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Management Menu, Configure, Initialize, Objects, Rebuild, Check Consistency

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After entering the LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility program, you can see the Management Menu on the screen. The Management Menu contains the following menu items: • Configure This menu contains items to help you create a RAID array, view the current RAID configuration, add a RAID array, delete an existing RAID array, and select a boot virtual drive. • Initialize This menu helps you initialize virtual drives. Note: Initializing a virtual drive erases all data on the virtual drive. Back up any data you want to keep and ensure that the operating system is not installed on the virtual drive before the initialization. • Objects This menu helps you configure parameters for the RAID controller, the virtual drives, and the physical drives. • Rebuild This menu helps you rebuild a physical drive in a RAID array in the event of a physical drive failure. You can choose to rebuild the data on the failing drive if the drive is still operational. If the drive is not operational, it must be replaced and the data on the failing drive must be rebuilt on a new drive to restore the system to fault tolerance. • Check Consistency This menu helps you do consistency check for the virtual drives. The consistency check verifies the correctness of the data on virtual drives that use RAID 1, 5, and 10. The following table shows the various menus and items in the LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility program. On each menu, press the Enter key to show selectable options and select a desired option by using up and down arrow keys or type desired values from the keyboard directly. Table 3. LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility program menu items Menu item Submenu item Configure Easy Configuration New Configuration View/Add Configuration Initialize Objects Clear Configuration Select Boot Drive Varies by configuration. Adapter Virtual Drive Physical Drive Rebuild Check Consistency Varies by configuration. Varies by configuration. Comments Create physical arrays. An array will automatically become a virtual drive. Clear the existing configuration and start a new configuration. View the existing configuration or add a configuration. Clear the existing configuration. Select a boot virtual drive. Initialize virtual drives. Set adapter-related parameters, such as rebuild rate, consistency check rate, and auto-rebuild. Set virtual drive parameters. Set physical drive parameters, such as creating a hot-spare drive for the virtual drive, making a failing drive as online, changing a drive state, and viewing the specifications of a physical drive. Rebuild physical drives. Check consistency of virtual drives. 66 ThinkServer RD340 User Guide and Hardware Maintenance Manual

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AfterenteringtheLSISoftwareRAIDConfigurationUtilityprogram,youcanseethe
Management Menu
on
the screen. The
Management Menu
contains the following menu items:
•
Configure
This menu contains items to help you create a RAID array, view the current RAID configuration, add a
RAID array, delete an existing RAID array, and select a boot virtual drive.
•
Initialize
This menu helps you initialize virtual drives.
Note:
Initializingavirtualdriveerasesalldataonthevirtualdrive.Backupanydatayouwanttokeepand
ensurethattheoperatingsystemisnotinstalledonthevirtualdrivebeforetheinitialization.
•
Objects
This menu helps you configure parameters for the RAID controller, the virtual drives, and the physical
drives.
•
Rebuild
This menu helps you rebuild a physical drive in a RAID array in the event of a physical drive failure.
You can choose to rebuild the data on the failing drive if the drive is still operational. If the drive is not
operational,itmustbereplacedandthedataonthefailingdrivemustberebuiltonanewdrivetorestore
the system to fault tolerance.
•
Check Consistency
This menu helps you do consistency check for the virtual drives. The consistency check verifies the
correctness of the data on virtual drives that use RAID 1, 5, and 10.
The following table shows the various menus and items in the LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
program. On each menu, press the Enter key to show selectable options and select a desired option by
usingupanddownarrowkeysortypedesiredvaluesfromthekeyboarddirectly.
Table3.LSISoftwareRAIDConfigurationUtilityprogrammenuitems
Menu item
Submenu item
Comments
Easy Configuration
Create physical arrays. An array will
automaticallybecomeavirtualdrive.
New Configuration
Clear the existing configuration and
start a new configuration.
View/Add Configuration
Viewtheexistingconfigurationoradda
configuration.
Clear Configuration
Cleartheexistingconfiguration.
Configure
Select Boot Drive
Select a boot virtual drive.
Initialize
Variesbyconfiguration.
Initialize virtual drives.
Adapter
Set adapter-related parameters, such
asrebuildrate,consistencycheckrate,
and auto-rebuild.
Virtual Drive
Setvirtualdriveparameters.
Objects
Physical Drive
Setphysicaldriveparameters,suchas
creatingahot-sparedriveforthevirtual
drive, making a failing drive as online,
changingadrivestate,andviewingthe
specificationsofaphysicaldrive.
Rebuild
Variesbyconfiguration.
Rebuild physical drives.
Check Consistency
Variesbyconfiguration.
Checkconsistencyofvirtualdrives.
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