Creating a Logical Drive
To Create a Logical Drive:
1. Select Create Logical Drive from the Configuration category. The Create Logical Drive window is displayed.
2. Select members for the new logical drive by clicking drive icons in the Front View window. Select drives in a different enclosure by clicking the enclosure tab button.
3. Listed below are the icons used for different drive conditions:
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New or
healthy drive |
Bad or empty drive |
Spare drive |
* Bad drives or drives used by another logical drive are unavailable for the creation process.
4. Drives selected for a new logical drive will be listed in the Selected Members sub-window on the right side.
5. RAID Level: Select a RAID level from the pull-down menu below.
6. Drive Size: Enter a smaller number if you do not want to use up all of the capacity this time. The unused capacity can be utilized later using the Expand Logical Drive function.
7. Wirte Policy: Define the write policy that will be applied to this array. "Default" means identical to the subsystem's default setting.
8. Stripe Size: Select a stripe size; only recommended for experienced users. Stripe size defaulted to this menu is determined by the subsystem optimization mode.
9. LD Assignment: Select the RAID controller that will manage the logical drive.
10. Initialization: this allows you immediate availability of the array. "Online" means the logical drive is immediately available for IOs and the initialization process can be automatically completed some time later.
11. Click the OK button to complete the process. Click the Reset button to redo or abort the process.
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