BIOS Configuration Utility Menu OptionsThe first menu that is displayed when you access the BIOS Configuration Utility is the mainmenu screen. It lists the controller, controller number, and other information, such as the slot number.On the screen, you can use the arrow keys to select the RAID controller you want to configure. Press to access the controllerThis section describes the options for the BIOS Configuration Utility ( ) for each of the majormenus:• Virtual Disk Management (VD Mgmt) menu• Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt) menu• Controller Management (Ctrl Mgmt) menu• Foreign Configuration View (Foreign View) menuMost menus consist of two panels:• A left panel with the menu options• A right panel with details of the items selected in the left panelThe following sections describe the menu and submenu options for each of the major menus:Virtual Disk ManagementThe Virtual Disk Management screen, VD Mgmt is the first screen that is displayed when you access aRAID controller from the main menu screen on the BIOS Configuration Utility ( ). The leftpanel displays the menus for the virtual disk management as given below:Controller—Consists of the sub-menu item Disk Group which again has the following sub-menu items:• Virtual Disks• Physical Disks• Total Free Capacity (virtual disk size and free space you can use to create a virtual disk)• Hot Spares (global and dedicated)The right panel displays detailed information for the selected controllers, disk groups, virtual disks,physical disks, total free capacity, and hot spares, as shown in the following table:Table 5. Information on the Virtual Disk Management ScreenMenu Item Selected in Left Panel Information Displayed in Right PanelController Controller Properties:• Number of disk groups (DG)• Number of virtual disks (VD)• Number of physical disks (PD)Disk Group # Disk Group # Properties:• Number of virtual disks (VD)• Number of physical disks (PD)• Space available on the physical disks52
