MegaRaid Storage Manager Configuration Guide

1. Login
1. Click the login shortcut icon on the desk top. The following interface pops up.

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Select a host, and click it. The following interface pops up, where you can enter the user name and
password for login.

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 The user name and password are the same as that used to log in to Windows server 2003. If no password is
set, just leave the Password text box blank. The following interface pops up after you log in.

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2. Establishing/Deleting a RAID Group

Click the Physical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and then right-click the
RAID card controller node. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Create Virtual Drive
Drive. The interface shown in
Figure 5 pops up. In the interface, two options are available: Simple and Advanced
Advanced. Select Simple
Simple. In the
simple mode, you cannot select disk slots.
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After the simple mode is selected, the interface shown in Figure 6 pops up. Select RAID 5 from the RAID
level drop-down list box. You can tick the Assign a hot spare checkbox to add hot spare disks. Select the
number of virtual drives you want to create from the Virtual drives drop-down list box, and specify the
capacity from the Capacity drop-down list box. In Windows server 2003, you can create only virtual drives
with a capacity lower than 2T.

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Click Next
Next. The Summary interface pops up, where you can view summary information about the virtual
drives, as shown in Figure 7.

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The created virtual drives are not yet named. Therefore, you need to name the virtual drives. Click the
Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, as shown in Figure 8. Select a virtual
drive you have just created, and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Rename Virtual Drive
Drive. The
interface shown in Figure 9 pops up.
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Select Advanced
Advanced. The interface shown in Figure 10 pops up.

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Select RAID 5 from the RADI level drop-down list box, select disks from the Select unconfigure drives
list, and then click Add
Add. A RAID5 array requires at least three disks, as shown in Figure 11. After selecting
the disks, click Create Drive Group at the lower right corner of the window.
Then you can add hot spare disks. First select the drive group node in the Drive groups frame, as shown in
Figure 12. Select a disk from the Select unconfigure drives list, and then click Add hot spare
spare.
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Click Next
Next. The interface shown in Figure 13 pops up.

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In the interface shown in Figure 13, you can set the properties of the virtual drive group, such as the virtual
drive name, initialization mode, strip size, read policy, write policy, I/O policy, access polity, and disk
cache policy.
After setting the above properties, click Next
Next. The interface shown in Figure 14 pops up.

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Select Yes
Yes. The interface shown in Figure 15 pops up. In this interface, summary information about the
drive group is displayed.

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Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select a virtual drive group,
and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Delete Virtual Drive to delete the drive group.

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3. Consistency Check
1. Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select a virtual drive
group, and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Start Consistency Check
Check.

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2. Click the Physical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select the RAID card
controller, and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Schedule Consistency Check
Check.
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The Schedule Consistency Check dialog box pops up. Select Weekly or other options from the Run
consistency check drop-down list box. Here, Weekly indicates that the consistency check is performed at
an interval of a week.

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 Click Advanced
Advanced. The Advanced dialog box pops up, as shown in Figure 19. You can select the consistency
check mode of the virtual drive group. Two options are available: Sequential and Concurrent
Concurrent.
Click OK to return to the Schedule Consistency Check dialog box. Set the start date and time, as shown in
Figure 20. You can also tick the Run consistency check continuously checkbox. Then the option you
select from the Run consistency check drop-down list box becomes invalid. Run consistency check
continuously indicates that the next consistency check will be immediately started after this consistency
check is over.

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4. Modifying the Properties of a Virtual Drive Group

If you did not set the properties of a virtual drive group during the creation of the virtual drive group, you
can select the virtual drive group from the drive group list on the Logical tab page and then right-click it. A
shortcut menu pops up. Select Set Virtual Drive Properties
Properties. The interface shown in Figure 22 pops up.
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5. Patrol Reading
Click the Physical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and then right-click the
RAID card controller node. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Start Patrol Read
Read, as shown in Figure 23.

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Set the patrol reading properties: Click the Physical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager
window, and then right-click the RAID card controller node. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Set Patrol
Properties, as shown in Figure 24.
Read Properties
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A dialog box pops up, where you can set the properties of patrol reading, as shown in Figure 25.

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6. Fast Initialization
Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select a virtual drive group
from the drive group list, and then right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Start Initialization
Initialization.

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A dialog box pops up, as shown in the following figure. Tick the Fast Initialization check box.

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7. Firmware Upgrade
Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and right-click the RAID
card controller from the list. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Update controller Firmware
Firmware.
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A dialog box pops up, as shown in the following figure. Enter the mirror file path.

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8. Task Rate Settings
Select the RAID card controller, and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Set Adjustable Task
Rate, as shown in Figure 30.
Rate

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You can set the rebuild rate, patrol rate, background initialization rate, consistency check rate, and
reconstruction rate, as shown in Figure 31.
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9. Changing to the Unconfigure Good State

Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select a disk in Foreign
state, and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Change to Unconfigured Good to change the
state of the disk to Unconfigured GoodGood.

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10. Making a Drive Offline
Click the Logical tab on the left of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, select a disk in online state,
and right-click it. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Make Drive Offline
Offline.

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11. Scanning Foreign Disks

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12. Disk Initialization

Right-click My Computer on the desk top. A shortcut menu pops up. Select Management
Management, and then click
Management. If the disk initialization and conversion wizard dialog box does not pop up, right-click
Disk Management
Management. A shortcut menu pops up. Select disk rescanning from the shortcut menu.
Disk Management
Check whether there is any disk to be initialized at the lower right corner of the window. For example, disk
is to be initialized in the window shown in Figure 37. Then click Next
Next. The interface shown in Figure 38
pops up.
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In the interface shown in Figure 38, select the disk to be initialized.

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Click Next
Next. A dialog box pops up, as shown in Figure 39.
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The disk state changes to Online

Online, In order for the system to identify and use a disk whose capacity is higher
than 2 TB, you must convert the disk into the GPT format. Right-click the disk to be converted, and then
select to convert the disk into a disk of the GPT format.as shown in Figure 40.

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The system starts creating a volume for the disk. For details about the steps, see the figures below.

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