Add Logical Drive

Use this dialog to create a logical drive.

Name

Name for the logical drive.

A maximum of 255 alphanumeric characters, spaces, and special characters with no leading spaces.

RAID Level

The RAID level for the logical drive.

Supported RAID levels depend on the server hardware type and on the physical server configuration. Ensure you have enough physical drives present for the selected RAID level. If you do not have enough drives to support the selected RAID level, the server profile create or edit operation will fail.

Number of physical drives

Only values that meet the constraints of the RAID level are available.

Drive Technology

Ensure the target server hardware has enough physical drives of the selected drive technology to support the selected RAID level. Otherwise, the server profile create or edit operation will fail.

Accelerator

Available for Gen10 servers only. This setting indicates if the Smart Array controller should use an acceleration method to improve the performance of physical disk operations.

When set to Enabled, the Smart Array controller uses the write cache as the acceleration method.

Default: Managed manually.

Erase on delete

Yes

Erase the data from the physical drive when the logical drive is deleted from the server profile. The physical drives will be released from the SAS logical drive that is already allocated (not in a pending state) and then erased.

No

Do not erase the data from the physical drive when the logical drive is deleted from the server profile..

NOTE:

The drives will be inaccessible while the erasing process is in progress.

  • Once the server profile is applied to the server hardware, the new logical drives are assigned a number (logical drive ID). You can use the number to correlate the logical drives listed in the server profile and the HPE Smart Storage Administrator tool.

  • Logical drives created by the server profile use the maximum available disk space.

  • Logical drives are created on the target server hardware in the order specified in the server profile.

  • For the integrated storage controller, each logical drive allocates physical drives matching the specified drive technology. Physical drives are allocated in order from largest to smallest.

  • For controllers that support mixed mode (Gen10 servers), creating a logical drive uses the physical server drives that are currently visible to the operating system. To preserve any data, back up the server drives before creating a logical drive.