User`s guide

StorageWorks RAID Array 200 Subsystem Family
Configuring the RAID Subsystem
The following tasks are involved in configuring your subsystem.
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Initial installation of the subsystem requires setting the these options:
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Fault Management
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Battery Backup
You only need to set these options once. The settings become effective when
the system is rebooted.
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There are two ways to configure the RAID Subsystem. Depending upon your
specific hardware configuration and needs, select one of these:
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Automatic Configuration
You can only use this option if your RAID subsystem has between
three and eight drives and you want all of the drives configured as
either RAID 5 or JBOD.
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Interactive Configuration
You use this option to configure your RAID subsystem with the
utilities. During the procedure, you use the utilities to perform the
following steps:
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Configure one or more drive groups
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Configure one or more logical RAID drives
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Specify RAID levels
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Specify caching policy
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Initialize drives with RAID parity information
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Specify a hot spare drive if you choose to include one
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