Users Guide

NOTE: The secure virtual drive is created only if the controller security key is created and the selected disks are Self-

Encrypting Drives (SEDs).

Viewing summary

The Summary page displays the virtual disk attributes based on selections.

CAUTION: Clicking Finish deletes all existing virtual drives except any foreign congurations that you specied. All data residing

on the virtual drives is lost.

To return to a previous page to review or change selections, click Back. To close the wizard without making changes, click Cancel.

Click Finish to create a virtual drive with the displayed attributes.

Conguring RAID using software RAID

For the PERC S110 and S130 controllers, make sure to change the SATA settings in the system BIOS to RAID Mode. To change this setting

using the BIOS, the latest BIOS version must be installed. For more information about the BIOS versions for dierent systems, see the

Lifecycle Controller Release Notes at dell.com/support/home.

NOTE: For more information about RAID conguration, see the

Creating RAID using Lifecycle Controller

white paper at

delltechcenter.com/lc.

NOTE: If you have an older BIOS, you can congure RAID only through Option

ROM.

Use this feature to congure RAID, if a PERC S110 or S130 controller is enabled on the system. If you select the software RAID option, you

cannot create partial virtual disk through Lifecycle Controller interface and it displays the physical disk-drives as Non-RAID disks or RAID-

ready disks.

• Non-RAID disk — A single disk-drive without any RAID properties. Needs initialization to apply RAID levels.

• RAID-ready disk — The disk drive is initialized and a RAID level can be applied.

NOTE

: From Lifecycle Controller UI, you can deploy only Windows server operating system using software RAID

controller.

To congure software RAID:

1 Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.

2 In the left pane, click Hardware Conguration.

3 In the right pane, click Conguration Wizards.

4 Under Storage Conguration Wizards, click RAID Conguration to launch the wizard.

The View Current RAID Conguration and Select Controller page is displayed.

5 Select the controller and click Next.

If the non-RAID disk drives are attached to the selected controller, select the non-RAID physical disk-drives, and then click Next to

initialize them. Else, the Select RAID Level page is displayed.

NOTE

: During initialization, all the data on the non-RAID disk drives are deleted.

6 Select the RAID level and click Next.

The Select Physical Disks page is displayed.

7 Select the physical disk properties and click Next.

The Virtual Disk Attributes page is displayed.

8 Select the virtual disk parameters and click Next.

The Summary page is displayed.

9 To apply the RAID conguration, click Finish.

Congure