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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 when you create a virtual drive.

Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced configuration mode.

  1. Perform either of the following steps:
    • Right-click 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 5.
      • Figure 5 Virtual Drive Creation Menu



      The dialog box shown in Figure 6 appears.
      Figure 6 Virtual Drive Creation Mode



  2. Click Advanced and press Next.
    3. The Create Drive Group Settings screen appears.
  3. Select the following items on the Create Drive Group Settings screen:
    1. Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop-down menu.
      2. The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1 and 1E. In addition, it supports independent drives configured as RAID 0. The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select. The RAID levels you can choose depend on the number of drives available.
    2. Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add > to add them to the drive group.
      3. The selected drives appear under the heading Drive groups.
    3. Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group.
    4. Click Next to complete this step.
      5. The Virtual drive settings window appears. The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear. The virtual drive settings are grayed out.

      The Virtual drive settings screen shows the same virtual drive parameters that display for a MegaRAID controller, but they are in disabled mode (grayed out) because these parameters do not apply to the SAS-IR controllers.

  4. Click Create Virtual Drive.
    5. The new virtual drive appears under the drive group.
  5. Click Next.
    6. The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears. This window shows the selections you made for advanced configuration.
  6. Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration.
    7. The new storage configuration will be created and initialized.
DB09-000202-02 37857-00 Rev. C  August 2009
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