Completing A Full Recovery Of The Dl4000 Appliance; Creating A Raid 1 Partition For The Operating System - Dell DL4000 User Manual

Completing a full recovery of the DL4000
Appliance

Creating a RAID 1 partition for the operating system

CAUTION: It is essential that you perform these operations only on the RAID 1 virtual disks that
contain the operating system. Do not perform these operations on the RAID 6 virtual disks that
contain data.
To create a RAID 1 partition:
1. Ensure that the disks in slots 0 and 1 are known working disks.
2. Boot the DL4000 Backup to Disk appliance.
3. When prompted during the boot process, press <Ctrl><R>.
The PERC BIOS Configuration Utility screen is displayed.
4. Highlight the controller at the top of the VD Management tab, and press <F2>, then select Create
New VD.
NOTE: If the RAID-1 OS VD is already present, then fast-init the RAID-1 OS VD.
5. On the Virtual Disk Management page, select RAID 1 for RAID Level.
6. Select both disks in the Physical Disks box.
NOTE: The size of the virtual disk should not exceed 278.87 GB.
7. Enter a VD Name, such as "OS", that identifies the virtual disk as the one that contains the operating
system.
8. Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Initialize and press <Enter>.
NOTE: The initialization performed at the stage is fast initialization.
9. Click OK to finalize the selection or Press <Ctrl><N> twice.
The Ctrl Mgt page displays.
10. Navigate to the Select boot device field and select the virtual disk that contains the operating system.
The capacity of this disk is approximately 278 GB.
11. Select Apply and press <Enter>.
12. Exit the PERC BIOS Configuration utility and press <Ctrl><Alt><Del> to reboot the system.
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