Practice environments: IBM X3850 service, eight of HDD 300G hard disk
server before installing the system will be hard to do something raid, ensure data security, reliability and performance improvements, today engaged in an IBM server to use, and then record about the configuration process, describe in detail the practice raid, this time I configuration is raide5, other raide is much the same approach.
1, the server power, wait a few minutes after entering the tips of the array cards, follow the prompts into the array card, key tips for the raid entering Ctrl + H option card, click on "start" configuration, as shown below: 
2, configuration interface, click on the "configuration wizard" option, as shown below: 
3, select the "new configuration", Note: When you select now will clear all the data array cards (requires the original data backup is good), if you want to add a new disk original array group to select "add configuration", I re-created here raid, so I chose "new configuration", click "next", as shown below: 
4, click "yes" OK, as shown below: 
5, "manual configuration" option is manually configured, "automatic configuration" option is automatically configured, I choose here is the "manual configuration" to manually configure and click "next", as shown below: 
6, select the hard drive you want to configure, left "Drices" is the server to recognize the hard disk, the raid needs to add hard drives to create the right "Drices groups "Press add to array driver groups selected from left to right, as shown below: 
7, after selection, click" Accept DG ", as shown below: 
8, click on" Next ", as shown below: 
9, from the left "Array With Free Space", select just made "Drices group" click "Add to SPAN" added to the right of "Span" and then click on the "next", as shown below:
10, the "virtual disk definition" configuration interface, RAID Level is selected raid level, select a good argument (I am here to configure raid5, where you can also see the total size of the hard disk), the other to keep the default on the line, click on the "Update Size" and then you can see the "Select size" total size, and then click on "Accept" accept the configuration, click "next" as shown below: 
11, clearly suggesting the initialization data, click on the "yes", as shown below: 
12, see have created a "VD 0", click on "next", as shown below: 
13, back to the main screen can be seen in the main state array interface, each drive in the array is a line Online status, click on "Accept" to complete the configuration, as shown below: 
14, will be prompted to initialize the new VD, click "yes", as shown below: 
15, after the completion of the raid initialization, click "yes" to save configuration, as shown below: 
16, add this point to create a RAID 5 configuration has been completed. Back Home main screen you can view the status of VD Optimal, 8 state drives are Online, as shown below: 
17, click on the "VD Progress Info" look at the progress of the initialization, as shown below: 
After completing Exit to exit the Web BIOS restart the server, the OS installation operations.