Users Guide

86 Use Case Scenarios

Configuring RAID

Set up and configure RAID with the following hardware resources:

• Storage Controller — PERC

• Physical Disks (SEDs) — 4

• Size of each Physical Disk — 1 TB

RAID Setup

• Size of each Virtual Disk: 10 GB (10240 MB)

• Number of virtual disks — 10

• RAID Level — 5

• Dedicated Hot Spare — 1

• Lock the controller with a local key

Prerequisites

To successfully perform remote operations on the server, make sure that the

following prerequisites are met:

• Common Prerequisites

• PERC Controller and FW that supports Local Key Management

•SED Hard Drives

Workflow

Creating the Virtual Disk

Get the list of storage controllers attached the system and their properties.

Verify or note down the status of following controller parameters for later

use:

• Fully Qualified Device Descriptor (FQDD) of the controller

•Security status

• Encryption Mode

•Key ID