What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the
BTNHD and yes I finally hooked up the thinksystem
SE350 from Lenovo, which is a super small
edge server, very powerful.
This guy has around 256 gigs of memory two
power supplies got it hooked up, and I hooked
up the XCC port, with a Ethernet cable, VGA
and at the back we have connected a mouse
and a keyboard, because today we are going
to configure this guy with a RAID configuration
so I'm super excited.
We are going to power it on which the power
button is actually located right here at the
top is actually blinking green, let's turn
this guy on real quick.
And we can hear that power.
Beautiful.
I'm going to let this guy boot up.
Look at the screen real quick, we should sees,
like the thinksystem.
There you go.
thinksystem kind of BIOS menu.
And we're going to head to the lab, and we
are going to enter the xclarity controller
portal, so we can log in and start configuring
our raid system on the thinksystem SE350,
so let's get to it.
thinksystem SE350 is up and running with no
problem.
Awesome.
So let's get right into the RAID configuration
which is super simple.
So you are going to find a machine that is
part of the same network as your SE350 edge
server on the desktop you're going to open
up your favorite browser, it's up to you.
I'm going to open up Google Chrome, super
easy and on the address bar you are going
to type in the IP address of the BMC controller
of that server on the unboxing and first impressions
of the video we configured the IP address
of 115.
Hopefully you guys checked out that video
because I gave you kind of a quick glimpse
of how to configure the IP address on that
video okay so we are going to hit enter.
You're going to get your connection is not
private, which is okay.
Click on advance, and we're going to click
on the link that says proceed to this particular
IP address, click on it and it's going to
take you here to the xclarity controller.
Now the username and password would be USERID
or caps in the password will be password capitalized,
but the O is a zero.
Once you enter that information click on login,
it takes you here.
Awesome, or green checkmarks healthy, the
way it's supposed to be on the server right
on your left hand side we are going to click
on server configuration.
And there's the option how simple is that,
click on RAID setup.
Now within RAID setup it takes you directly
to RAID configuration, but I want to click
on storage inventory.
And this gives you a nice little bird's eye
view of, you know the type of hard drives
that I have now, Lenovo is nice enough to
send me a SE350 edge server with only two
m dot two solid state drives with only 480
gigs which is not that bad.
That means I can do like a raid five or raid
10.
All right, so let's head back inside the RAID
configuration.
And within the RAID configuration on your
right hand side you're going to see a hyperlink,
that says, enable Edit Mode we're going to
click on it, now we are inside Edit Mode,
and we are going to click on virtual disk
one, I just want to see what's already configured
again Lenovo gave me this machine with a virtual
disk already configured with a raid one.
So I'm going to close it.
I'm going to click on that trash icon, and
I want to actually remove this selected virtual
disk.
So let's click on remove, it's going to start
deleting the virtual disk, at the very top
of the web portal, it is going to state delete
virtual disk, success.
Awesome.
From here on your right hand side you see
an option that says controller actions, we're
going to click on it and you only have two
options clear RAID configuration or manage
foreign configuration.
I'm going to click on clear RAID configuration,
you're going to get this nice little warning
and I'm going to click Apply.
If everything works well at the very top of
the web portal, you're going to get clear
RAID success, which is a good thing now it's
time for us to create our virtual disk, I
know Lenovo gave me this machine with a virtual
disks already created but I just wanted to
show you guys how to create one yourself.
So we are going to click on Create Virtual
Disk, you get a nice little menu right here
let's start with get started.
We are going to click on the drop down menu
we only have one option so I'm going to leave
it as the default.
And then the second option is pick your raid
now because I only have two hard drives, or
two m.2 hard drives, we only have raid zero
and raid one.
So I'm going to pick raid one.
And from here I am going to select my hard
drives.
And I'm going to click on the button that
says, add members and it's going to move it
to the right hand side.
How simple is that, and then we're going to
click on Next.
Now the second step is to create your virtual
disk, you do have the option to click on the
pencil and to make extra modifications, but
I'm going to leave everything as the default
and then click on next here, you get a nice
little summary on step three, and then you
click on the button that say start creating
and it's going to start creating your new
virtual disk, and then voila, you're done.
Once you happy with your virtual disk and
you finalize it.
The next thing that we need to do on the right
hand side we're going to click on change to
read only mode, click on that.
And now you're done, and that's it guys hopefully
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