Users Guide

NOTE: When deleting virtual disks, all assigned global hot spares may be automatically unassigned when the last virtual disk
associated with the controller is deleted. When the last virtual disk of a disk group is deleted, all assigned dedicated hot
spares automatically become global hot spares.
NOTE: For PERC H310, H700, H710, H710P, H800, H810, H330, H730, H730P, H730P MX, H740P, H745P MX, H830, H840
and PERC FD33xD/FD33xS controllers, if any of the drives you selected are in the Spun Down state, the following message
is displayed: The current physical drive is in the spun down state. Executing this task on this drive takes additional time,
because the drive needs to spun up.
You should be familiar with the size requirements and other considerations associated with hot spares.
Storage Health
The Storage Dashboard displays the combined status for each controller and lower-level storage components. For example,
if the health of the storage system has been compromised due to a degraded enclosure, both the enclosure Health and the
controller severity on the Storage Dashboard display a yellow exclamation mark to indicate a Warning severity. If a controller
on the Storage Dashboard displays a Warning or Critical status, perform the following actions to investigate the cause:
● Click Check Alert Log to display the Alerts Log. Review the Alert Log for alerts relating to the status of the controller and
its lower-level components. The Check Alert Log link is only displayed when the controller displays a Warning or Critical
status.
● Select the controller and investigate the status of the lower-level components. For more information, see the Storage
Component Severity section.
● Click the virtual disk that is in degraded state to display the Physical Disk Properties page.
NOTE:
The virtual disk link is displayed only if the physical disks that are part of the virtual disk, are in a Warning or Critical
state.
For more information on how the status of lower-level components is rolled up into the status displayed for the controller, see
the Determining The Health Status For Storage Components section.
How do I configure RAID using operating system
deployment wizard
You can configure RAID using an operating System deployment wizard on the Dell Lifecycle controller. To configure RAID:
● Launch the Lifecycle Controller.
● In the left pane, click OS Deployment.
● On the OS Deployment page, click Deploy OS.
● On the Deploy OS page, click Configure RAID First, and then click Next.
● The storage controllers available for configuration are displayed in the RAID Configuration page.
NOTE: Make sure that the selected controller is not in a non-RAID mode.
●
Select a storage controller. The RAID configuration options are displayed.
● Follow the instruction on the screen, complete the RAID setting tasks, and then click Finish.
The RAID configuration is applied to the virtual disks.
To create virtual disks using RAID configuration at the preferred RAID level, watch the Dell Lifecycle Controller RAID
configuration video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFPmeHNENV4
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