Installation guide

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Contents
A BOUT T HIS S OFTWARE O PERATION M ANUAL .................................... III
T ASK M AP ............................................................................................ III
1. P REPARE ........................................................................................... III
2. I NSTALL H ARDWARE ........................................................................ III
3. C ONFIGURATION .............................................................................. III
4. M AKE A R ECORD .............................................................................. III
S YMBOLS IN T EXT ................................................................................ III
C ONTENTS ............................................................................................. 1
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................. 8
1.1 RAID C ONCEPT .............................................................................. 8
1.1.1 Raid Set.................................................................................. 8
1.1.2 Volume Set ............................................................................. 8
1.1.3 Instant Availability/Background ............................................ 9
1.1.4 Online Array Roaming/Offline RAID set ............................... 9
1.1.5 Online Capacity Expansion ................................................... 9
1.1.6 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration..................... 10
1.1.7 Global/Dedicated Hot Spares .............................................. 10
1.1.8 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support.............................................. 11
1.1.9 Hot-Swap Disk Rebuild........................................................ 11
1.2 U NDERSTANDING RAID................................................................ 11
1.2.1 RAID 0 ................................................................................. 12
1.2.2 RAID 1 ................................................................................. 12
1.2.3 RAID 10(1E) ........................................................................ 13
1.2.4 RAID 3 ................................................................................. 14
1.2.5 RAID 5 ................................................................................. 14
1.2.6 RAID 6 ................................................................................. 15
1.2.7 RAID x0 ............................................................................... 16
1.2.8 JBOD ................................................................................... 17
1.2.9 Single Disk (Pass-Through Disk)......................................... 17
1.2.10 Summary of RAID Levels................................................... 17
CHAPTER 2. CONFIGURATION METHODS ................................. 19
2.1 O VERVIEW .................................................................................... 19
2.2 U SING LOCAL FRONT PANEL TOUCH - CONTROL KEYPAD ................ 20
2.3 M C BIOS RAID M ANAGER ( FOR PCI- E RAID ONLY ) ................... 21