Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Guide - Page 39
Creating Virtual Disks, Select Capacity, Finish, Manual, Manual Physical Disk Selection
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9 In the Select Capacity table, select the relevant disk group capacity, and click Finish. Repeat the procedure for a minimum of two disk groups and then proceed to "Creating Virtual Disks" on page 39. If you have selected Manual configuration, proceed to step 10. 10 For manual configuration, the Manual Physical Disk Selection window is displayed. 11 Choose the appropriate RAID level in Select RAID level. You can select RAID levels 0, 1/10, 6, and 5. Depending on the RAID level chosen, the physical disks available for the selected RAID level is displayed in Unselected physical disks table. 12 In the Unselected physical disks table, select the appropriate physical disks and click Add. NOTE: You can select multiple physical disks at the same time by holding or and selecting additional physical disks. 13 To view the capacity of the new disk group, click Calculate Capacity. 14 Click Finish. Repeat the procedure for a minimum of two disk groups and then proceed to "Creating Virtual Disks" on page 39. Creating Virtual Disks NOTE: Before creating virtual disks, organize the physical disks into disk groups and then create a virtual disk within each disk group. Create a minimum of two virtual disks dedicated for NAS storage. The NAS storage capacity can be expanded to a maximum of 16 virtual disks. The number of virtual disks must increment in pairs. NOTE: Minimum virtual disk size required for the PowerVault NX3500 is 125 GB. Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution 39