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Configure a virtual disk for OS deployment on the PowerEdge 740 server:
You are about to execute a server control action. Are you sure you want to continue?
The system restarts.
press CTRL + R to Run configuration utility
Note: The OS partition is not I/O intensive. RAID 1 is recommended for OS partitions so that they have hardware redundancy.
It is recommended that all newly created logical drives be initialized unless you are attempting to recreate a previous configuration and recover data as initialization is a destructive process. Are you sure you want to skip initialization?
The virtual disk is created.