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Note: If the physical drive size exceeds 2TB, Express configuration removes
drives until the size is less than 2 TB. It creates an additional array
with the left-over drive(s).
– Designates a hot-spare drive for the controller. If one or more arrays has four
or more physical drives, the largest-sized drive from those arrays will be
designated the hot-spare drive.
Note:
When you choose Express configuration, you have the opportunity to
review and approve the configuration before the ServeRAID Manager
applies the configuration. If you need to modify the configuration, you
can do it from the configuration summary.
v Click Custom configuration for a path that lets you manually configure your
ServeRAID controller. Choose this path to do any of the following:
– Configure your controller manually.
– Assign RAID level-1E, RAID level-5E, RAID level-5EE, or RAID level-x0 to a
logical drive.
– Create more than one logical drive per array.
Using
the Custom path, you can:
– Select the physical drives that you want to include in each array and that you
want to use as hot-spare drives.
– Define the number, size, and RAID level of the logical drives for each array.
– Review the configuration summary.
Click Automatically initialize new logical drives. Initializing a logical drive erases
the first 1024 sectors on the drive and prevents access to any data previously
stored on the drive. You can initialize the drive later if you do not choose
automatic initialization.
When you are ready to continue, click Next.
More information
v Understanding stripe-unit size
v Initializing a logical drive
v Understanding physical drive capacity and unusable capacity
Creating arrays and hot-spare drives
Complete the following steps to create arrays:
1. Start the custom configuration wizard and complete all previous steps.
2. Click the appropriate Array tab in the right pane:
3. Then, from the list of ready drives, select the drives you want to add to the
array:
4. Click
>> (Add selected drives) to add the drives to the array. You can
click
>> (Add all drives) to move all ready drives to an array.
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