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FordetailedinformationaboutRAID,referto“IntroductiontoRAID”intheMegaRAIDSASSoftwareUser

Guide.ThisguideisavailableontheLenovoSupportWebsiteat:

http://www.lenovo.com/support

ConﬁguringRAIDusingtheLenovoThinkServerDeploymentManager

program

DeploymentManagersimpliﬁestheprocessofconﬁguringsupportedRAID.Thehelpsystemfortheprogram

canbeaccesseddirectlyfromtheprograminterface.

DeploymentManagerhasthefollowingfeaturesforRAIDconﬁguration:

•ForusewithallsupportedRAIDcontrollers

•AutomaticallydetectshardwareandlistsallsupportedRAIDconﬁgurations

•Conﬁguresoneormorediskarrayspercontrollerdependingonthenumberofdrivesattachedtothe

controllerandtheRAIDlevelselected

•Supportshot-sparedrives

•CreatesaRAIDresponseﬁlethatcanbeusedtoconﬁgureRAIDcontrollersonsimilarlyconﬁgured

Lenovoservers

See“LenovoThinkServerDeploymentManager”onpage15andviewthehelpsystemfromthemain

interfaceoftheprogram.

ConﬁguringtheadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAID

YourservercomeswithanAnyRAIDadaptertoprovideadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAIDfunctions.

Note:Dependingontheoperatingsystem,thetotaldrivecapacityoftheprimaryRAIDmightbelimitedto

2TB.

YoucanusethefollowingprogramsortoolstoconﬁguretheadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAID.

•MegaRAIDHumanInterfaceInfrastructure(HII)conﬁgurationutility

ThisutilityenablesyoutoconﬁgureRAIDindependentlyoftheoperatingsystem.TodisplaytheHII

conﬁgurationutilityinterface,starttheserverandpresstheF1keyassoonasyouseethelogoscreento

entertheSetupUtilityprogram.Then,selectBootManager➙AdaptersandUEFIDrivers.

•MegaRAIDStorageManagerprogram

Thisprogramprovidesgraphicaluserinterface(GUI)foryoutocreateandmanagestorageconﬁgurations

inanoperatingsystemenvironment.

•StorageCommandLineTool(StorCLI)

Thisisacommand-linemanagementtoolthatisusedtoconﬁgureRAIDinanoperatingsystem

environment.

TodownloadtheMegaRAIDStorageManagerprogramandStorCLI,gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/drivers

andfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpage.

FormoreinformationabouthowtoconﬁgureandmanagetheadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAID,refer

totheMegaRAIDSASSoftwareUserGuide.ThisguideisavailableontheLenovoSupportWebsiteat:

http://www.lenovo.com/support

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