Dell EMC H740P - Configuration Management; Creating Virtual Disks; Configuring Virtual Disk Parameters

Conguration management
Auto Congure RAID 0
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Conguration Management > Auto Congure RAID 0.
3 Select Conrm and click Yes to continue.
A RAID 0 Virtual disk is created on all physical disks that are in Ready state.
NOTE: This feature is not supported in eHBA mode.
Creating virtual disks
1 Enter the Dell PERC 10 Conguration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 conguration utility.
2 Click Main Menu > Conguration Management > Create Virtual Disk.
The following list of options are displayed for you to dene the virtual disk parameters:
• Select RAID level — allows you to choose the RAID level of your choice.
• Secure Virtual Disk — If you want to create a secured virtual disk, select Secure Virtual Disk.
NOTE
: The Secure Virtual Disk option is enabled by default, only if the security key has been congured. Only SED
physical disks are listed.
• Select Physical Disks From — allows you to select one of the physical disk capacities:
– Uncongured Capacity: creates a virtual disk on uncongured physical disks.
– Free Capacity: utilizes unused physical disk capacity that is already part of a virtual disk.
• Select Physical Disks — If you want to select the physical disks from which the virtual disks are being created, click Select
Physical Disks. This option is displayed if you select Uncongured Capacity as your physical disk capacity.
• Select Disk Groups — If you want to select the disk groups from which the virtual disks are being created, click Select Disk
Group. This option is displayed if you select Free Capacity as your physical disk capacity.
• Congure Virtual Disk Parameters — allows you to set the virtual disk parameters when creating the virtual disk. For more
information, see Conguring virtual disk parameters.
3 Click Create Virtual Disk.
The virtual disk is created successfully.
Conguring virtual disk parameters
1 Create a virtual disk, see Creating the virtual disks.
The CONFIGURE VIRTUAL DISK PARAMETERS section is displayed on the Create Virtual Disk screen.
2 In the CONFIGURE VIRTUAL DISK PARAMETERS section, you can set the following virtual disk parameters:
Table 8.
Conguring virtual disk parameters
Virtual disk parameters Description
Virtual Disk Name Allows you to enter the name for the virtual disk.
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