Users Guide
Foreign conguration view
When a foreign conguration is present, you can select Foreign Conguration View to display the conguration. The screen shows the
foreign conguration as it would be if you import it. You can preview the foreign conguration before you decide whether to import it or
clear it.
In some cases, a foreign conguration cannot be imported. If a physical disk in a virtual disk is rebuilding, the physical disk's state is set to
Rebuild. Virtual disks that cannot be imported do not display the virtual disk target id.
The section Importing or Clearing Foreign Congurations Using the Foreign Conguration View Screen contains the procedures you can
use to manage the foreign congurations.
NOTE: The BIOS Conguration Utility (<Ctrl> <R>) reports error codes for failed imports of foreign congurations.
Virtual Disk Management
Creating virtual disks
NOTE:
• Combining SAS and SATA disk drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, combining disk drives and SSDs within a virtual
disk is not supported.
• Combing 4 KB disk drives and 512n or 512e disk drives within a virtual disk is not supported.
• To create secured virtual disks, see Security Key And RAID Management.
Perform the following steps to create a virtual disk:
1 During host system bootup, press <Ctrl><R> after the BIOS screen is displayed.
The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed. If there is more than one controller, the main menu screen is displayed. Select a
controller, and press <Enter>. The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed for the selected controller.
2 Use the arrow keys to highlight the PERC 9 series of adapters, for example the PERC H730P Adapter or Disk Group #.
3 Press <F2>.
A list of available actions is displayed.
4 Select Create New VD and press <Enter>.
The Create New VD screen is displayed. The cursor is on the RAID Level option. When adding a virtual disk to a Disk Group, the Add
VD in Disk Group screen is displayed. Skip to step 11 to change the basic settings of the virtual disk.
5 Press <Enter> to display the possible RAID levels.
6 Press the down-arrow key to select a RAID level and press <Enter>.
7 When creating a spanned virtual disk (RAID 50 or 60), enter the number of physical disks per span in the PD per Span eld and press
<Enter>.
8 Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the list of physical disks.
9 Use the arrow key to highlight a physical disk and press the spacebar, <Alt> , or <Enter> to select the disk.
10 Select additional disks, if required.
11 Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the Basic Settings box.
12 Set the virtual disk size in the VD Size eld.
The virtual disk size is displayed in GB format.
13 Press <Tab> to access the VD Name eld, and type a virtual disk name.
14 Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Advanced settings
15 Press the spacebar to make the settings active so that you can change them.
BIOS
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