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Table 17. Virtual Drive Tabs Tab Heading General Events Background Tasks Description The General tab displays a table with the following information: • Current status of the virtual drive (i.e., status, health, operation state) • Virtual drive configuration data (i.e., name, total space, RAID level, server assignment and drive number) Displays all system events for the selected virtual drive. Displays all active tasks. Virtual Drive Help To quickly access additional help regarding the virtual drive actions and tabs, click on the Get Help button in the Virtual Drive help box located under the actions box. Editing Virtual Drive Server Configuration Once a virtual drive is created, an IT administrator can change the name, size, server assignment, and storage control module affinity at any time. This section describes the Assign action. Use the assign action to change the current virtual drive server assignment. A virtual drive can be assigned to one or more servers and can be assigned any drive number that is available on the selected server. Each drive found by the operating system is given a number (drive position) based on the order found. The server does not need to be present to assign a drive because the system maintains the assignment based on server slot position. When a compute module is replaced, the virtual drives assigned to the compute module bay are automatically assigned to the replacement compute module. This allows an IT administrator to quickly replace a compute module without changing the storage configuration or assigned resources, thereby resulting in no impact to stored data. The virtual drive in drive position 0 is the only drive available for the boot device. For example, if you assign five virtual drives to a server and then enter the BIOS boot order setup menu for that server, you will only see one virtual drive listed there and that would be the virtual drive at drive position 0. However, after the operating system boots, all five virtual drives will be available for use. To assign a virtual drive to a server, follow these steps: 1. From the Storage view, select a virtual drive. 2. Choose Assign from the action menu. The following dialog box appears. Intel® Modular Server System User Guide 83