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Step 3 – Logical Drive Creation

1. If you want to specify an alias to the logical drive, highlight Alias and type a name.

Maximum of 32 characters (letters, numbers, spaces and underscores).

2. Highlight RAID Level and press the spacebar to toggle though a list of available RAID levels.

3. If you want to create multiple logical drives, highlight Capacity, press the backspace key to

remove the current value, then type a new smaller value.

4. RAID 30, 50 and 60 only. Highlight Number of Axles and press the spacebar to choose the

number of axles.

5. For the following items, accept the default value or highlight and press the spacebar to choose

a new value:

• HighlightStripeandpressthespacebartotogglethroughstripe

sizesandchoose64KB,128KB,256KB,512KB,or1MB.

• HighlightSectorandpressthespacebartotogglethrough

sectorsizesandchoose512B,1KB,2KB,or4KB.

• HighlightWrite Policyandpressthespacebartotogglewritecache

policybetweenWriteBackandWriteThru(writethrough).

• HighlightRead Policyandpressthespacebartotogglereadcache

policythough[ReadCache,ReadAhead,andNoCache].

6. Highlight Save Logical Drive and press Enter.

Step 4 – Summary

Review logical drives you are about to create for your new array. Then do one of the following

actions:

• Ifyouagreewiththelogicaldrivesasspecied,highlightComplete Disk Array Creationand

pressEnter.

• Ifyouspeciedlessthanthefullcapacityforthelogicaldriveinthepreviousscreen,andyou

wanttoaddanotherlogicaldrivenow,highlightCreate New Logical DriveandpressEnter.

• Ifyoudonotagreewiththelogicaldrives,highlightReturn to Previous Screen andpress

Entertobegintheprocessagain.

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