The BIOS screen appears. The first screen of the utility appears after a short delay. The next screen allows you to choose the type of RAID. Select the type of volume you want to create, in this case an IME volume.
The next screen lists the disks you can choose to include in the volume and also disks you can choose as hot-spares. Use the arrow keys to highlight the [No] item in the RAID Disk column for the disks you want to include in the volume.
Use the arrow keys to highlight the [No] item in the Hot Spr column for the disks you want to use as hot-spares. When you are satisfied with your choices, type c to create the array.
Note - Disks in the server blade are always listed first, followed by the disks in the disk blade. Here we see a single disk in the server blade in bay 0 followed by eight disks in the disk blade 0 through 7. Use the arrow keys to highlight the [No] item in the RAID Disk column for the disks you want to include in the volume.
Use the arrow keys to highlight the [No] item in the Hot Spr column for the disks you want to use as hot spares. When you are satisfied with your choices, type c to create the array. When the next screen appears, select View Existing Array and press Enter. If a volume contains more than one disk, it is created as a RAID volume.
You can also create a volume that contains only one disk. This is the mechanism you use to present a single disk to the OS. You can also use the procedure in this chapter to create single-drive volumes. A volume, by definition, consists of a single drive. On servers equipped with an Adaptec SAS host bus adapter, all drives must be part of a volume before they can be used by the BIOS or the operating system. Adaptec controllers support single-drive volumes that can be used for drives that are not part of a RAID array.
This is especially important when you add drives to a system. An Adaptec array is synonymous with an LSI volume. The concept of a single-disk volume does not exist with LSI adapters. Note - You can select many drives, and initialize them all at once, even if they are going to be in different volumes or arrays.
When you have selected all the drives to be initialized, press Enter. If you are going to create a one-disk volume, select the drive to be included in the volume. If you are going to create a RAID array, select all the drives to be included in the array.
Repeat Step 9 through Step 13 for each subsequent array or volume.
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