Users Guide

BIOS Conguration Utility menu options...................................................................................................................... 65
Virtual disk management...........................................................................................................................................66
Virtual disk actions.....................................................................................................................................................68
Physical disk management (PD Mgmt).................................................................................................................. 68
Physical disk actions..................................................................................................................................................69
Rebuild.........................................................................................................................................................................69
Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt).......................................................................................................................70
Controller management actions............................................................................................................................... 70
Foreign conguration view........................................................................................................................................ 71
Virtual Disk Management.................................................................................................................................................71
Creating virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................. 71
Selecting virtual disk parameters............................................................................................................................. 72
Initializing virtual disks................................................................................................................................................72
Checking data consistency....................................................................................................................................... 73
Running a data consistency check...........................................................................................................................73
Importing or clearing foreign congurations using the VD mgmt menu..............................................................73
Importing or clearing foreign congurations using the foreign conguration view screen............................... 74
Break mirror................................................................................................................................................................ 75
Managing preserved cache.......................................................................................................................................76
Managing dedicated hot spares............................................................................................................................... 76
Deleting virtual disks.................................................................................................................................................. 77
Deleting disk groups...................................................................................................................................................77
Clearing the conguration......................................................................................................................................... 77
Physical Disk Management............................................................................................................................................. 78
Physical disk erase..................................................................................................................................................... 78
Converting physical disk to Non-RAID or RAID capable....................................................................................... 78
Setting LED blinking...................................................................................................................................................78
Creating global hot spares........................................................................................................................................ 79
Removing global or dedicated hot spares............................................................................................................... 79
Replacing an online physical disk..............................................................................................................................79
Restrictions and limitations.......................................................................................................................................80
Stopping background initialization........................................................................................................................... 80
Performing a manual rebuild of an individual physical disk....................................................................................80
Controller Management................................................................................................................................................... 81
Enabling boot support................................................................................................................................................81
Enabling boot support for a BIOS-enabled controller............................................................................................ 81
Enabling BIOS stop on error...................................................................................................................................... 81
Disabling BIOS stop on error.....................................................................................................................................82
Enabling auto import..................................................................................................................................................82
Disabling auto import.................................................................................................................................................82
Restoring factory default settings........................................................................................................................... 82
7 UEFI/HII RAID conguration utility.............................................................................................................. 83
Entering the UEFI conguration utility.......................................................................................................................... 83
Exiting the UEFI conguration utility............................................................................................................................. 84
Navigating to Dell PERC 9 conguration utility............................................................................................................84
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