Creating
logical drives
Note: The ServeRAID-7t
controller supports a maximum of 24 logical drives. However, under certain configuration scenarios,
the practical limit is 10 logical drives because
the ServeRAID-7t firmware supports a maximum of 10 "chunks" per physical drive.
Complete the following steps to create logical drives:
- In the Physical devices view (on the left), click the drives you want the
logical drive to use. To view available segments
on each disk drive, switch to the full-size capacity
view or relative-size capacity view.
Note: A segment
shaded in light blue and outlined by a dashed line is not part of any logical
drive.
- In the Name field, enter a name for the logical drive.
- If you do not want to use the maximum size for the logical
drive, click Advanced settings; then, type the size in the
Size (MB) field:
For HostRAID controllers,
the logical drive uses all of the space on each disk drive; you cannot adjust
the logical drive size.
- To configure the logical drive for optimal performance, adjust the advanced
settings as needed.
Note: The default
settings usually are adequate for most applications.
- If you have free space available and want to create additional logical drives,
click
;
then, repeat steps 1-4.
- When you are ready to continue, click Next. The "Configuration
summary" window opens.
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