Chapter 5 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System 97
Mirroring the Preinstalled Solaris OS
With LSI RAID
The Solaris OS supports hardware RAID and cannot be installed on an existing array
if one has been created.
If you choose the preinstalled Solaris OS and want to make the OS part of a RAID
set, and if you are using the LSI HBA card only, perform the following procedure to
update the preinstalled Solaris OS to a mirrored RAID set. As noted in
TABLE 5-3,
only IM (Integrated Mirror) allows data on the primary hard disk drive (HDD) to be
preserved or merged into an array of disks.
This procedure describes how to create a mirror image of the OS before or after the
Solaris installation. When the server has two or more hard disk drives, the Solaris
OS is preinstalled on HDD0. You can mirror the Solaris OS to any of the other hard
disk drives.
▼ Create a Mirror Image of the Preinstalled Solaris
OS
To create a mirror image of the Solaris OS on HDD1:
1. Power on your server for the first time.
2. Press CTRL-C to access the LSI RAID Configuration utility.
3. Select the HBA card, then press Enter.
4. Choose RAID Properties.
5. Create an IM (Integrated Mirror) for the required disk configuration.
6. Select the hard disks to be used. Use the right arrow key to move the cursor to
the RAID column, then press the space bar to include disks into the RAID.
7. Because HDD0 contains data, select merge or delete:
■ Choose M to merge data and start a sync operation.
■ Choose D to erase the preinstalled Solaris OS.
8. Press C to create the RAID and start the sync operation.
9. Click Exit to save the configuration and close the menu.
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