Computer Drive Installation Guide

60 Sun Fire X4150 Installation Guide • January 2008
Mirroring the Preinstalled Windows
Server 2003 R2 OS with LSI RAID
The Windows Server 2003 R2 OS supports hardware RAID and cannot be installed
on an existing array if one has been created. Refer to the Sun Fire X4150 Server OS
Installation Guide or an HBA card product guide.
If you choose the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS and want to make the OS
part of a RAID set, and if you are using LSI RAID only, perform the following
procedure to update the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 OS to a mirrored
RAID set. As stated in
TABLE 5-2, only IM (Integrated Mirror) allows data on the
primary hard disk drive (HDD) to be preserved or merged into an array of disks.
This example allows the creation of a mirror before or after the Windows Server 2003
R2 installation. The server has 2 disks: HDD0 (with the OS) and HDD1 (which is
blank).
To create a mirror image of the Windows Server 2003 R2 OS on HDD1:
1. Power on your server system for the first time.
2. Press CTRL-A to access the LSI RAID configuration utility.
3. Select the SAS card - SAS1068E. Press Enter.
4. Choose RAID Properties.
5. Create an IM (Integrated Mirror) for the required disk configuration.
6. Select the hard disks to be used. Use the right arrow to move the cursor to the
RAID column, and press the Space bar to include into RAID.
7. Because HDD0 contains data, select merge or delete:
■ Choose M to merge data and start a sync operation.
■ Choose D to erase the Windows Server 2003 R2 PreInstall.
8. Press C to create the RAID and start the sync operation.
9. Click Exit to save the configuration and close the menu.
10. Press Esc to exit the configuration utility and reboot.