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•OnboardSATAsoftwareRAIDconfiguration
TheonboardSATAsoftwareRAIDcontrollerisintegratedontheIntelC232chiponthesystemboard.
IfyourserverhasSATAHDDsthatareconnectedtothesystemboard,youcanusetheIntelRapid
StorageTechnologyenterpriseprogramtoconfigureRAID.Bydefault,yourserversupportsonboardSATA
softwareRAIDlevels0,1,5,and10.TheonboardRAIDisasoftwareRAIDinsteadofahardwareRAID.
Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringonboardSATAsoftwareRAID”onpage40
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•AdvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAIDconfiguration(requiresaRAIDcard)
SomeservermodelscomewitharequiredRAIDcardtoprovideadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAID
functionstotheserver.YoualsocanpurchasetheRAIDcardfromLenovoandinstallitintoservermodels
thatsupporttheRAIDcardtogetadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAIDfunctions.See“RAIDcard”on
page17and“PCIecard”onpage55formoreinformation.
TheRAIDcardprovidestheWebBIOSConfigurationUtilityprogramtohelpyouconfigureRAID
independentlyoftheoperatingsystem.YoualsocaninstalltheMegaRAIDStorageManagerprogramand
theStorCLIConfigurationUtilityprogramtohelpyoumanagetheRAIDarrayandRAIDcontrollerinan
operatingsystemenvironment.ThesupportedRAIDlevelsareRAID0,1,and10forThinkServerRAID
520iPCIeAdapterbydefault.ToactivateRAID5level,installaRAID520iupgradekeyontheRAIDcard.
ThesupportedRAIDlevelsareRAID0,1,5,and10forThinkServerRAID720iPCIeAdapterbydefault.To
activateRAID6level,youneedtoinstallaThunderboltMemoryModuleontheRAIDcard.
Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAID”onpage42
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Notes:
•ForservermodelswithSASharddiskdrives,aRAIDcardmustbeinstalled.
•TheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramsimplifiestheprocessofconfiguringsupportedRAIDandinstalling
supportedoperatingsystemsanddevicedrivers.
BeforeconfiguringRAIDforyourserver,observethefollowingprecautions:
1.UseHDDsthathavethesamecapacitywithinasingleRAIDarray.
2.UseHDDsthatareofthesametype(SATAorSAS)withinasingleRAIDarray.
3.Dependingontheoperatingsystem,theprimaryRAIDmightbelimitedto2TBtotaldrivecapacity.
ConfiguringonboardSATAsoftwareRAID
•“EnablingtheonboardSATARAIDfunctionality”onpage40
•“CreatingRAIDvolumes”onpage41
•“DeletingRAIDvolumes”onpage41
•“Resettingdiskstonon-RAID”onpage41
•“Markingdisksasspare”onpage42
Note:WhentheHDDsareconnectedtothesystemboard,HDD0,HDD1,HDD2,andHDD3willbe
displayedasphysicaldevices1,2,3,and5respectivelyinthemainmenuoftheIntelRapidStorage
TechnologyenterpriseoptionROMconfigurationutility.
EnablingtheonboardSATARAIDfunctionality
Note:Usethearrowkeysonthekeyboardtomakeselections.
ToenableonboardSATARAIDfunctionality,dothefollowing:
1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage29.
2.SelectAdvanced➙StorageConfiguration.
3.SelectSATAModeSelectionandpressEnter.
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