Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 - Optimum Controller Settings for Cachecade; Optimum Controller Settings for Fastpath; Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration

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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 8: Configuration
| Creating a New Storage Configuration
 Disk cache policy: Select a cache setting for this drive:
— Enabled: Enable the disk cache.
— Disabled: Disable the disk cache.
— Unchanged: (the default) Leave the current disk cache policy unchanged.
8.1.2 Optimum Controller settings
for CacheCade
Write Policy: Write Back
IO Policy: Cached IO
Read Policy: No Read Ahead
Stripe Size: 64 KB
8.1.3 Optimum Controller settings
for FastPath
Write Policy: Write Through
IO Policy: Direct IO
Read Policy: No Read Ahead
Stripe Size: 64 KB
8.1.4 Creating a Virtual Drive Using
Simple Configuration
Simple configuration is the quickest and easiest way to create a new storage
configuration. When you select simple configuration mode, the system creates the best
configuration possible using the available drives.
NOTE: You cannot created spanned drives using the simple configuration procedure.
To create spanned drives, use the advanced configuration procedure described in
Section8.1.5, Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration.
Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in simple configuration mode.
1. Perform either of the following steps:
a. Right-click the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the
MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select
Create Virtual Drive .
b. Select the controller node and select
Go To>Controller>Create Virtual Drive in
the menu bar, as shown in Figure141.