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111 Intel® RAID Software User Guide
7.13.13 Securing a Drive Group
If a drive group is created with FDE drives (security enabled drives) and at the time of
creation, the security is set to No; later, you can secure that drive group using encryption.
Perform the following steps to secure a drive group:
1. Navigate to the VD Mgmt screen
, navigate to the drive group that you want to
secure, and press the F2 key.
2. Navigate to Secu
re Drive Group, and press Enter.
A message box appears asking for your confirmation.
3. Press Ye
s to secure the drive group.
Note: After a virtual drive is secur
ed, you will not be able to remove the encryption without
deleting the virtual drive.
7.13.14 Setting LED Blinking
You can use the Locate option to make the LEDs blink on the physical drives used by a
virtual drive. You can choose to start or stop the LED blinking.
Perform the following steps to start or stop LED blinking:
1. Navigate to the Drive Management scre
en (in the PD Mgmt menu).
2. Select a physical drive, and press the F2 key.
3. Navigate to Locate, and pre
ss Enter.
The St
art and the Stop options appear.
4. Perform one of these actions:
—Select St
art, and press Enter to start LED blinking.
—Select St
op, and press Enter to stop LED blinking.
Note: Both the St
art and Stop options of Locate only work if the drive is installed in
a drive enclosure.
7.13.15 Performing a Break Mirror Operation
You can perform a Break Mirror operation on a drive group. The Break Mirror operation
enables a RAID 1 configured drive group to be broken into two volumes. You can use one
of the volumes in another system and replicate it without making a copy of the virtual
drive.
Perform the following steps to perform a break mirror operation:
1. Navigate to the VD Mgmt screen
, navigate to a drive group on which you want to
perform the break mirror operation, and press the F2 key.