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After entering the LSI Software RAID Conguration Utility program, you can see the Management Menu on
the screen. The Management Menu contains the following menu items:
• Congure
This menu contains items to help you create a RAID array, view the current RAID conguration, add a new
array, delete an existing array, or select a boot virtual drive.
• Initialize
This menu helps you initialize virtual drive(s).
Note: Initializing a virtual drive erases all data on the virtual drive. Back up any data you want to keep and
ensure the operating system is not installed on the virtual drive before the initialization.
• Objects
This menu helps you congure parameters for the RAID adapter or controller, the virtual drive(s), and the
physical drive(s).
• Rebuild
This menu helps you rebuild a physical drive in an array in the event of a physical drive failure. You can
choose to rebuild the data on the failing drive if the drive is still operational. If the drive is not operational,
it must be replaced and the data on the failing drive must be rebuilt on a new drive to restore the system
to fault tolerance. If hot-spare drives are available, the failing drive might be rebuilt automatically without
any user intervention.
• Check Consistency
This menu helps you do consistency check for the virtual drive(s). The consistency check veries the
correctness of the data on virtual drive(s) that use RAID 1, 5, and 10.
The following table shows the various menus and items in the LSI Software RAID Conguration Utility
program. On each menu, press the Enter key to show selectable options and select a desired option by
using up and down arrow keys or type desired values from the keyboard directly.
Menu item
Submenu item Comments
Easy Conguration Create physical arrays. An array will
automatically become a virtual drive.
New Conguration Clear the existing conguration and
start a new conguration.
View/Add Conguration
View the existing conguration or add a
new conguration.
Clear Conguration Clear the existing conguration.
Congure
Select Boot Drive Select a boot virtual drive.
Initialize
Varies by conguration.
Initialize virtual drives.
Adapter
Set adapter related parameters, such
as rebuild rate, consistency check rate,
auto-rebuild, and so on.
Virtual Drive
Set virtual drive parameters.
Objects
Physical Drive
Set physical drive parameters, such as
creating a hot-spare drive for the virtual
drive, making a failing drive as online,
changing a drive state, and viewing the
specications of a physical drive.
Rebuild
Varies by conguration.
Rebuild physical drive(s).
Check Consistency
Varies by conguration.
Check consistency of virtual drive(s).
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