Method for automatic RAID configuration on data storage media
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsRezwanul Kabir, Ahmad Ali, Tesfamariam Michael
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Abstract
A method of configuring a virtual disk for an information handling system is disclosed. The method comprises embedding a data structure onto a data storage medium prior to installing the medium into an information handling system. The data structure makes up a default policy for configuration of a RAID container using the data storage medium and is recognizable by a controller. When the controller identifies the data structure the controller will read the data structure and configure the medium having the structure into a virtual disk such as a RAID container.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- storing data on an unconfigured data storage medium, wherein the data identifies a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) default configuration policy stored on the unconfigured data storage medium, and wherein the RAID default configuration policy is written in a format that can be identified by a plurality of distinct RAID controllers;
- adding the unconfigured data storage medium to an information handling system (IHS);
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- creating a virtual disk after adding the unconfigured data storage medium to the IHS and detecting the RAID default configuration policy.
An apparatus for storing data comprising:
- a data storage medium having a RAID default configuration policy stored thereon, wherein the data storage medium is otherwise unconfigured, and wherein the RAID default configuration policy is written in a format that can be identified by a plurality of distinct RAID controllers;
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- an information handling system (IHS) in communication with the data storage medium, the IHS operable to create a virtual disk and to detect the RAID default configuration policy after adding the data storage medium to the IHS.
A method comprising:
- adding an unconfigured data storage medium to an information handling system (IHS),
- the unconfigured data storage medium includes data that identifies a RAID default configuration policy stored on the unconfigured data storage medium, and wherein the RAID default configuration policy is written in a format that can be identified by a plurality of distinct RAID controllers;
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- attempting detection of the RAID default configuration policy after adding the unconfigured data storage medium to the IHS and prior to creating a virtual disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.