Choosing between Express and Custom configuration
In the Configuration wizard, you can choose from two paths to configure your
integrated RAID controller subsystem:
- Click Express configuration for a quick and easy path for you to
automatically configure your integrated RAID controller.
Express configuration does the following:
- Creates an array by grouping together up to the first six physical
drives that appear in the ServeRAID Manager tree.
- Creates a RAID level-1E logical 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 integrated RAID controller. Choose this path to do any of the
following:
- Configure your controller manually.
- Select the physical drives that you want to configure.
- Configure two physical drives into a logical drive and assign it RAID
level-1.
- Configure up to six physical drives into a logical drive and assign
it RAID level-1E.
- Create a hot-spare drive.
- Preserve data on a mirror primary drive (for a RAID level-1 array).
Using this path, you can:
To initialize the new logical drives, click Automatically initialize
new logical drives. Initializing a logical drive erases the first 1024
sectors on the drive and prevents access to any data previously stored on the
drive. You can initialize the drive later if you do
not choose automatic initialization.
When you are ready to continue, click Next.
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