Quick Reference Guide

10 General System Configuration

As disks are added, the

Virtual Disk Size

field will change to reflect the size of the new virtual

disk. There are several limitations when creating an IM virtual disk:

• All disks must be either SAS or SATA physical disks. A mixture of SAS and SATA drives is

not supported

• Disks must have 512-byte blocks and must not have removable media.

• There must be 2 physical disks in an IM virtual disk.

Press <C> and then select

Save changes

when the virtual disk has been fully configured.

Press <F3> to confirm that existing data will be lost with the creation of the virtual disk.

The Configuration Utility will pause while the virtual disk is being created.

NOTE: IM provides protection against the failure of a single physical disk. When a disk fails, the

physical disk can be replaced and the data re-mirrored to the physical disk, maintaining data

integrity.

Additional Integrated Mirroring Guidelines

• The hard-drive status indicator does not display any status information until after the

operating system driver initialization has occurred. To check for status information of a hard

drive prior to operating system load, use <Ctrl><C> during POST. During normal

operation, the status indicator is off.

NOTE: The hard-drive activity indicator functions normally before and after the operating system driver

initialization.

• Any replacement drives should be blank and not previously configured.

• You should replace hard drives in an integrated-mirror configuration with drives of the same

capacity.

• After removing a hard drive in a hot-pluggable environment, wait at least 30 seconds prior

to installing the new hard drive.

Connecting a USB Drive, Keyboard, and Mouse to the Server

Module Front Panel

If you need to connect a USB drive (DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, or diskette drive), USB keyboard, and

USB mouse to the server module front panel, connect a powered USB hub to one of the two front

panel USB connectors, and then connect the drive, keyboard, and mouse to the powered USB hub.

NOTE: The optional DVD-ROM drive requires two USB 2.0 ports.

Installing an Operating System

NOTICE: If you install an operating system on a server module and your system uses an Avocent Digital

Access KVM module, you must connect the monitor to the KVM module rather than the server module

front panel.