Using MegaRAID Advanced Software : Recovery Advanced Software : Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software

Enabling the Recovery Advanced Software

You can enable the Recovery advanced software in the MegaRAID Storage Manager software. When you enable Recovery, you create two virtual drives, one as a snapshot base or a source and the other as a snapshot repository. The base virtual drive contains the data that is stored in the repository virtual drive.

Perform the following steps to enable MegaRAID recovery:

1.

Select the Logical tab on the main menu dialog for the Logical view.

2.

Select and highlight a virtual drive from the list of virtual drives.

This is the snapshot base virtual drive.

NOTE  A base virtual drive and a repository virtual drive can be associated with the same drives or a common set of drives, or the two virtual drives can be located on two completely separate set of drives. Using a separate set of drives for the base virtual drive and the repository virtual drives provides a performance advantage over using a common set of drives.

3.

Select Go To > Virtual Drive > Enable MegaRAID Recovery on the menu bar.

The Enable MegaRAID Recovery wizard appears. This wizard allows you to select the virtual drive to use as the snapshot repository.