Copying the configuration from drives

Use this action to copy the configuration from all physical hard disk drives into a ServeRAID controller. This action is useful when replacing a controller and you want to reestablish the original configuration on the new controller.

If you are replacing a controller in a cluster environment, you must first configure the cluster parameters by selecting Configure for clustering. The cluster parameters are the following:

After you have configured these parameters, you can use this action to copy the configuration from only the non-shared drives into the new controller.

  1. Click a controller from the Main Tree.
  2. Click Actions --> Copy configuration from drives.
  3. If clustering is enabled, click one of the following from the menu:
  4. Click Yes.