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............................................................. 6
1.1 RAID C ONCEPT .............................................................................. 6
1.1.1 Raid Set.................................................................................. 6
1.1.2 Volume Set ............................................................................. 6
1.1.3 Foreground Availability/Background Initialization............... 7
1.1.4 Online Array Roaming/Offline RAID set ............................... 7
1.1.5 Online Capacity Expansion ................................................... 7
1.1.6 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration....................... 8
1.1.7 Global/Dedicated Hot Spares ................................................ 8
1.1.8 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support................................................ 9
1.1.9 Hot-Swap Disk Rebuild.......................................................... 9
1.2 U NDERSTANDING RAID................................................................ 10
1.2.1 RAID 0 ................................................................................. 10
1.2.2 RAID 1 ................................................................................. 11
1.2.3 RAID 10(1E) ........................................................................ 11
1.2.4 RAID 3 ................................................................................. 12
1.2.5 RAID 5 ................................................................................. 13
1.2.6 RAID 6 ................................................................................. 13
1.2.7 RAID x0 ............................................................................... 14
1.2.8 JBOD ................................................................................... 15
1.2.9 Single Disk (Pass-Through Disk)......................................... 15
1.2.10 Summary of RAID Levels................................................... 15
CHAPTER 2. CONFIGURATION METHODS ................................. 17
2.1 O VERVIEW .................................................................................... 17
2.2 U SING LOCAL FRONT PANEL TOUCH - CONTROL KEYPAD ................ 18
2.3 M C BIOS RAID M ANAGER ........................................................... 19