Chapter 5 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System 95
Configuring Server RAID Drives
After you configure the Solaris OS, you might need to configure the RAID drives.
RAID Drive Overview
The Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers have two optional host bus adapter
(HBA) cards. You can access RAID configuration through the HBA card BIOS. To
access the LSI HBA card BIOS, press CTRL-C during the system boot. To access the
Sun StorageTek HBA card BIOS, press CTRL-A during the system boot.
The server has the preinstalled OS on hard disk drive 0 (HDD0). When the Solaris
OS installation is complete, the option to upgrade your single-disk OS to a mirrored
RAID solution is available.
The configuration procedure is different for each supported HBA card. For example,
a Sun StorageTek HBA card has many more options for RAID configuration than
does an LSI HBA card. Configure the RAID depending on your needs as shown in
TABLE 5-3.
Note – Configuring RAID for the server is optional. By default the Solaris
preinstalled image is configured in a non-RAID configuration. If anything other than
a basic mirror RAID is required, it is recommended that you perform a fresh install
of the Solaris Operating System (or other OS) in the desired RAID configuration.
TABLE 5-2 Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers HBA Cards
HBA Cards Press for BIOS
Sun StorageTek CTRL-A
LSI 3081E CTRL-C
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