Use the following steps
to create virtual drives.
- While the system is
booting, press <Ctrl>
<H> to start the WebBIOS
utility.
- Press Start to enter the
utility. If the drives are already configured, the screen will show
the current RAID configuration with virtual drives for all the RAID
disk groups. Otherwise, the drives display as unconfigured.
- From the left pane,
select Configuration
Wizard.
IMPORTANT:
In the event that there
are already any unwanted virtual drives configured, select the Clear Configuration radio
button in the Wizard to delete the default virtual drives.
- Select the New Configuration radio
button to start creating virtual drives. If you did not delete any
drives in the previous step and want to configure them now, select
the Add Configuration radio
button.
- Press Next and then select Manual Configurationto
open the Drive Group Definitions screen.
- Click on the first disk
in the list (Slot 1). This disk is the single disk selected to be
the virtual drive for the operating system and it will be added
to Drive Group0. Select Drive Group0 and press the Accept DG button.
- To configure the next
drive group in this example, use the <Ctrl> key to select
the next four disks (Slots 2 through 5) and press the Add to Array button.
This creates Drive Group1.
- Use the same method
to select the remaining four disks and create Drive Group2.
You are now ready to
configure the spans. Spans are used to take Drive Groups and use
them to create a nested RAID array.