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• Access controllers, virtual drives, and physical arrays to display their properties
• Create hot-spare drives
• Rebuild failed drives
• Verify data redundancy in RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 virtual drives
3.4 Intel
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RAID Web Console 2 Configuration and
Monitoring Utility
The Intel
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RAID Web Console 2 is an operating system-based, object-oriented GUI
utility that configures and monitors RAID systems locally or over a network. The Intel
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RAID Web Console 2 runs on each of the supported Microsoft Windows* and Linux
operating systems.
With the Intel
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RAID Web Console 2, you can perform the same tasks as you can with the
Intel
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RAID BIOS Console 2 or with the Intel
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Embedded Server RAID BIOS
Configuration utility. In addition, the Intel
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RAID Web Console 2 provides on-the-fly
RAID migration, creating almost limitless adaptability and expansion of any virtual drive
while the system remains operational.
The Intel
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RAID Web Console 2 allows you to:
• Create and manage virtual drives
• Add a drive to a RAID virtual drive
The following situations assume RAID 0 has one drive and RAID 1 has two drives:
• convert from RAID 0 to RAID 1 by adding one additional drive.
• convert from RAID 0 to RAID 5 by adding two additional drives.
• convert from RAID 0 to RAID 6 by adding three additional drives.
• convert from RAID 1 to RAID 0.
• convert from RAID 1 to RAID 5 by adding one additional drive.
• convert from RAID 1 to RAID 6 by adding two additional drives.
• convert from RAID 5 to RAID 0.
• convert from RAID 5 to RAID 6 by adding one additional drive.
• convert from RAID 6 to RAID 0.
• convert from RAID 6 to RAID 5.
• convert a degraded RAID into RAID 0.
• remove physical drives from a virtual drive.
Note: While you can apply RAID-level migration at any time, Intel
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recommends that you do so
when there are no reboots. Many operating systems issues I/O operations serially (one at