3-2 Windows Setup and OperationDISK OPERATIONSNEC Express5800/ft series duplicates disks to secure data by using “Disk Management.” Thissection describes operations such as configuration of dual settings to disks and replacement of disks.Disks Operations Using Disk ManagementThis section describes the disk operations using the disk management.Disk ManagementNEC Express5800/ft series ensures reliability by executing software mirroring to hard disk volumesusing Windows. Use Windows’ “Disk Management” to manipulate volumes. ᴾRefer to the online help for the operating procedures of “Disk Management.”Steps to refer to the help of operating procedures:1. Click [Start] - [Help and Support].2. Select [Disks and Data] from the topics on the help.3. Select [Managing Disks and Volumes] - [Disk Management] - [How To…], then check theoperating procedures.Hard Disk Configurations that can be Built on the NEC Express5800/ftseriesIn the NEC Express5800/ft series, you need to create mirrors on all volumes and make the volumesdynamic mirror volumes.IMPORTANT: Dynamic simple volumes can construct dynamic mirror volumes by adding mirror.However, dynamic mirror volumes cannot be constructed from dynamic span volumes,dynamic stripe volumes, or dynamic RAID5 volumes. Volumes that are already used for constructing dynamic mirror volumes cannot be used toadd mirror.When creating mirror volume, slot 0 and 3, slot 1 and 4, and slot 2 and 5 should be the mirroredpairs.
