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Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI v2.30.30.30 User's Guide

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Configuring RAID using software RAID

For the PERC S110 and S130 controllers, make sure to change the SATA settings in the system BIOS to RAID Mode. To change this setting using the BIOS, the latest BIOS version must be installed. For more information about the BIOS versions for different systems, see the Lifecycle Controller Release Notes at dell.com/support/home.
  • NOTE: For more information about RAID configuration, see the Creating RAID using Lifecycle Controller white paper at delltechcenter.com/lc.
  • NOTE: If you have an older BIOS, you can configure RAID only through Option ROM.
Use this feature to configure RAID, if a PERC S110 or S130 controller is enabled on the system. If you select the software RAID option, you cannot create partial virtual disk through Lifecycle Controller interface and it displays the physical disk-drives as Non-RAID disks or RAID-ready disks.
  • Non-RAID disk — A single disk-drive without any RAID properties. Needs initialization to apply RAID levels.
  • RAID-ready disk — The disk drive is initialized and a RAID level can be applied.
    • NOTE: From Lifecycle Controller UI, you can deploy only Windows server operating system using software RAID controller.

To configure software RAID:

  1. Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.
  2. In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration .
  3. In the right pane, click Configuration Wizards .
  4. Under Storage Configuration Wizards, click RAID Configuration to launch the wizard. The View Current RAID Configuration and Select Controller page is displayed.
  5. Select the controller and click Next. If the non-RAID disk drives are attached to the selected controller, select the non-RAID physical disk-drives, and then click Next to initialize them. Else, the Select RAID Level page is displayed.
    • NOTE: During initialization, all the data on the non-RAID disk drives are deleted.
  6. Select the RAID level and click Next. The Select Physical Disks page is displayed.
  7. Select the physical disk properties and click Next. The Virtual Disk Attributes page is displayed.
  8. Select the virtual disk parameters and click Next. The Summary page is displayed.
  9. To apply the RAID configuration, click Finish.

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