Acer Altos G330 MK2 User Manual - Page 121

Creating a RAID volume, Initial RAID Volume, Assigning a Hot Spare Disk, New Configuration

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103 5 Exit the configuration utility and press + + to reboot the server. Creating a RAID volume 1 1.Select Configuration from Management Menu. 2 Select New Configuration from the Configuration Menu. An array selection window displays the devices connected to the current controller. 3 Press the arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press spacebar to associate the selected drive with the current array. The indicator for selected drive change from READY to ONLINE. 4 After you adding the drives to current array, press Enter to finish creating current array. 5 Press Enter again to select array to configure. 6 Press spacebar to select the array and press F10 to configure the logical drive 7 Select Accept and press Enter to use the default setting for the RAID volume. 8 Press Enter to end the array configuration. 9 Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the Configuration Menu. 10 Press ESC to return to the Management Menu. Initial RAID Volume 1 Select Initialize from Management Menu. All logical drives should be listed under Logical Drives. 2 Press Spacebar to select drives for initialization. The selected drive will be shown in yellow. 3 After selecting the drives, press F10 and select YES to start the initialization process. 4 When initialization is complete, press ESC to continue. 5 Press ESC to return to the Management Menu. Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 1 Select Objects from Management Menu. 2 Select Physical Drive from Objects. All of the HDDs will be listed.

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5
Exit the configuration utility and press
<Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Del>
to
reboot the server.
Creating a RAID volume
1
1.Select
Configuration
from
Management Menu
.
2
Select
New Configuration
from the
Configuration Menu
. An
array selection window displays the devices connected to the
current controller.
3
Press the arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press
spacebar to associate the selected drive with the current array. The
indicator for selected drive change from
READY
to
ONLINE
.
4
After you adding the drives to current array, press
Enter
to finish
creating current array.
5
Press
Enter
again to select array to configure.
6
Press spacebar to select the array and press
F10
to configure the
logical drive
7
Select
Accept
and press
Enter
to use the default setting for the
RAID volume.
8
Press
Enter
to end the array configuration.
9
Select
YES
to Save Configuration and press any key to return to
the
Configuration Menu
.
10
Press
ESC
to return to the
Management Menu.
Initial RAID Volume
1
Select
Initialize
from
Management Menu
. All logical drives
should be listed under Logical Drives.
2
Press Spacebar to select drives for initialization. The selected drive
will be shown in yellow.
3
After selecting the drives, press
F10
and select
YES
to start the
initialization process.
4
When initialization is complete, press
ESC
to continue.
5
Press
ESC
to return to the
Management Menu
.
Assigning a Hot Spare Disk
1
Select
Objects
from
Management Menu
.
2
Select
Physical Drive
from
Objects
. All of the HDDs will be listed.