User's Manual

Configuration 27
2 Select Auto Configuration and click Next . The Auto Configuration
window appears.
3 On the next screen, select a redundancy option from the drop-down menu
at the bottom of the Auto Configuration window:
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No Redundancy : The new configuration will have no data redundancy
(RAID 0). If a physical disk in the configuration fails, all data will be
lost.
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With Redundancy : The new configuration will have data redundancy,
either by parity data (RAID 5 or RAID 6) or mirrored data (RAID 1).
If a physical disk fails, its data is still protected.
NOTE: The PERC 5/i controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50,
but it does not support RAID 6 or 60. The PERC 6/i controller
supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
4
Select an Initialization option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of
the window:
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No Initialization : The new configuration is not initialized and the
existing data on the disks is not overwritten.
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Fast Initialization : Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager quickly writes
zeroes to the first and last 10 Mbyte regions of the new virtual disk and
then completes the initialization in the background. This allows you
to start writing data to the virtual disk immediately.
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Full Initialization : A complete initialization is done on the new
configuration. You cannot write data to the new virtual disk until the
initialization is complete. This can take a long time if the disks are
large.
5 Click Modify if you want to make changes to the Auto Configuration. For
example, you could change the size of a virtual disk. To modify the
configuration, perform the following steps:
a Select a virtual disk in the New Virtual Disks panel. The Reclaim
button becomes available.
b Click Reclaim . A warning states that this will delete the newly created
virtual disk.
c Click Yes to accept. The array displays in the top left panel under the
heading Arrays.