Lenovo ThinkServer RD240 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide - Page 261
Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration, Create Virtual Drive
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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 to identify the drive or drives. After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully. 8.1.3 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. Perform either of the following steps: - Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select Create Virtual Drive - Select the controller node and select Operations->Create Virtual Drive in the menu bar, as shown in Figure 8.5 Creating a New Storage Configuration 8-9