Dell Server RAID H700,PERC H800 array card configuration Chinese complete manual diagram _ server Other

Operations on RAID can result in data loss, so be sure to back up important data properly before you operate.
Name Explanation:
Disk Group: A set of disks, which is equivalent to an array, such as configuring a RAID5, which is a disk group
VD: Virtual disk, Virtual disk can not use the full capacity of the array, which means that a disk group can be divided into multiple VD
PD (Physical Disk): physical disks
Hs:hot Spare Hot Standby
MGMT: Management
Post Press Ctrl+r into RAID card configuration interface
"One", creating logical Disks
1, according to the virtual Disk Manager at the bottom of the screen prompts, in the VD Mgmt menu (you can switch menus through ctrl+p/ctrl+n), press F2 to expand the Virtual Disk creation menu

2, in the virtual disk to create a window, press ENTER to select "Create New VD" creation of virtual disk

3. When you press ENTER at the RAID level option, you can have RAID levels that can be supported, depending on the number of hard disks that you configure, and the options that may appear in this location will be different.
Choose a different level, and the options will vary. Select the RAID level you want to configure (we take RAID5 here for example) and press ENTER to confirm.

4, confirm the raid level, press the TAB key, move the cursor to the physical disks list, move up and down to the hard drive location you want to select, press the SPACEBAR to select (remove) the hard drive in the list, and when the number of hard drives you select reaches this RAID level, Basic The default capacity information for this raid can be displayed in the VD size of the settings. There is a hard drive with x marked as selected.
By pressing the TAB key after you have selected the hard drive, you can move the cursor to the VD size bar, and VD size can be set manually, that is, you can not configure all the capacity on a virtual disk. If this virtual disk does not use all of the capacity of the RAID5 array we have configured, the remaining space can be configured as another virtual disk, but the next virtual disk must be configured to return to VD Mgmt Creation (refer to step 13th for detailed instructions). The VD name is set as needed, or it can be empty.
Note: The minimum number of hard drives required for each RAID level, raid0=1 raid1=2 raid5=3 raid6=4 raid10=4 raid50=6

5, modify the Advanced settings, select the VD size, you can press the DOWN ARROW key, or the TAB key, move the cursor to the advanced settings, press the space bar to open (disabled) advanced settings. If it is turned on (the red box has an X mark turned on), you can modify the stripe Element size, and the read Policy and write policy,initialize of the array can choose whether to initialize at the same time as the array configuration.
Advanced settings are turned off by default (not modifiable) and it is recommended that you do not modify the settings here if there are no special requirements.

6, the above configuration confirmation is complete, press the TAB key, move the cursor to OK, press ENTER, the following prompts, if it is a new array, recommend initialization, if the purpose of configuring the array is to restore the previous data, do not initialize. Press ENTER to confirm and continue.

7, after the configuration is complete, will return to the VD Mgmt main interface, move the cursor to virtual Disk 0 in the figure, press ENTER.

8, you can see just configured the success of the virtual disk information, see the completion of the ESC key can return to the main interface

9. In this interface, move the cursor to Virtual Disk 0 in the diagram, press F2 to expand the menu for the operation of the dummy disks.
Note: The left has the + flag, move the cursor here, press the RIGHT ARROW key, you can expand the submenu, press LEFT ARROW key, you can close the submenu

10, as shown in the red box below, you can initialize the virtual disk that was successfully configured (initialization), consistency check (consistency check), delete, view properties, and so on.

11, if we want to initialize this virtual disk, you can move the cursor to initialization place, enter after the start Init. The prompt window pops up, initialization clears all data, and if you are sure you want to initialize, press ENTER at OK to continue.
Note: Initialization clears all information from the hard drive, the array, and cannot be recovered

12, after the confirmation will pop up dialog box prompts initialization completed



13, if you just configure the virtual disk does not use the full capacity of the array, the remaining capacity can be divided here to use. Move the cursor to total free capacity, and press the right ARROW key to expand this menu

14, move the cursor to free Capacity place, press F2 key to select Add disk or directly press ENTER

16, again into the configuration of the virtual disk interface, at this time the left red box for just configured the virtual disk has been selected for the physical disk information, the right red box can choose this time to divide the capacity of space. Again, if you don't divide it all, you can return to step 13th again to create a virtual disk.
Note: Because the virtual disk was built based on the array you just created, the raid level is the same as the one you just created and cannot be changed.

17. Each time you create, you add a new virtual disk to the dummy disks. These virtual disks are all partitioned on the same disk group (the RAID5 we just configured).



"Two", Configuration hot-standby (hot spare)
There are two modes of configuring hot spare, one is global thermal standby, this means that the hot spare hard disk can be used as a hot standby for all the arrays on this channel, and the other is independent hot standby, which configures the hard drive to warm up all the virtual disks in a specified set of disks, that is, other arrays outside this disk group, even if the hard drive falls off, This hot standby is not going to automatically do rebuild.
Configure Global Hot Standby:
1, press CTRL + N switch to the PD mgmt interface, you can see the status of the 4th hard drive is ready.

2, move the cursor to the 3rd hard drive, press F2, in the pop-up menu, select Make Global HS, configure the global hot spare

3, confirmed, the status of the hard drive 3rd into Hotspare

4, remove hot spare, enter the PD Mgmt menu, move the cursor to the Heat reserve, press F2, select Remove Hot Spare, return to remove

To configure an independent hot standby:
1, in the configuration of the virtual Disk Management interface, the cursor to the need to configure independent hot standby on the disk group, press F2 Key, in the menu appears to select Manage Ded. Hs

2. Move the cursor to a hard disk that needs to be configured as hot spare, press the SPACEBAR and see the X logo, indicating that the hard drive is selected. Move the cursor to OK to enter, complete the configuration

3, you can see that disk group 0 already has a hot spare, and is dedicated. Disk Group 1 does not have a hot spare.

"Three" delete virtual disks:
1, move the cursor to the virtual disk to be deleted, press F2, select Delete VD press ENTER to continue



2, select Confirm Delete, choose Yes continue

3. Move the cursor to the virtual disk group you want to delete, press F2, select Delete disc Group press ENTER to continue



4, confirm Delete, select Yes