Users Guide

Target Boot Device Description

• Advanced RAID Configuration

Basic RAID Level: Select Basic RAID Level option, and then select RAID

level from the Basic RAID Level drop-down menu.

ASM supports external and internal RAID controllers via the Advanced

RAID Configuration feature.

Advanced RAID Configuration: If you select Advanced RAID

Configuration, You will get two buttons Add Internal Virtual Disks, Add

External Virtual Disk. There are four settings under Add Internal Virtual

Disks, Add External Virtual Disk:

• Virtual Disk: Lists the ID number of the virtual disk..

• RAID Level: Select RAID level from RAID Level Drop-down menu.

• # of Disks: Select number of disk according to the selected RAID

level. You may specify "Minimum" or "Exactly" to determine whether

ASM should create the virtual disk with the exact number of drives or

use as many drives as available.

NOTE: If the number of selected disk is not correct for the

chosen RAID level, template validation won't allow you to

procede further.

• Disk Type: Select disk type from the drop-down menu.You can chose

Any Available, Require HDD, or Require SDD. to specify the type of

drives to be selected for the virtual disk. Note that a virtual disk

cannot be created with a mix of SSD and HDD.

There is feature,Enable Global Hotspares. This option is available for

both Add Internal Virtual Disk and Add External Virtual Disk. By using

this feature you can specify number of hotspares you want to set for disk.

NOTE: ASM supports MD1400 and manages MD1400DAS through

second RAID Controller. ASM provides the ability to configure a

second RAID controller to support the MD 1400 external storage

array. In order to support this you must have a second PERC device

in your system. It is recommended to use the PERC H830 storage

controller with the MD 1400.

System Profile Select the system power and performance profile for the server.

User Accessible USB Ports Enables or disables the user accessible USB ports.

Number of Core Processors Specifies the number of enabled cores per processor.

Processor Virtualization

Technology

If this is enabled, the additional hardware capabilities provided by

virtualization technology are enabled.

Logical Processors Each processor core supports up to two logical processors. If enabled,

the BIOS reports all logical processors. If disabled, the BIOS reports only

one logical processor per core.

Memory Node Interleaving If the system is configured with matching memory, enables memory

node interleaving. If disabled the system supports non-uniform memory

architecture memory configurations.