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.
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Right-click on the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen, and select Create Virtual Drive.
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Select the controller node, and select Go To>>Controller>>Create Virtual Drive in the menu bar, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 29 Virtual Drive Creation Menu
Figure 30 Virtual Drive Advanced Configuration Mode
2.
Click Advanced and press Next.
The Create Drive Group Settings window appears, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 31 Create Drive Group Settings
3.
Select the following items on the Create Drive Group Settings window:
a.
Select the RAID level desired for the drive group from the drop-down menu. To make a spanned drive, select RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60 in the RAID level field.
Drive Group 0 and Span 0 appear in the Drive groups field when you select RAID 10, RAID 50, or RAID 60.
The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. In addition, it supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00). The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select. The RAID levels you can choose depends on the number of drives available.
b.
Scroll down the menu for the Drive security method field if you want to set a drive security method.
The drive security feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use disk-based key management for your data security solution. This solution provides protection to the data in the event of the theft or loss of drives.
c.
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives, and click Add > to add them to the drive group.
The selected drives appear under Span 0 below Drive Group 0, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 32 Span 0 of Drive Group 0
d.
Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group.
e.
Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives, and click Add> to add them to the second drive group.
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The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 33 Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0
4.
Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group with the spans.
5.
Click Next to complete this step.
The Virtual Drive Settings window appears, as shown in the following figure. The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear. The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive.
Figure 34 Virtual Drive Settings Window
See Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration for more information about the virtual drive settings.
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Click Create Virtual Drive.
The new virtual drive appears under the drive group, as shown in the following figure. The options Update Virtual Drive and Remove Virtual Drive are available. Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive.
Figure 35 New Virtual Drive 0
8.
Click Next.
The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears, as shown in the following figure. This window shows the selections you made for advanced configuration.
Figure 36 Create Virtual Drive Summary Window
9.
Click Back to return to the previous screen to change any selections or click Finish to accept and complete the configuration.
The new storage configuration will be created and initialized.
NOTE If you create a large configuration using drives that are in powersave mode, it could take several minutes to spin up 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 that identifies the drive or drives
After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully. If more drive capacity exists, the dialog box asks whether you want to create more virtual drives. If no more drive capacity exists, you are prompted to close the configuration session.
10.
Select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to create additional virtual drives.
If you select Yes, the system takes you to the Create Virtual Drive screen. If you select No, the utility asks whether you want to close the wizard.
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If you selected No in the previous step, select Yes or No to indicate whether you want to close the wizard.
If you select Yes, the configuration procedure closes. If you select No, the dialog box closes, and you remain on the same page.
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