Lenovo x3250 m6 - Deleting RAID Volumes; Marking Disks as Spare

8.Ifnecessary,repeatstep7toselectmultipleharddiskdrives.
9.UsethearrowkeystoselectastripesizeintheStripeSizefieldandpressEnter.
10.TypeavolumesizeintheCapacity(MB)fieldandpressEnter.
11.SelectCreateVolumeandpressEnter.
12.Whenprompted,pressYtoacceptthewarningmessageandcreatethevolume.
13.Ifdesired,returntostep4tocreateadditionalRAIDvolumes.
DeletingRAIDvolumes
ThissectiondescribeshowtousetheIntelRapidStorageTechnologyenterpriseUEFIHIItodeleteRAID
volumes.
TodeleteRAIDvolumes,dothefollowing:
1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage29.
2.SelectSystemsettings➙StorageandpressEnter.
3.SelectIntelRSTeSATAControllerandpressEnter.
4.UsethearrowkeystoselecttheRAIDvolumetobedeletedintheRAIDVolumefieldandpressEnter.
5.SelectDeleteandpressEnter.
6.Whenprompted,pressYtoconfirmthedeletionoftheselectedRAIDvolume.DeletingaRAIDvolume
willresettheharddiskdrivestonon-RAID.
7.AfterdeletingaRAIDvolume,youcan:
•Returntostep4todeleteadditionalRAIDvolumes.
•See“CreatingRAIDvolumes”onpage44forRAIDvolumecreation.
•ExittheSetupUtilityprogram.
Markingdisksasspare
Tomarkharddiskdrivesassparedrives,dothefollowing:
1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage29.
2.SelectSystemsettings➙StorageandpressEnter.
3.SelectIntelRSTeSATAControllerandpressEnter.
4.UsetheupanddownarrowkeystoselectaNon-RAIDphysicaldiskintheNon-RAIDPhysicalDisks
fieldandpressEnter.
5.SelectMarkasSpareandpressEnter.
6.Whenprompted,pressYtoconfirmtheoperation.
Note:Markingaharddiskdriveasasparedrivewillremovealldataonthedrive.
Notes:IfyourserverhasoneofthefollowingLinuxoperatingsystemsinstalled,continuewiththe
correspondingactions:
•FortheRedhatEnterpriseLinux6.7operatingsystem,addthefollowinglinetotheendofthe
/etc/mdadm.conffileandrestarttheoperatingsystem.
POLICYdomain=DOMAINpath=*metadata=imsmaction=spare-same-slot
•FortheSUSELinuxEnterpriseServer11.4operatingsystem,dothefollowing:
1.Addthefollowinglinetotheendofthe/etc/mdadm.conffile.
POLICYdomain=DOMAINpath=*metadata=imsmaction=spare-same-slot
2.Runthefollowingcommandsasarootuser.
#chkcong–smdadmdon
#/etc/init.d/mdadmdstart
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