Environmental conditions
Dell servers R710, there are four hard drives
Target: wherein three to four hard drives do raid5, remaining a hot spare hard disk do
First, start the server
Second, enter the configuration interface raid
The prompt Press Crtl + R
Into the raid configuration interface
Third, the interface description
There is a Virtual Disk, is the final raid, as well as the physical disk, disk allocation, and hot standby disks
Fourth, delete the current raid, that is, remove the current VD
Follow the prompts to press the F2 key
Then select delete VD
Select YES, Delete
After removal, showed no configuration
Fifth, create a VD
Follow the prompts to press the F2 key, choose to create a a VD
The Create page
Select the raid level, currently supports raid0 raid1 raid 5 raid6 and raid10
Select Create a raid5
By the spacebar to select the disk where the three as raid5, and then choose the OK button
Because raid5, there is a parity disk to do, so the entire capacity of only about 2T
Creating raid
Tips for the corresponding initialization
You can see there is a virtual disk 0, there are three physical disks, space allocation is zero, there is no hot spare
Sixth, to create hot spare disk to another disk
There are three management interface, each virtual disk management, the physical disk management, management and control, can be selected by Ctrl + N
By Ctrl + N, select the physical disk management interface
Option to ready the cursor disk, use F2, to create it as HS (hot space)
Select yes to create
carry out
Use Ctrl + N back VD control interface
Seven, created after the raid, the auto-complete initialization
After initialization is complete
All of the raid information, virtual disk number is 0, the right is all the information, raid level is raid5, status, size and other information
All information
After the setup is complete, restart prompt
raid configuration complete! ! !