IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support    30 Aug 1999

Creating a Disk Array (ServeRAID)

•  Defining Logical Drives
•  Defining a Hot-Spare Drive
•  Deleting a Disk Array
•  Deleting a Logical Drive
•  Redefining Space in an Array
•  Drive Maintenance
•  Defining the State of a Drive

1.  Start the server using the ServeRAID configuration program. See 'Starting the ServeRAID Configuration Program', or

   Note:   To create an array using hard disks in an existing array,  refer to 'Redefining Space in an Array'.

2.  Select Create/Delete Array/Log Drive from the Main Menu.
3.  Select Create Disk Array from  the Create/Delete Array menu.

    The cursor will be active in the Bay/Array selection list.

    
   

     Carefully determine which drives to include in the array before beginning the selection process. If  you change your mind after selecting the drives for an array, you can delete the array (by selecting Delete Disk Array from the Create/Delete Array menu)  and then begin again.

4.  Select each drive you want in the array by  using the Up Arrow (  ) key or the Down Arrow  (  ) key to highlight the drive and then pressing Enter. As you select each drive, the  status will  change from RDY (Ready) to ONL (Online).
5.  When you have selected all the drives you  want to include in the array, press Esc. The cursor will become active in the menu.

   Note:

   •  When the stripe unit size is 8K or 16K, the maximum number of drives in an array is 16.
   •  When the stripe unit size is 32K or 64K, the maximum number of drives in an array is 8.

6.  If you have drives you did not use in this array and  you want to create  another array, you can do one of the following:
   •  Define the logical drive or drives for this array,  then create another  array and its logical drives.  See 'Defining Logical Drives'.
   •  Create another array now by repeating steps 2 through 5 in  this procedure, then define logical drives for both arrays.

     Note:   You must define at least one logical drive for each created  array before you can exit from the configuration program.

   •  Continue with 'Defining Logical Drives'

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