Lenovo ThinkServer TD350 - Configuring RAID

•UsingtheBIOSrecoveryjumper
1.Removeallexternalmediafromthedrivesandturnoffallattacheddevicesandtheserver.Then,
disconnectallpowercordsfromelectricaloutletsanddisconnectallcablesthatareconnectedto
theserver.
2.Iftheserverisinstalledinarackcabinet,removetheserverfromtherackcabinetandplaceitonaflat,
clean,andstatic-protectivesurface.SeetheRackInstallationInstructionsthatcomeswiththeserver.
3.Removetheservercover.See“Removingtheservercover”onpage72.
4.Removethecoolingshroud.See“Removingthecoolingshroud”onpage75.
5.LocatetheBIOSrecoveryjumperonthesystemboard.See“Systemboardjumpers”onpage50.
Then,removeanypartsanddisconnectanycablesthatmightimpedeyouraccesstothejumper.
Note:Donotremovethememorymodulesormicroprocessors.
6.MovetheBIOSrecoveryjumperfromthedefaultoffpositiontotheonposition.
7.Connecttheservertoanacpowersource.Theserverturnsonandthenturnsoffautomatically.
8.MovetheBIOSrecoveryjumperbacktotheoffposition.
9.Waitforabout20minutesfortheTSMtorecovertheBIOS.Topreventpermanentdamage,DO
NOTTURNOFFTHESERVERduringtherecoveryprocess.WhentheBIOSrecoveryprocessis
completed,theserverturnsonautomatically.
10.EnsurethattheSetupUtilityprogramstartsnormally.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”on
page57
.Then,disconnecttheserverfromtheacpowersource.
11.Reinstallanypartsandreconnectanycables.Then,reinstalltheservercover.See“Completing
thepartsreplacement”onpage180
.
12.Connecttheservertoanacpowersourceandturnontheserver.CheckandconfiguretheBIOS
settingsforyourspecificneeds.See“UsingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage57
.
Note:IfyoucannotrecovertheBIOSafterusingtheinstructionsinthistopic,theBIOSread-onlymemory
(ROM)mightbedamaged.Youmustreplacethesystemboard.ContacttheLenovoCustomerSupport
Center.
ConfiguringRAID
ThistopicprovidesinformationaboutRAIDandtheutilityprogramsthatareavailableforyoutoconfigure
RAID.
Thistopiccontainsthefollowingitems:
•“AboutRAID”onpage65
•“ConfiguringRAIDusingtheLenovoThinkServerDeploymentManagerprogram”onpage67
•“ConfiguringtheadvancedSATAorSAShardwareRAID”onpage67
AboutRAID
RAID,anacronymforRedundantArrayofIndependentDisks,isatechnologythatprovidesincreased
storagefunctionsandreliabilitythroughredundancy.Thisisachievedbycombiningmultipleharddiskdrives
intoalogicalunit,wheredataisdistributedacrossthedrivesinoneofseveralwayscalledRAIDlevels.
WhenagroupofindependentphysicalharddiskdrivesaresetuptouseRAIDtechnology,theyareina
RAIDarray.Thisarraydistributesdataacrossmultipleharddiskdrives,butthearrayappearstothehost
serverasonesinglestorageunit.CreatingandusingRAIDarraysprovideshighperformance,suchasthe
expeditedI/Operformance,becauseseveraldrivescanbeaccessedsimultaneously.
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