E. Serial Attached SCSI BIOS Configuration UtilityE.4 Performing RAID Configuration Tasks E.4.1 RAID Implementation and Support |
1. Introduction to the Sun Fire X4600/X4600 M2 Servers
2. Powering On and Configuring BIOS Settings
3. Maintaining the Sun Fire X4600/X4600 M2 Servers
E. Serial Attached SCSI BIOS Configuration Utility
E.1 Fusion-MPT SAS BIOS Overview
E.1.1 Boot Initialization With BIOS Boot Specification (BBS)
E.2 Starting the SAS BIOS Configuration Utility
E.3 Configuration Utility Screens
E.3.3 Global Properties Screen
E.3.4 Adapter Properties Screen
E.3.6 Device Properties Screen
E.3.8 Advanced Adapter Properties Screen
E.3.9 Advanced Device Properties Screen
E.3.11 Integrated RAID Configuration and Management Screens
E.3.11.1 Select New Array Type Screen
E.3.11.2 Create New Array Screen
E.4 Performing RAID Configuration Tasks
E.4.1 RAID Implementation and Support
E.4.1.1 Automatic Data Resynchronization and Hot Spares
E.4.1.4 RAID Combination Support
Viewing RAID Volume Properties
A RAID 0 volume, also referred to as Integrated Striping (IS), offers the ability to stripe data across multiple hard disks. This can increase storage capacity and performance by combining multiple disks into one logical volume.
Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 volume on an adapter that does not currently have a volume configured.
The next screen shows a list of disks that can be added to a volume.
As disks are added, the Array Size field changes to reflect the size of the new volume. There are several limitations when creating a RAID 0 volume:
Note - RAID 0 does not provide any data protection in the event of disk failure. It is primarily used to increase speed.
Note - Once the number of disks in a RAID volume is set, it cannot be changed.
The Configuration Utility will pause while the array is being created.