Dell PowerEdge 2950 - 5 PACK! - Servers with 2x3.0GHz Quad Processors and 8GB Memory, 2x300GB 10K SAS Hard Drives. No OS

[Music] hi this is tech mike our customers often ask for assistance in setting up a raid array in their new techmic and y server in this video tutorial we'll provide step-by-step instructions for how to set up a raid array in a dell poweredge server the perk or poweredge raid controller that we're using is an h730 and the server is a dell r73 but the steps are virtually identical between all dell poweredge servers when the boot menu pops up press ctrl r this will bring up a list of the physical drives available for configuration into a raid array click f2 operations clear config this ensures that you are removing any previous raid configuration that existed on the controller and disks click yes now with all previous configurations cleared we can create our new virtual disk select the perk create vd since our server has seven drives it is standard to make the first two drives raid one as