Hi Guys,
A client bought a New Poweredge T130 with two 1TB drives inside + a PERC H330 RAID Controller.
He got the Windows server 2012 R2 foundation preinstalled by Dell but seems he did not instruct them to setup RAID 1 - I can see the two drives in Windows Explorer
SO - with the Dell Lifecycle Controller utility it seems I can add RAID 1 to mirror the main drive. Here are the Qs:
1. If I go ahead with this will the previous intsall of Server 2012 be removed? Will I have to reinstall Server 2012 Foundation?
2. Any way to do this and leave the factory Server install?
3. Is it actually worth going to trouble of leaving the factory install, just deploy again via LifeCycle controller?
Their is NO DATA or software except for vanilla windows server 2012 installed on the system
On boot up into Server 2012 foundation it asked me to partition the OS drive - I gave it 120GB
BTW - will RAID 1 Mirror the whole OS Drive, 2 partitions ( C, D ) to the empty 2nd iTB Drive already in there?
This is a simple setup - only 5 workstations off this unit. No real security required. Only reason for server is it is needed to run certain practice management software. The client asked me to do Mirror ..