Users Guide

Conguration management............................................................................................................................................ 84
Creating virtual disks................................................................................................................................................. 84
Creating prole based virtual disks.......................................................................................................................... 85
Converting physical disks to RAID capable disk.....................................................................................................85
Converting physical disks to non-RAID disk........................................................................................................... 85
Viewing disk group properties.................................................................................................................................. 86
Viewing disk group properties.................................................................................................................................. 86
Managing foreign congurations on a RAID controller..........................................................................................86
Deleting existing congurations on a RAID controller........................................................................................... 86
Controller management...................................................................................................................................................86
Restoring factory settings for the controller.......................................................................................................... 86
Saving controller events............................................................................................................................................ 87
Enabling security for the controller..........................................................................................................................87
Saving debug log........................................................................................................................................................87
Switching the controller to HBA mode....................................................................................................................87
Switching the controller to RAID mode...................................................................................................................88
Virtual disk management.................................................................................................................................................88
Viewing virtual disk properties..................................................................................................................................88
Viewing physical disks associated with a virtual disk.............................................................................................89
Physical disk management..............................................................................................................................................89
Viewing physical disk properties.............................................................................................................................. 89
Hardware components management............................................................................................................................ 90
Viewing battery properties....................................................................................................................................... 90
Viewing physical disks associated with an enclosure............................................................................................ 90
Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt)............................................................................................................................ 90
Controller management actions.....................................................................................................................................90
Dirty cache data error message......................................................................................................................................91
Discovery error message................................................................................................................................................. 91
Drive Conguration Changes Error Message................................................................................................................91
8 Security key and RAID management............................................................................................................ 93
Security key implementation.......................................................................................................................................... 93
Security key management in the BIOS conguration utility....................................................................................... 93
Local Key Management.............................................................................................................................................93
Creating a security key..............................................................................................................................................94
Changing the security key........................................................................................................................................ 94
Deleting a security key.............................................................................................................................................. 95
Creating secured virtual disks.................................................................................................................................. 95
Securing pre-existing virtual disks........................................................................................................................... 95
Importing or clearing secured foreign congurations and secure disk migration...............................................96
Secure erase...............................................................................................................................................................96
Cryptographic Erase.................................................................................................................................................. 97
9 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................................................... 98
Adapter at baseport not responding error message....................................................................................................98
BIOS disabled error message......................................................................................................................................... 98
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