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Controller management, Enabling boot support – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H700 User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID

3 Press to display a menu of available actions.

The

Rebuild option is highlighted at the top of the menu.

Press the right-arrow key to display the rebuild options and select

Start.

4 After you start the rebuild, press to display the previous menu.

NOTE:

You can also use the VD Mgmt screen to perform a manual rebuild. Use the

arrow key to highlight a physical disk, and press . In the menu that is displayed,

select the Rebuild option.

CAUTION:

If a physical disk is a member of a disk group that contains multiple

virtual disks and one of the virtual disks is deleted when a rebuild operation is in
progress, the rebuild operation stops. You can then resume the rebuild operation
manually using a storage management application. To avoid interruption, ensure
that none of the virtual disks are deleted until the rebuild is complete.

Controller Management

Enabling Boot Support

NOTE:

See your system documentation to ensure the proper boot order is selected

in the system BIOS.

In a multiple controller environment, you can enable BIOS on multiple

controllers. However, if you want to boot from a specific controller, enable the

BIOS on that controller and disable it on the other controllers. The system

can then boot from the BIOS-enabled controller. Perform the following steps

to enable the controller BIOS:

1 Press to access the Ctrl Mgmt menu screen.
2 Press to move the cursor to Enable Controller BIOS in the

Settings box.

3 Press the spacebar to select Enable Controller BIOS.

An

X is displayed beside Enable Controller BIOS.

4 Press to move the cursor to the Apply button, and then press

to apply the selection.
The controller BIOS is enabled. To disable the controller BIOS, use the

spacebar to de-select the

Enable Controller BIOS control, and then select

Apply and press .

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