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Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility, Release 5.0
7
Configuring RAID Levels
RAID Configuration
You can use the RAID Configuration functionality to configure the on-board or PCIe supported RAID
controller cards.
If your system has multiple RAID controllers, UCS-SCU displays a list of all available RAID cards, and
physical and logical disks on the RAID Configuration page.
The following RAID configuration options are available:
• Automatic setup with redundancy
• Automatic setup without redundancy
• Single RAID levels—RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6
• Nested RAID levels—RAID 10, RAID 50 and RAID 60
This section includes the following sections:
• RAID Configuration Page Components, page 7-1
• Configuring RAID Arrays, page 7-3
• Clearing RAID Arrays, page 7-6
RAID Configuration Page Components
This section describes the RAID Configuration page and contains the following topics:
• Physical Disks Table, page 7-1
• Logical Disks Table, page 7-2
Physical Disks Table
The Physical Disks table in the RAID Configuration page lists the following:
• ID—The identifying number of the physical disk.
• Slot—The slot in which the physical disk belongs.
• State—The status of the disk. For more information about the various disk states, go to Table 7-1.
• Size—The size of the physical disk.
• Device Speed—The disk access speed of the controller.