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Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration

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10. Click Next. The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears, as shown in the following figure. This window shows the selections you made for a simple configuration. Figure 25 Create Virtual Drive - Summary Window 11. Click Back to return to the previous window to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration. The new virtual drive is created after you click Finish. After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully. Note: If you create a large configuration using drives that are in a powersave mode, it could take several minutes to spin up the drives. A progress bar appears as the drives spin up. If any of the selected unconfigured drives fail to spin up, a box appears that identifies the drive or drives. Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive. In addition, you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups. Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode. This example shows the configuration of a spanned drive group. 1. Access the Create Virtual Drive dialog by performing either of the following steps: - Right-click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen, and select Create Virtual Drive. - Select the controller node, and select Go To->Controller->Create Virtual Drive in the menu bar, as shown in the following figure. Page 42 DB09-000202-05 37857-02 Configuration Rev. F - May 2011 Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Configuration
DB09-000202-05 37857-02
Rev. F - May 2011
Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
10. Click
Next
.
The
Create Virtual Drive - Summary
window appears, as shown in the following figure. This
window shows the selections you made for a simple configuration.
Figure 25
Create Virtual Drive - Summary Window
11. Click
Back
to return to the previous window to change any selections or click
Finish
to accept
and complete the configuration.
The new virtual drive is created after you click
Finish
. After the configuration is completed, a
dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully.
Note:
If you create a large configuration using drives that are in a powersave mode, it
could take several minutes to spin up the drives. A progress bar appears as the
drives spin up. If any of the selected unconfigured drives fail to spin up, a box
appears that identifies the drive or drives.
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage
configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration
because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive.
In addition, you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups.
Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode. This
example shows the configuration of a spanned drive group.
1.
Access the Create Virtual Drive dialog by performing either of the following steps:
–
Right-click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID
Storage Manager main menu screen, and select
Create Virtual Drive.
–
Select the controller node, and select
Go To->Controller->Create Virtual Drive
in the
menu bar, as shown in the following figure.