What's going on guys, it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes!! we're continuing our configuration
on the power edge R620, I think on the first video we took care of the unboxing, second
video we took care of configuring the Dell remote access control port, on the third video
we took care of BIOS and firmware.
And today is all about configuring the RAID system together and let's get right into it.
Alright so today.
Together we are going to configure the RAID configuration on the R620, I'm going to take
advantage of the Dell remote access controller port that we configured together because it
just makes life much easier.
Alright so I'm inside this nice little environment the Lifecycle Controller.
We already did the remote access together.
We need to do that third option configured the RAID so click on it and you're going to
get this five steps.
First Step.
Make sure that your controller is inserted firmly into the motherboard one viewer out
there left an awesome comment on the unboxing said make sure that the controller the RAID
controller is firmly inserted inside the motherboard, because he had a good eye.
I have bad eyesight because that's why I wear glasses.
When he saw the unboxing he saw during the BIOS that the RAID controller wasn't present,
and I opened it up.
And long and behold the RAID controller was not firmly inserted inside the motherboard
so make sure that's inserted inside the motherboard, for it to show up.
Boom.
Pick it.
Click on Next.
Now step two, pick the RAID level, I was debating over RAID 5 or RAID 10.
The reason why I was debating a lot of you guys said come on is easy choice go to RAID
10.
I understand that, but when you do RAID 5 you get more little bit more storage.
With the hard drives that I have plus the amount of hard drives that I have with a RAID
5, it was going to give me around.
2.10 terabytes that's a lot of space you know what I'm saying.
and plus I have 64 gigs, two processors, it was just like, wow, a lot of space, a lot
of virtual machines i could go at it.
But I went with my gut feeling because I know a lot of you guys are going to leave by angry
comment, you should have done RAID 10 Bernardo should have done RAID 10.
So that's what I picked I picked RAID 10, and I click on next even though RAID 10 is
going to give me around one point 10 terabytes that is not bad.
And I can deal with it.
Step three, pick your physical drives.
I'm going to click on Select All, I'm going to select all eight of my drives.yeah eight
drives.
Yes, eight drives on the R620, click next here.
Lets go back on Step three, you're able to configure the protocol the media type, and
also the encryption capabilities as well as the span length on these hard drives, I left
everything as the default right now.
And then let's click on Next Step four, give your virtual disk, a name.
I gave it BTNHD storage right makes sense, you are able to configure your read policy
and write policy I left everything as the default.
You're also able to secure your disks also assign a hot spare if you have one available,
and also enabled T10 protection information, I left everything as unchecked and click on
Next Step five is the easiest one it is a summary of everything that we are going to
do size is going to give me around 115 terabytes which is not that bad.
I can deal with it.
And I am not going to install the operating system inside this storage I'm actually going
to install the operating system inside a flash drive, which, that is going to be on the next
video, so make sure you check that out, stay tune Right, right.
Click on Finish and get a nice little warning, click yes on that.
It is going to start processing wiping everything clean, combining all those hard drives together
to make one solid hard drive for us to use later on.
And once everything is done, you're going to get this nice little green checkmark stating
successfully completed the RAID operation.
Awesome.
Click OK, reboot your machine and then you're good to go.
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Peace out.