Dell Lifecycle Controller 2 Operation Manual

Performing a Break-Mirror Operation Using
Lifecycle Controller

This Dell Technical White Paper provides the procedure to perform Break-Mirror
operation using Lifecycle Controller on the 12th Generation servers and later of
Dell.

Dell Engineering
November 2013

Aruna Jayaprakash

Balaji K

Bala Gupta

Vinod P S

Sheshadri P.R. Rao

A Dell Technical White Paper

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Nov 2013 Initial release

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Contents

Revisions .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Performing Break-Mirror Operation Using Lifecycle Controller ................................................................................................ 6

Pre-requisites........................................................................................................................................................................................14

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Executive Summary

This whitepaper provides the procedure to perform Break-Mirror operation using Lifecycle Controller on
the 12th generation servers and later of Dell.

Introduction

Break-Mirror is a feature in the Lifecycle Controller of the 12th generation servers and later of Dell that is
used to replicate the data from one server to another by safely breaking or isolating a RAID1 virtual disk.
This feature enables easy operation by providing an intuitive, user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI).

Figure 1 The Break-Mirror Page

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