Choosing between Express and Custom configuration in the wizard
Note: If you intend
to use your ServeRAID controllers in a Microsoft® Windows® failover
or clustering environment, review the ServeRAID publications
before configuring ServeRAID.
In the Configuration wizard, you can choose from two paths to configure your
ServeRAID subsystem:
- Click Express configuration for a quick and easy path for you to
automatically configure your ServeRAID controller. This path creates the most
efficient ServeRAID configuration based on the number and capacity of the
ready physical drives available in your system. If four or more ready drives
of the same capacity are available, this choice also will define a hot-spare
drive.
Express mode configuration does the following:
- Creates arrays by grouping together same-sized physical drives.
- Creates one logical drive per array.
- Assigns a RAID level based on the number of physical drives in an array:
- An array with a single physical drive is assigned RAID level-0.
- An array with two physical drives is assigned RAID level-1.
- An array with three or more physical drives is assigned RAID level-5.
- Designates a hot-spare drive for the controller. If one or more arrays
has four or more physical drives, the largest-sized drive from those arrays
will be designated the hot-spare drive.
Note: If you click
Express, you will have the opportunity to review and approve the configuration
before the ServeRAID Manager applies the configuration. If you need to modify
the configuration, you can do so from the configuration summary.
- Click Custom configuration for a path that lets you to manually
configure your ServeRAID controller. Choose this path to do any of the following:
- Configure your controller manually.
- Assign RAID level-1E, RAID level-5E, or RAID level-x0 to a logical drive.
- Create more than one logical drive per array.
Using this path, you can do the following:
After you choose your path, click Next.
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