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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Configurations
6. If protection is enabled, highlight the Protect Virtual Drive .
This field is not available unless the protection feature is already supported by the controller.
7. Highlight the Select Drives From field, press Enter, and select Unconfigured Capacity or Free Capacity.
Free capacity means the new virtual drive is created from unused (free) drive capacity that is already part of a
virtual drive. Unconfigured capacity means the new virtual drive is created on previously unconfigured drives.
8. Highlight the Virtual Drive Name field, press Enter, and enter a name for the new virtual drive.
9. (Optional) Change the Virtual Drive Size Unit value by highlighting this field, pressing Enter, and selecting a
value from the pop-up menu.
The options are MB, GB, and TB.
10. (Optional) Change the default values for Strip Size, Read Policy, Write Policy, I/O Policy, Access Policy, Drive
Cache, Disable Background Initialization, and Default Initialization.
See Table 23 for descriptions of these options.
11. Highlight Select Drives and press Enter.
The following dialog appears.
Figure 68 Select Drives Window
Follow these steps to select physical drives for the new virtual drive.
1. (Optional) Change the default Select Media Type by highlighting this field, pressing Enter, and selecting an
option from the pop-up menu.
The choices are HDD and SSD. Combining HDDs and SSDs in a single virtual drive is not supported.
2. (Optional) Change the default Select Interface Type by highlighting this field, pressing Enter, and selecting an
option from the pop-up menu.
The choices are SAS, SATA, and Both. Depending on the configuration of your system, combining SAS and SATA
drives in a virtual drive might not be supported.
3. Select physical drives for the virtual drive by highlighting each drive and pressing the spacebar to select it. A small
red arrow at the bottom of the window indicates you can scroll down to view more drives.
NOTE The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display
in one dialog. The amount of information that can be displayed in one
dialog depends on the capabilities of the HII browser.
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