Users Guide
Getting started with your PERC card
The workows outlined below list the procedures to getting started with the PERC card, based on your system conguration:
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Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system
• Installing the PERC card on a system with the operating system pre-installed
• Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card pre-installed
• Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system pre-installed
• Conguring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system pre-installed
Topics:
• Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system
• Installing the PERC card on a system with the operating system pre-installed
• Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card pre-installed
• Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system pre-installed
• Conguring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system pre-installed
Installing the operating system and the PERC card on
a base system
1 Install the PERC 9 card in the system. For more information, see Deploying the PERC card.
2 Download the PERC 9 drivers from the Dell support site. For more information, see Dell.com/support/home.
3 Use any of the PERC management applications to create the virtual disks and RAID congurations you require using the procedures
listed below:
a Importing Or Clearing Secured Foreign Congurations And Secure Disk Migration
b Managing physical disks
1 Creating Global Hot Spares
2 Creating Security Key
3 Converting a RAID disk to a Non-RAID disk. For more information, see Controller management.
4 Converting a Non-RAID disk to a RAID disk. For more information, see Controller management.
c Creating virtual disks
d Managing virtual disks
1 Setting up virtual disks
2 Checking Data Consistency
3 Managing Preserved Cache
4 Initializing virtual disks
5 Performing Background Initialization
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