User's Manual

Configuration 39
To start the Reconstruction Wizard, select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of
the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window and then select
Operations->
Advanced Operations-> Reconstruction Wizard
from the menu. This section
has the following subsections explaining the Reconstruction Wizard options:
• Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a
PERC 6/i Controller
• Changing the RAID Level of a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or
on a PERC 6/i Controller
Adding a Disk Drive to a Configuration on a PERC 5/i Controller or on a
PERC 6/i Controller
NOTICE: Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you add a drive to it.
Follow these steps to add a disk drive to a configuration with the
Configuration Wizard:
1
Select a virtual disk icon in the left panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage
Manager window and then select
Operations-> Advanced Operations->
Reconstruction Wizard
from the menu to start the Reconstruction
Wizard.
2 Click Add Drive on the Reconstruction Wizard menu screen, and then
click
Next .
3 When the next screen appears, select an available disk drive in the top
panel and click the down-arrow
Add button to move it to the Selected
Drives list.
4 Click Next to continue. The next screen appears.
5 (Optional) Select a different RAID level for the configuration from the
drop-down menu in the lower right of the window.
6 Review the information in the window. If everything is acceptable, click
Finish .
A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the
progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do
this, select
Group Operations-> Show Progress .