Adaptec 5325302053 User Guide - Page 102
Adding Capacity to a Pool, Changing a Pool’s RAID Level, Creating Pools with the Express Method
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Creating Pools with the Express Method To create pools: 1 Select Express configuration..., then click Next. 2 Review the information that is displayed. To exclude specific disk drives or to make other changes, click Modify pools. See Step 5 on page 39 for more information. 3 Click Apply, then click Yes to confirm. The pool is created. You can provision storage from a new pool immediately, without waiting for the build/verify process to complete. Caution Don't remove any drive included in the pool while the pool is building. Adding Capacity to a Pool You can add disk drives to an existing pool to expand its capacity without changing its RAID level. When you expand a pool, stored data is distributed (or migrated) across all the original and new disk drives. You can expand pools with any of these RAID levels: RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10. The maximum supported size for a pool is 512 TB. To increase the capacity of a pool: 1 In the Logical Devices View, select the pool you want. 2 In the Actions menu, click Expand or migrate pool. The wizard opens to the Choose RAID Level window. (Don't change the RAID level.) 3 Click Next. The Modify Pool window opens. 4 Select available disk drives to add to the pool. Unavailable disk drives are indicated by blue check marks. 5 Click Next, then review the pool settings. 6 Click Apply, then click Yes to expand the pool. The capacity of the pool is increased. You can use the new storage space right away. Changing a Pool's RAID Level If your requirements change, you can change the RAID level of an existing pool. You might want to do this to increase the capacity or performance of a pool, add redundancy to a pool, or to make disk drive space available for other uses.