1-4 Overview
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1.2.4 Manageability/Disk Console
The features you can use to manage the logical and physical disks in the system
include
• configuration information display (in BIOS Configuration Utility and Hyper
Configuration Utility)
• support for RAID levels 0, 1, and 10
• online mirror rebuilding (in BIOS Configuration Utility)
• online consistency checks (in BIOS Configuration Utility)
• array management software
• error logging and notification
• support for power management features
• support for hot device insertion and removal
• automatic resume of rebuilding on restart
• support for manual rebuild
• physical drive roaming
• independent stripe size configuration per logical drive
• ability to create up to eight logical drives per array
• auto-configuration support of newly added physical drive
• support for hotspares
• support for disk coercion
• array initialization support (fast and normal)
• offline data (RAID 1) verfication with auto-recovery mechanism
• ability to prioritize configurable tasks (for online rebuild, check consistency,
migration, and expansion)
• logical drive availability immediately after creation
• variable stripe size options from 8 Kbyte to 128 Kbyte