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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Configurations
Alternatively, use the Select All and Deselect All options at the bottom of the list of drives to select or deselect all
available drives. If you select drives of varying sizes, the usable space on each drive is restricted to the size of the
smallest selected drive.
NOTE Be sure to select the number of drives required by the specified RAID
level, or the HII utility will return you to the root menu when you try to
create the virtual drive. For example, RAID 1 virtual drives use exactly
two drives, and RAID 5 virtual drives use three or more virtual drives.
See Table 24 for more information.
4. When you have selected all of the drives for the new virtual drive, highlight Apply Changes and press Enter to
create the virtual drive.
NOTE If you selected drives of varying sizes, the HII utility shows a message
warning stating that the remaining free capacity on the larger drives
would be unusable.
5. If the warning message about different size capacities appears, press the spacebar to confirm the configuration,
then highlight Ye s and press Enter.
The HII utility returns you to the Create Configuration dialog.
6. Highlight Save Configuration and press Enter to create the virtual drive.
A message appears confirming that the configuration is being created.
7. Highlight OK and press Enter to acknowledge the confirmation message.
The following table describes the policies that you can change when creating a virtual drive.
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