading Your Operating System . . . . . 37
Operating System Upgrade Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Upgrading Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5 Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . 41
Installing Using the Server Management Media . . . . 41
Installing Additional Components . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing Using the Operating System Media . . . . . 46
Preinstallation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a Device Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . 46