Chapter 8 Storage Manager
Cloud Storage User’s Guide
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8.3.2 Managing a Volume
Use the Manage Volume screen to repair, expand a volume or change the volume’s RAID type. In
the Internal Storage > Volume screen, select a volume and then click Manage in the Volume
section to open the screen as shown.
The available options vary depending on the conditions it matches. For example, the Repair RAID
option is available only when a degraded volume is selected.
Select one or more hard disks where you want to create a volume. Use the check box on
the top to select or unselect all entries in this column.
Disk Name This field shows the name of the hard disk.
Size This field shows the total disk size.
Model Name This field shows the model of the hard disk.
Choose a RAID
type
Select a RAID type from the drop-down list box. The corresponding space allocations of
available size, data protection area, and wasted size display.
Use Basic with one disk.
Use JBOD with two or more disks for maximum capacity.
Use RAID 0 with two or four disks for maximum speed.
Use RAID 1 with two or more disks to mirror primary data to another disk(s) with high
performance.
Use RAID 5 with three or more disks to balance performance, hard disk capacity usage
with data protection in case of disk failure.
Use RAID 6 with four disks for more data protection in case of disk failure.
Use RAID 10 with four disks to get better performance than RAID 6, with slightly less data
protection.
See Table 8 on page 50 or Section 8.6 on page 98 for more information.
Note: Use the same capacity of hard disks for RAID 1, 5, 6, or 10 to avoid wasting space.
Back This button is not available at this step.
Next Click Next to go to the next step.
Cancel Click Cancel to close the screen without saving any settings.
Step 2. Summary
Use this screen to review the settings you configured in the last step.
Disk Selected This field displays the hard disks you have selected.
RAID Type This field displays the type of RAID on which the volume will be built.
Volume Type This field displays the type of the volume, Single volume on RAID (no disk group).
Volume Name This field displays the name of the volume.
Volume
Capacity
This field displays the size of the volume.
Back Click Back to go to the previous step.
Apply Click Apply to save the settings.
Cancel Click Cancel to close the screen without saving any settings.
Table 12 Create Volume (continued)
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