Intel SC5650BCDP

vi Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide
Event Log Panel ........................................................................................................ 103
Menu Bar/Manage Menu ........................................................................................... 104
Menu Bar/Go To Menu .............................................................................................. 104
File Menu/Log Menu ................................................................................................. 104
File Menu/Tool Menu ................................................................................................ 104
File Menu/Help Menu ................................................................................................ 104
Drive Configuration Tasks ................................................................................................. 104
Create Virtual Drive ................................................................................................... 105
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration ......................................................... 105
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration .................................................... 109
Creating a Spanned Disk Group ....................................................................................... 116
Creating Hot Spares .......................................................................................................... 117
Setting Adjustable Task Rates .......................................................................................... 119
Adding a Drive to a Virtual Disk ......................................................................................... 120
Removing a Drive or Changing the RAID Level
of a Virtual Disk ......................................................................................................... 123
Changing Virtual Disk Properties ...................................................................................... 124
Deleting a Virtual Disk ....................................................................................................... 125
Managing Configurations .................................................................................................. 126
Saving a Configuration to Disk .................................................................................. 126
Clearing a Configuration from a Controller ................................................................ 128
Adding a Configuration from a File ............................................................................ 129
Monitoring System Events and Devices ............................................................................ 130
Monitoring System Events ........................................................................................ 130
Monitoring Controllers ............................................................................................... 131
Monitoring Disk Drives and Other Physical Devices ................................................. 132
Monitoring Virtual Disks ............................................................................................ 135
Monitoring Enclosures ............................................................................................... 135
Monitoring Battery Backup Units ............................................................................... 136
Battery Learn Cycle ................................................................................................... 137
Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes ................................................................ 139
Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations .......................................................... 140
Initializing a Virtual Disk ............................................................................................ 140
Running a Consistency Check .................................................................................. 141
Scanning for New Drives ........................................................................................... 142
Rebuilding a Drive ..................................................................................................... 142
Removing a Drive ...................................................................................................... 143
Flashing the Firmware ............................................................................................... 144
Enabling RAID Premium Features ................................................................................... 144
Enabling Full Disk Encryption feature ....................................................................... 144
Enabling Snapshot feature ........................................................................................ 153
Enabling Super Sized Cache .................................................................................... 163
Appendix A: Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration ..............167