Instruction Manual

6 Contents
Pre-Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2003
Operating System Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation. . . . . . . . 72
Installing Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows
Server 2003 for a New RAID Controller. . . . . . . 72
Updating Existing Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installing Linux Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Operating System Using the DUD
. . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Using the Driver Update Diskette
. . . . . . . . . . 77
Installing the RPM Package
With DKMS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing Solaris Driver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Installing Solaris 10 on a PowerEdge System
Booting From a PERC H700 or H800 Card
. . . . . . 80
Adding or Updating the Driver
to an Existing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6 Configuring and Managing RAID . . . . . . 81
Dell OpenManage Storage Management . . . . . . . . 81
BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
. . . . . . . 82
Exiting the Configuration Utility
. . . . . . . . . . . 83
Menu Navigation Controls
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Setting Up Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Virtual Disk Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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