What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes I finally hooked up the thinksystem
SE350 from Lenovo, which is a super small edge server, very powerful.
This guy has around 256 gigs of memory two power supplies got it hooked up, and I hooked
up the XCC port, with a Ethernet cable, VGA and at the back we have connected a mouse
and a keyboard, because today we are going to configure this guy with a RAID configuration
so I'm super excited.
We are going to power it on which the power button is actually located right here at the
top is actually blinking green, let's turn this guy on real quick.
And we can hear that power.
Beautiful.
I'm going to let this guy boot up.
Look at the screen real quick, we should sees, like the thinksystem.
There you go.
thinksystem kind of BIOS menu.
And we're going to head to the lab, and we are going to enter the xclarity controller
portal, so we can log in and start configuring our raid system on the thinksystem SE350,
so let's get to it.
thinksystem SE350 is up and running with no problem.
Awesome.
So let's get right into the RAID configuration which is super simple.
So you are going to find a machine that is part of the same network as your SE350 edge
server on the desktop you're going to open up your favorite browser, it's up to you.
I'm going to open up Google Chrome, super easy and on the address bar you are going
to type in the IP address of the BMC controller of that server on the unboxing and first impressions
of the video we configured the IP address of 115.
Hopefully you guys checked out that video because I gave you kind of a quick glimpse
of how to configure the IP address on that video okay so we are going to hit enter.
You're going to get your connection is not private, which is okay.
Click on advance, and we're going to click on the link that says proceed to this particular
IP address, click on it and it's going to take you here to the xclarity controller.
Now the username and password would be USERID or caps in the password will be password capitalized,
but the O is a zero.
Once you enter that information click on login, it takes you here.
Awesome, or green checkmarks healthy, the way it's supposed to be on the server right
on your left hand side we are going to click on server configuration.
And there's the option how simple is that, click on RAID setup.
Now within RAID setup it takes you directly to RAID configuration, but I want to click
on storage inventory.
And this gives you a nice little bird's eye view of, you know the type of hard drives
that I have now, Lenovo is nice enough to send me a SE350 edge server with only two
m dot two solid state drives with only 480 gigs which is not that bad.
That means I can do like a raid five or raid 10.
All right, so let's head back inside the RAID configuration.
And within the RAID configuration on your right hand side you're going to see a hyperlink,
that says, enable Edit Mode we're going to click on it, now we are inside Edit Mode,
and we are going to click on virtual disk one, I just want to see what's already configured
again Lenovo gave me this machine with a virtual disk already configured with a raid one.
So I'm going to close it.
I'm going to click on that trash icon, and I want to actually remove this selected virtual
disk.
So let's click on remove, it's going to start deleting the virtual disk, at the very top
of the web portal, it is going to state delete virtual disk, success.
Awesome.
From here on your right hand side you see an option that says controller actions, we're
going to click on it and you only have two options clear RAID configuration or manage
foreign configuration.
I'm going to click on clear RAID configuration, you're going to get this nice little warning
and I'm going to click Apply.
If everything works well at the very top of the web portal, you're going to get clear
RAID success, which is a good thing now it's time for us to create our virtual disk, I
know Lenovo gave me this machine with a virtual disks already created but I just wanted to
show you guys how to create one yourself.
So we are going to click on Create Virtual Disk, you get a nice little menu right here
let's start with get started.
We are going to click on the drop down menu we only have one option so I'm going to leave
it as the default.
And then the second option is pick your raid now because I only have two hard drives, or
two m.2 hard drives, we only have raid zero and raid one.
So I'm going to pick raid one.
And from here I am going to select my hard drives.
And I'm going to click on the button that says, add members and it's going to move it
to the right hand side.
How simple is that, and then we're going to click on Next.
Now the second step is to create your virtual disk, you do have the option to click on the
pencil and to make extra modifications, but I'm going to leave everything as the default
and then click on next here, you get a nice little summary on step three, and then you
click on the button that say start creating and it's going to start creating your new
virtual disk, and then voila, you're done.
Once you happy with your virtual disk and you finalize it.
The next thing that we need to do on the right hand side we're going to click on change to
read only mode, click on that.
And now you're done, and that's it guys hopefully you guys enjoy this video make sure to hit
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