60 Sun Fire X4450 Server Installation Guide • July 2008
Mirroring the Preinstalled Windows Server 2003
R2 OS with LSI RAID
The Windows Server 2003 R2 OS supports hardware RAID and cannot be installed
on an existing array if one has been created. Refer to the Sun Fire X4450 Server
Operating System Installation Guide or an HBA card product guide.
If you choose the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS and want to make the OS
part of a RAID set, and if you are using LSI RAID only, perform the following
procedure to update the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS to a mirrored
RAID set. As stated in
TABLE 5-2, only IM (Integrated Mirror) allows data on the
primary hard disk drive (HDD) to be preserved or merged into an array of disks.
This example allows the creation of a mirror before or after the Windows Server 2003
R2 installation. The server has 2 disks: HDD0 (with the OS) and HDD1 (which is
blank).
To create a mirror image of the Windows Server 2003 R2 OS on HDD1:
1. Power on your server system for the first time.
2. Press CTRL-A to access the LSI RAID configuration utility.
3. Select the SAS card - SAS1068E. 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 to move the cursor to the
RAID column, and press the spacebar to include into RAID.
RAID Volume – 4 drive
minimum
50-100%
LSI
3081E
Seagate 73 GB SAS IM – Integrated Mirror array. 2
disk minimum, plus up to 2 hot
spare disks.
Data on Primary disk might be
merged.
Fujitsu 73 GB SAS IME – Integrated Mirror
Enhanced array. 3 to 8 disks
including up to 2 hot spares.
All data will be deleted during
creation.
Seagate 146 GB SAS IS – Integrated Striping array. 2
to 8 disks.
All data will be deleted during
creation.
TABLE 5-2 RAID Drive Options
SAS
Card Drives Supported RAID Configuration Supported Drive Usage
To Next Page
