Users Guide
Creating A Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................................................. 49
Enabling The Controller Alarm..................................................................................................................................... 49
Disabling The Controller Alarm.....................................................................................................................................49
Turning Off The Controller Alarm................................................................................................................................49
Testing The Controller Alarm....................................................................................................................................... 50
Setting The Rebuild Rate............................................................................................................................................. 50
Resetting The Controller Configuration......................................................................................................................50
Exporting The Controller Log File.................................................................................................................................51
Foreign Configuration Operations................................................................................................................................51
Importing Foreign Configurations................................................................................................................................53
Importing Or Recovering Foreign Configurations......................................................................................................54
Clearing Foreign Configuration.................................................................................................................................... 54
Physical Disks In Foreign Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................ 55
Setting Background Initialization Rate........................................................................................................................ 57
Setting The Check Consistency Rate......................................................................................................................... 57
Setting The Reconstruct Rate.....................................................................................................................................57
Setting The Patrol Read Mode.................................................................................................................................... 58
Starting And Stopping Patrol Read.............................................................................................................................59
Changing The Controller Properties........................................................................................................................... 59
Managing The Physical Disk Power............................................................................................................................ 60
Managing The Preserved Cache................................................................................................................................. 62
Encryption Key...............................................................................................................................................................62
Converting To Non-RAID Disks................................................................................................................................... 64
Converting To RAID Capable Disks............................................................................................................................. 64
Changing The Controller Mode....................................................................................................................................64
Auto Configure RAID0 Operation................................................................................................................................65
System Configuration Lock Down Mode......................................................................................................................... 66
Global Tasks Supported When System Configuration Lock Down Mode Is On....................................................66
Controller Tasks Supported When System Configuration Lock Down Mode Is On............................................. 67
Controller Reports Supported When System Configuration Lock Down Mode Is On......................................... 68
Physical Disk Tasks Supported When System Configuration Lock Down Mode Is On........................................69
Virtual Disk Tasks Supported When System Configuration Lock Down Mode Is On...........................................69
Viewing Available Reports ................................................................................................................................................. 70
Available Reports........................................................................................................................................................... 70
Viewing Patrol Read Report......................................................................................................................................... 70
Viewing Check Consistency Report............................................................................................................................70
Setting The Redundant Path Configuration...............................................................................................................70
Viewing Slot Occupancy Report...................................................................................................................................71
Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report........................................................................................................72
Physical Disk Firmware Version Report Properties................................................................................................... 72
8 Support For PERC 9 and PERC 10 Hardware Controllers................................................................ 74
Support For RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation On PERC 9 and PERC 10 Hardware Controllers......................... 74
RAID Level 10 Virtual Disk Creation With Uneven Span........................................................................................... 74
Support For Advanced Format 4KB Sector Hard-Disk Drives...................................................................................... 75
Hot Spare Considerations — 4KBSector Hard-Disk Drives.................................................................................... 75
Reconfiguration Considerations — 4KB Sector Hard-Disk Drives......................................................................... 76
9 Support for BOSS-S1 RAID Controllers.........................................................................................77
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