Users Guide
UEFI/HII RAID conguration utility
The Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RAID conguration utility is a storage management application integrated into the System
BIOS <F2>. It is used to congure and manage RAID disk groups, virtual disks, and physical disks. This utility is independent of the
operating system.
When the system is in HII utility environment and using PERC H330 controller, the progress of operations such as the Background
initialization (BGI), Consistency Check (CC), and Rebuild pauses and does not resume. These operations are processed only in <CTRL>
<R> and the Post environment.
NOTE: Progress of operation on H330 perc card is not captured in TTY logs when the system is in HII environment whereas it is
captured in <CTRL> <R> environment in GUI and TTY logs.
The following sections provide information about using the UEFI RAID conguration utility. For more information, see the online help option
in the UEFI RAID conguration utility.
NOTE: Use the UEFI RAID conguration utility for initial setup and disaster recovery. Certain advanced features are also oered
in the utility.
Topics:
• Entering the UEFI conguration utility
• Exiting the UEFI conguration utility
• Navigating to Dell PERC 9 conguration utility
• Conguration management
• Controller management
• Virtual disk management
• Physical disk management
• Hardware components management
• Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt)
• Controller management actions
• Dirty cache data error message
• Discovery error message
• Drive Conguration Changes Error Message
Entering the UEFI conguration utility
Perform the following steps to boot to the UEFI conguration utility:
1 Turn on the system.
2 While the system startup, press <F2> to enter System Setup.
Displays the list of menu in the System Setup Main Menu screen.
3 Click Device Settings.
Device Settings list all the RAID controllers in the system.
To access the management menu for the controller, use the arrow keys or the mouse.
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