Users Guide

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• To assign a hot spare to the virtual disk, select the Assign a Hot Spare Disk
check box. A hot spare is an unused backup physical disk that can be used
to rebuild data from a redundant virtual disk.
• Select the physical disk to be used as the hot spare from the Hot Spare
Disk
drop-down menu.A hot spare can be used only with a redundant
RAID level. Hot spares also have requirements for physical disk size. The
hot spare cannot be smaller than the smallest physical disk included in the
virtual disk. If the RAID level and physical disk availability do not meet
these requirements, the
Assign a Hot Spare Disk check box is disabled.
Click Next after making your selection.
Advanced Wizard Only - Review Summary
The Summary screen displays the virtual disk attributes based on your selections.
CAUTION: Clicking the Finish button deletes all existing virtual disks except for
any foreign configurations that you specified should be kept. All data residing on
the deleted virtual disks will be lost.
Click Finish to create a virtual disk with the displayed attributes.
OR
To return to a previous screen to review or change selections, click Back. To
exit the Wizard without making changes, click Cancel.
Configuring RAID Through the Operating System Deployment Wizard
Important
• If your system does not have a RAID controller, the OS Deployment
wizard
bypasses the RAID configuration option and goes directly to
"Selecting an Operating System" on page 31.
• ESX 3.5 and Citrix operating systems do not support series 7 controllers.
• Using USC-LCE, you must navigate to the RAID configuration page from
the
Hardware Configuration Tab  Configuration Wizards  RAID
Configuration
.
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