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Name explanation:

Press the Crtl+R key to enter the Raid setup interface after power on

Disk Group: disk group, which is equivalent to an array. For example, if a RAID5 is configured, it is a disk group.

VD (Virtual Disk): virtual disk, virtual disk can not use the full capacity of the array, that is, a disk group can be divided into multiple VD

PD (Physical Disk): physical disk

HS:Hot Spare hot standby

Mgmt: management

[1] create a logical disk

1. Follow the prompts of the Virtual disk Manager at the bottom of the screen, in the VD Mgmt menu (you can switch menus through CTRL+P/CTRL+N), press F2 to expand the virtual disk creation menu.

2. In the virtual disk creation window, press enter to select "Create New VD" to create a new virtual disk.

3. Press enter in the RAID Level option, the RAID level that can be supported can appear, and the level that raid card can support is RAID0/1/5/10/50. Depending on the number of hard drives configured, the options that may appear in this location will vary.

Choose different levels, the options will be different. Select the RAID level to be configured (we take RAID5 as an example here), and press enter to confirm.

4, after confirming the RAID level, press the down arrow key, move the cursor to the Physical Disks list, move up and down to the location of the hard disk you need to select, press the space bar to select (remove) the hard disk in the list, when the number of hard drives selected meets the requirements of this RAID level, the VD Size of Basic Settings can display the default capacity information of this RAID. There is an X flag for the selected hard drive.

After selecting the hard drive, press the Tab key, you can move the cursor to the VD Size bar, and VD Size can set the size manually, that is, you don't have to configure all the capacity in a virtual disk. If this virtual disk does not use all the capacity of the RAID5 array we have configured, the remaining space can be configured as another virtual disk, but the next virtual disk must be created by returning VD Mgmt (see step 13 for details). VD Name can be set as needed or empty.

Note: the minimum number of hard drives required for each RAID level, RAID0=1,RAID1=2,RAID5=3,RAID10=4,RAID50=6

5, modify the advanced settings, after selecting VD Size, you can press the down arrow key, or Tab key, move the cursor to Advanced Settings, press the spacebar to open (disable) advanced settings. If enabled (the X mark in the red box is on), you can modify the Stripe Element Size size, and you can choose whether to initialize the array configuration at the Read Policy and Write Policy,Initialize of the array.

Advanced settings are off by default (cannot be modified). If there are no special requirements, it is recommended that you do not modify the settings here.

6. After the above configuration is confirmed, press the Tab key, move the cursor to OK, and press enter, the following prompt will appear. If it is a new array, it is recommended to initialize. If the purpose of configuring the array is to restore the previous data, do not initialize it. Press enter to confirm and continue.

7. After the configuration is completed, you will return to the VD Mgmt main interface, move the cursor to Virtual Disk 0 in the figure, and press enter.

8. You can see the information of the virtual disk that has just been successfully configured. Press the ESC key to return to the main interface after viewing.

9. In this interface, move the cursor to Virtual Disk 0 in the figure, and press F2 to expand the menu for the operation of this virtual disk.

Note: if there is a + sign on the left, move the cursor here and press the right arrow key to expand the submenu and press the left arrow key to close the submenu.

10. As shown in the red box in the figure below, you can initialize (Initialization), Consistency Check, delete, view attributes and other operations on the virtual disk (Virtual Disk 0) that has just been successfully configured.

11. If we want to initialize this virtual disk, we can move the cursor to Initialization, enter and select Start Init. A prompt window will pop up, and initialization will clear all data. If you confirm that you want to initialize, press enter at OK to continue.

Note: initialization clears all information in the hard disk and array and cannot be recovered.

12. After confirmation, you can see the progress of initialization. The red box on the left shows the percentage, and the red box on the right indicates the current operation. Wait for the initialization to be 100%, and the configuration of the virtual disk is complete.

If you just configured the virtual disk without using the full capacity of the array, the remaining capacity can be divided here. Move the cursor to Space allocation and press the right arrow key to expand the menu

Move the cursor to * Free Space*, press F2 to step 15, or press enter directly to step 16

15. Press enter at the pop-up Add New VD.

16. Enter the interface of configuring the virtual disk again. At this time, the red box on the left is the physical disk information that has been selected by the virtual disk just configured, and the red box on the right allows you to select the capacity space to be allocated this time. Similarly, if you don't partition it all, you can go back to step 13 again to create another virtual disk.

Note: since the establishment of the virtual disk is based on the array you just created, the RAID Level is the same as the one you just created and cannot be changed.

17. Each time you create it, a new virtual disk is added to the Virtual Disks. These virtual disks are all divided on the same disk group (that is, the RAID5 we just configured).

[2] configure hot backup (Hot spare)

There are two modes for configuring Hot Spare, one is global hot backup, which means that this hot backup can be used as a hot backup for all arrays on this channel, and the other is independent hot backup, which configures the hard disk to do hot backup for all virtual disks in a specified disk group, that is to say, even if the hard disk of other arrays outside this disk group goes offline, the hot backup will not do rebuild automatically.

Configure global hot backup:

1. First of all, there must be an existing disk group (array). For example, we have configured two arrays. Array 0 is a RAID5 configured by 0, 1 and 2 physical disks, and Array 1 is a RAID1 configured by 4 and 5 physical disks, as shown in the figure:

2. Press CTRL+N to switch to the PD Mgmt interface, and you can see that the status of hard disk No. 4 is Ready.

3. Move the cursor to the No. 4 hard disk, press F2, and select Make Global HS from the pop-up menu to configure the global hot spare.

4. After confirmation, the status of the No. 4 hard disk becomes Hotspare.

5. After the configuration is completed, you can see that the hot spares of disk group 0 and disk group 1 are the same.

6. Remove the hot spare, enter the PD Mgmt menu, move the cursor to the hot spare, press F2, select Remove Hot Spare, and press enter to remove it.

Configure independent hot backup:

1. Under the configured virtual disk management interface, move the cursor over the disk group that needs to be configured with independent hot spare, press F2 key, and select Manage Ded in the menu that appears. HS

2. Move the cursor over the hard disk that needs to be configured as a hot backup, press the space bar, and see the X sign, indicating that the hard disk has been selected. Move the cursor to OK and enter to complete the configuration.

3. You can see that disk group 0 already has a hot spare and is Dedicated. Disk group 1 does not have a hot spare.

4. Remove the hot spare, as in step 1, move the cursor over the disk group that needs to be removed, press F2, and select Manage Ded in the menu that appears. HS

5. Move the cursor over the hot spare hard disk that needs to be removed, press the space bar, and remove the X flag, indicating that the hard disk has been removed. Move the cursor to OK and enter to complete the hot standby removal.

[3] Delete the virtual disk:

1. Move the cursor to the virtual disk you want to delete, press F2, select Delete VD and press enter to continue.

2. In the pop-up confirmation window, press enter to confirm at OK to delete.

Note: all data on this virtual disk will be deleted at the same time.

3. Delete the disk group, move the cursor to the disk group you want to delete, press F2, select Delete Disk Group and press enter to continue.

4. In the pop-up confirmation window, press enter to confirm at OK, and then delete it.

Note: when deleted, all data of this disk group will be deleted.

(4) install ESXI

Put the Esxi6.0 CD or U disk, set it to CD or U disk to start, enter the boot, do not make sure at this time, and enter the installation interface automatically after a few seconds.

During the boot process, you can see the basic information of the machine's CPU and memory.

Click the enter key to confirm and confirm the installation

Press "F11" to accept the agreement

Select the installation location in this interface, click the "enter" key to confirm and install it to the local disk

Keyboard type, keep the default American keyboard, click enter to confirm

Enter the root password, which requires more than 7 digits. Click "enter" to confirm.

Click the F11 key to confirm the installation

Installation in progress

After a few minutes, the installation is complete. Prompt to remove the CD and click the "enter" key to restart.

After the installation is completed, go to the console, through which you can see the basic information of the server and the IP address.

II. VMware ESXI6.0 setting

1. Change the password

According to the prompt in the lower left corner, click "F2" to enter the configuration menu. Prompt for the password of root, click the "enter" key to confirm and enter the ESXI console

ConfigurePassword configure root password

ConfigureLockdown Mode configures lock mode. When lockout mode is enabled, no user other than vpxuser has authentication rights and cannot perform operations directly on ESXi. Locking mode forces all operations to be performed through vCenter Server.

ConfigureManagement Network configuration Network

RestartManagement Network restarts the network

TestManagement Network tests the network using the Ping command

NetworkRestore Options restore network configuration

ConfigureKeyboard configure keyboard layout

TroubleshootingOptions troubleshooting Settings

ViewSystem Logs View Syslog

ViewSupport Information View support Information

Select the first item Configure Password, click the "enter" key to confirm, prompt to enter the old password and the second new password, press "enter", the password change is complete.

two。 Network Settin

Set static IP address as the IP address is obtained by DHCP by default, static IP address should be configured in the enterprise environment. Select Configure Management Network and press "enter" key to confirm and select IPV4.

NetworkAdapters network card selection

VLAN (optional) set VLan

IPv4Configuration sets the IPv4 address

IPv6Configuration sets the IPv4 address

DNSConfiguration sets the DNS address

CustomDNS Suffixes Custom DNS suffix

Press the space key to select the third item and set the static IP address, mask, and gateway information.

DisableIPv4 configuration for management network disables IPv4 address

Usedynamic IPv4 address and network configuration configure dynamic IPv4 address

Setstatic IPv4 address and network configuration configure static IPv4 address

3. Set DNS and native name

Select DNS Configuration and press "enter" to confirm

You can change DNS and local name according to your actual needs. Press enter to confirm.

That's OK. Mission accomplished!

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