4-46 Configuring Your ServerBefore Using WebBIOSRead the following sections describing supported functions and precautions before using"WebBIOS".Supported Functions Indication of model name and capacity of hard disk drive (called HDD hereafter) Indication of HDD allocation status Creation of virtual disk Setting of RAID level Setting of Stripe Block size Setting of Read Policy/Write Policy/IO Policy Indication of configuration information and status of virtual disk Removal of virtual disk Clearing of configuration Execution of initialization Execution of Consistency Check Execution of manual rebuild Execution of reconstructionNotes on Creating Virtual DriveThe HDDs configuring the disk group should have the same capacity and rotation speed. Be sure to execute Consistency Check after creating VD. When installing an OS in VD under the On board RAID (MegaRAID ROMB), create aVD dedicated to OS installation. WebBIOS cannot be handled via remote console functions of NEC DianaScope. The physical drive numbers shown in Physical Drives box differ from slot numbers of3.5-inch hard disk bay. "PD 0" denotes the physical drive number 0. See "Physical DriveProperties" described later. The physical drive numbers shown in Physical Drives box of WebBIOS may differ fromthose shown in MegaRAID Storage Manager. The physical drive number shown in Physical Drives box of WebBIOS is identical to theDevice ID shown in Disk Properties View of MegaRAID Storage Manager.
