Users Guide

To Locate Import Or Recover Foreign Conguration In Storage Management

For SAS controllers with rmware versions 6.1 and later:

1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.

2. Select a controller object.

3. Click Information/Conguration on the controller Properties page.

4. Select Foreign Conguration Operations from the Controller Tasks drop-down menu.

5. Click Execute.

6. In the Foreign Conguration Preview page, click Import/Recover.

For SAS controllers with rmware version 6.0 and earlier, select Import/Recover Foreign Conguration from the Controller tasks.

Clearing Foreign Conguration

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

After moving a physical disk from one controller to another, you may nd that the physical disk contains all or some portion of a

virtual disk (foreign conguration). You can identify whether a previously used physical disk contains a foreign conguration (virtual

disk) by checking the physical disk state. If the physical disk state is Foreign, then the physical disk contains all or some portion of a

virtual disk. Use the Clear Foreign Conguration task to clear or erase the virtual disk information from the newly attached physical

disks.

NOTE: The Clear Foreign Conguration task permanently destroys all data residing on the physical disks that are added

to the controller. If more than one foreign virtual disk is present, all the congurations are erased. You may prefer to

import the virtual disk rather than destroy the data.

To clear a foreign conguration:

Click Clear Foreign Conguration to clear or erase all virtual disks residing on physical disks is added to the controller.

To exit without clearing the foreign conguration, click Cancel.