Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide - Page 263

MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 8: Configuration | Creating a New Storage Configuration 8.1.2 Optimum Controller settings for CacheCade 8.1.3 Optimum Controller settings for FastPath 8.1.4 Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration  Disk cache policy: Select a cache setting for this drive: - Enabled: Enable the disk cache. - Disabled: Disable the disk cache. - Unchanged: (the default) Leave the current disk cache policy unchanged. Write Policy: Write Back IO Policy: Cached IO Read Policy: No Read Ahead Stripe Size: 64 KB Write Policy: Write Through IO Policy: Direct IO Read Policy: No Read Ahead Stripe Size: 64 KB Simple configuration is the quickest and easiest way to create a new storage configuration. When you select simple configuration mode, the system creates the best configuration possible using the available drives. NOTE: You cannot created spanned drives using the simple configuration procedure. To create spanned drives, use the advanced configuration procedure described in Section 8.1.5, Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration. Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in simple configuration mode. 1. Perform either of the following steps: a. Right-click the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select Create Virtual Drive. b. Select the controller node and select Go To>Controller>Create Virtual Drive in the menu bar, as shown in Figure 141. Page 263