46 Advanced Features
NOTICE: All data will be lost upon creation of the RAID volume. Dell
recommends backing up your data before performing these steps.
When creating an IS (striped) RAID volume:
• All drives must be either Dell compliant SAS or SATA hard drives.
• SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be used in the same RAID volume.
• Drives must have 512 byte blocks and must not have removable
media.
• There can be at minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 hard drives in a
RAID volume.
5
Press <C> and then select
Save changes
when the RAID volume has been
fully configured.
6
Exit this menu to save the changes. The Configuration Utility will pause
while the RAID volume is being created.
Creating a RAID Level 1 Configuration
Follow these steps to create a RAID 1 volume on a SAS 6/iR controller that
does not currently have a RAID volume configured.
1
Select a controller from the
Adapter List
in the Configuration Utility.
2
Select the
RAID Properties
option.
3
Select
Create IM Volume
when you are prompted to create either an IS
(striped) RAID volume or an IM (mirrored) RAID volume.
The next screen shows a list of hard drives that can be added to a RAID
volume.
4
Move the cursor to the
RAID Disk
column. To add a hard drive to the
RAID volume, change “No” to “Yes” by pressing the <+>, <->, or space
bar. As hard drives are added, the
Virtual Disk Size
field changes to reflect
the new size of the RAID volume.
NOTICE: All data will be lost upon creation of the RAID volume. Dell
recommends backing up your data before performing these steps.
When creating an IM (mirrored) RAID volume:
• All drives must be either Dell compliant SAS or SATA hard drives.
• SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be used in the same RAID volume.
