Auto Configure RAID 0 Operation

About this task

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

You can use this feature to automatically configure all physical disks in Ready state into RAID 0 virtual disks. This feature is supported on PERC 9 and later family of hardware controllers with the latest firmware version.
NOTE: When you perform an Auto Configure RAID 0 operation on a single storage controller, the maximum number of physical disks that are supported is 192. Only physical disks in Ready state are configured into RAID 0 virtual disks.

Before you proceed, browse to the physical disks details page, and verify if the physical disks are in Ready state. To configure physical disks into RAID 0 virtual disks, perform the following steps:

Steps

  1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
  2. Select the Controller object.
  3. Click Information/Configuration on the controller Properties page.
  4. In the Controller Tasks drop-down menu, select Auto Configure RAID0, and then click Execute.
    The Auto Configure RAID0 window is displayed. Read the messages displayed on this window before you proceed.
  5. Click Confirm to configure the physical disks.
    The autoconfigure operation may take time to complete, depending on the configuration and available physical disks in Ready state. The Auto Configure RAID0 operation is successful only if the Alert Log is updated. You can check the Alert Log for more information.

Next steps

NOTE:  If there are no physical disks in Ready state, the Auto Configure RAID 0 operation fails and displays an error message. For more information about alerts and their corrective actions, see the Dell OpenManage Message Reference Guide at openmanage manuals.
NOTE: When the autoconfigure RAID 0 task is performed on PERC 9, only HDDs that are in ready state changes to RAID 0. There is no change for SSDs.