Configure RAID 5 on Dell T320 Server with 3 hard disks
1) Go to the raid configuration utility first (Ctrl + R). You can see the buttons you have to pressed when bios screen comes
You will get the bios configuration utility like below. Since I have installed 3 hard disks with 2T capacity ,you can see a window like below ()
2) As you can see above window currently there are no any physical disk configured.
So we have to create a new virtual hard disk
3) In this window you have below options to configure raid and other basic & advance settings
6) In advance settings do not change any values and leave them as it is.
7) Jump to ok button and press ok
8) Ok now we are done with the creating an array of VD
before start we have to initialized it.
9) There are 2 options you have to select
i) Normal initialization - This will take a lot of time (Depend on the size)
ii)Fast initialization - This will complete within seconds
So i have selected 2nd option to speed up the process
10) Once initialization done you will get a message like below
11) Ok now you are done with raid 5 configurations. now restart the server. You will see the configured raid in bios menu
1) Go to the raid configuration utility first (Ctrl + R). You can see the buttons you have to pressed when bios screen comes
You will get the bios configuration utility like below. Since I have installed 3 hard disks with 2T capacity ,you can see a window like below ()
2) As you can see above window currently there are no any physical disk configured.
So we have to create a new virtual hard disk
- RAID Level
- PD Per Scan
- Physical Disks Section
- Basic Settings
- VD Size
- VD Name
- Advanced Settings
- Stripe Element Size
- Read Policy
- Write Policy
- Force WB with no battery
- Initialize
- Configure Hot Spare
3) Select the raid 5 from the level selection window
4)Select the physical discs that you want to add to the raid array
(You can use Tab & Space bar to do the selection)
5)Set The basic Settings . Since i have installed 3 x 2T disks i got 3725GB as total size. And we can assign a name to the array as well.
6) In advance settings do not change any values and leave them as it is.
8) Ok now we are done with the creating an array of VD
before start we have to initialized it.
i) Normal initialization - This will take a lot of time (Depend on the size)
ii)Fast initialization - This will complete within seconds
So i have selected 2nd option to speed up the process
10) Once initialization done you will get a message like below
Now its time to ROCK !! :)
