Using Rdr To Mirror Dynamic Data Disks - NEC Express5800/320Ma Software Installation And Configuration Manual

Mirroring Disks
10. Make I/O enclosure 11 the primary enclosure:
a. In ftSMC, expand ftServer I/O Enclosures and I/O Enclosure - 11.
b. Expand VTM Adapter - 3 or VTM Adapter - 4, and right-click VTM Config.
c. Click Set Primary.
11. Restart the system.
12. In Disk Management, in the Remove Mirror box, select and right-click the system
disk in I/O enclosure 10 and click Remove Mirror. When you receive a message
asking Are you sure you want to remove the mirror, click Yes.
13. Revert the system disk in I/O enclosure 10 to basic.
14. Boot the system again, making sure I/O enclosure 11 is still primary. See step 3.
15. In ftSMC, add the physical disk in I/O enclosure 10 to the RDR virtual disk.

Using RDR to Mirror Dynamic Data Disks

If your disks use volume mirroring, you can set them up to use both RDR disk mirroring
and volume mirroring to obtain striped mirrors (RAID1+0). To do so, perform the
following steps, which require you to convert each disk to basic, use RDR to mirror the
disk, then convert the disk back to a dynamic disk. By converting one disk at a time,
you can preserve the data on the disks and restore the volume mirroring.
1. If necessary, insert and latch the pair of disks that contain the mirrored data
volumes.
2. As a precaution, back up the data on the disks.
3. From one of the disks in the pair, remove the mirrors from the mirrored volumes.
See "Breaking the Mirror of the System Volume" on page
Revert this disk to basic.
4. In ftServer Management Console (ftSMC), add this physical disk to an RDR virtual
disk. See
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N O T E
For help with the steps you perform in Windows Disk
Management, see the Windows Disk Management help.
N O T E
This procedure does not require you to back up and
restore the information from backup media. Back up the
information solely as a precaution.
"Using RDR to Mirror Disks in Internal Storage" on page
7-4.
3-8.