User`s guide

58 RAID Configuration and Management

Foreign Configuration View

Select Foreign Configuration View to display a foreign configuration before you either import the

foreign configuration into the virtual disk or clear the foreign configuration.

The section "Importing or

Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen

" on page 62

contains the

procedures you can use to manage the foreign configurations.

Setting Up Virtual Disks

This section contains the procedures used to set up a disk group and create virtual disks. Each of the

following procedures are explained individually in this section in detail.

Create the virtual disks and select the virtual disk options.

Designate hot spares (optional).

See "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares" on page 64 for more information.

NOTE: A disk group is deleted when the last virtual disk in the disk group is deleted.

Initialize the virtual disks.

NOTE: When you use one physical disk group to create multiple virtual disks, the virtual disks must all have

the same RAID level.

Table 5-5. Controller Management Options

Option Description

Enable Controller BIOS Select this option to enable the controller BIOS. If the boot device is on the RAID

controller, the BIOS must be enabled. Disable the BIOS to use other boot devices.

In a multiple controller environment, you can enable BIOS on multiple controllers.

However, if you want to boot from a specific controller, then enable the BIOS on

that controller and disable it on the other controllers. The system can then boot

from the BIOS-enabled controller.

Enable Alarm Select this option to enable or disable the on-board alarm tone generator. The alarm

sounds to alert you of key critical and warning events involving the virtual disk or

physical disk problems. See Table 6-8 for details about the alarm.

Enable BIOS Stop On Error Select this option to stop the system BIOS during bootup if there are BIOS errors.

This option enables you to enter the configuration utility to resolve the problem.

NOTE: Certain errors continue for five seconds even when Stop On Error is enabled.

Select Bootable Virtual Disk Select this option to specify a virtual disk as the boot disk on the controller. This

option displays if you have built virtual disks.

Select Defaults Select this option to restore the default settings for the options in the Settings box.

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