OMSA may not but the PERC 5/i pre-boot gui should let you assign disks to stripes (I know the PERC 6/i can do this)
Nathan Shelby Director of Systems Engineering – Quote Wizard <https://quotewizard.com/> [email protected] / 206-753-2626 Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:09 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > OMSA only lets me create the VD , it doesn't let me specify which bays > will be striped or mirrored, I will take your advice and put the old drives > in 3,4 and the new ones in 5,6 > > thanks > > > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RAID 10 disks- PE 2950 > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:51:26 +0000 > > I believe that the Dell OpenManage Server Admin tool (Storage Manager) > V8.2 will give you the granularity to do this. > > Put your old drives in bays 3 & 4 and the new ones in 5 & 6. > > Install and launch the tool and use the Create Virtual Disk Advanced > Wizard. > > I would make sure that your system BIOS and Perc firmware are fully > updated first… > > > > Gordon > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *J- P > *Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:08 PM > *To:* NT > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] RAID 10 disks- PE 2950 > > > > Hi all, > > I have a PE 2950 with 6 bays and the perc 5/i controller, I have > purchased 2 new drives that I want to put create a RAID 10 array using bays > 3,4,5 and 6 > > (BAYS 1&2 are already mirrored for OS/Boot only) > > So I have 2 NEW drives and 2 OLD drives, what I'm trying to figure out is > how can I ensure that when I create the RAID 10 one stripe is the old disks > and the the mirrored stripe is using the new disks >
