User`s guide
StorageWorks RAID Array 200 Controller Installation and Standalone Configuration Utility
vi EX-SWRA2-IG. C01
6 Configuring Your Array (Cont.)
6.6 Configuring Interactively.......................................................................................6-27
6.6.1 Creating a Drive Group....................................................................................6-28
6.6.1.1 Defining a Drive Group...................................................................................6-30
6.6.1.2 Arranging a Drive Group.................................................................................6-35
6.6.2 Creating a Logical RAID Drive .......................................................................6-37
6.6.2.1 Creating a Logical RAID Drive .......................................................................6-37
6.6.2.2 Choosing a Caching Policy..............................................................................6-42
6.6.3 Defining Hot Spare Drives...............................................................................6-43
6.6.4 Saving the Logical RAID Drive Configuration ................................................6-45
6.6.5 Initializing a Logical RAID Drive....................................................................6-47
6.6.6 Saving the RAID Configuration to a Diskette ..................................................6-51
7 Maintaining the Array with the Standalone Configuration Utility
7.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................7-1
7.1.1 Turning-On and -Off Your System and Storage Enclosures ...............................7-2
7.1.2 Using the Utility................................................................................................7-3
7.1.2.1 Invoking the Utility ...........................................................................................7-3
7.1.2.2 Navigating Through the Utility..........................................................................7-6
7.1.2.3 Exiting the Utility..............................................................................................7-7
7.2 Viewing the RAID Subsystem Configuration...........................................................7-8
7.2.1 Viewing Disk Drive and Drive Group Information.............................................7-8
7.2.2 Viewing Logical RAID Drive Information.......................................................7-13
7.2.3 Viewing the Configuration through a Hard Copy Representation .....................7-15
7.3 Changing Configurations .......................................................................................7-18
7.3.1 Creating a Drive Group....................................................................................7-20
7.3.1.1 Defining a Drive Group...................................................................................7-22
7.3.1.2 Arranging a Drive Group.................................................................................7-25
7.3.2 Creating a Logical RAID Drive .......................................................................7-27
7.3.2.1 Creating a Logical RAID Drive .......................................................................7-27
7.3.2.2 Choosing a Caching Policy..............................................................................7-32
7.3.3 Defining Hot Spare Drive................................................................................7-33
7.3.4 Saving the Logical RAID Drive Configuration ................................................7-35
7.3.5 Initializing a Logical RAID Drive....................................................................7-36
7.3.6 Saving a Copy of the RAID Configuration on a Diskette .................................7-39
7.3.7 Restoring RAID Configuration onto a New Controller.....................................7-40
7.3.8 Deleting a Drive Group or Logical RAID Drive...............................................7-42
7.3.9 Clearing the RAID Subsystem Configuration...................................................7-43
7.4 Running Parity Check/Repair.................................................................................7-44