How to Create a RAID Volume

1. Launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application. See Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks.
2. At the Select a Task screen, select the Raid Configuration radio button.

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   Note - The Select a Task screen only appears if your server supports additional tasks other than OS installation. It does not appear if the only available task is OS installation. Additionally, the Select a Task screen only lists task options supported for your server.

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3. Click Next.

   The HBA selection screen appears.

   
   
4. Select an HBA from the drop-down list and click Next.

   The RAID Configuration screen appears.

   
   
5. At the RAID Configuration screen, select the disks to be included in the RAID volume from the Available Disks box.

   • To create a RAID 1 or a RAID IM volume, select two disks.

   • To create an integrated mirror enhanced (IME) volume, select from 3 to 10 disks.

   • To create a new volume, select the RAID level (RAID 0 or RAID 1) from the drop-down list, and then select from the available free disks. For RAID 0, select one or more disks. For RAID 1, select an even number of disks.

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   Note - The interface does not allow you to select more disks per volume than are supported by your disk controller. If your controller does not support IME volumes, you can only select two disks per volume.

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6. Click the Create Volume button.

   The volume is created and listed in the Created Volumes box.

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   Note - Disks included in the RAID volume are no longer listed in the Available Disks box.

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Next Steps

Once the RAID volume(s) are created, you can install an OS on the boot volume.

• Installing Windows

• Installing Linux

See Also

How to Delete a RAID Volume