Creating a logical drive

Procedure
  1. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > controller > Array Configuration > Manage Arrays > array > Create Logical Drive.
  2. In the Create Logical Drive screen, select the RAID level, and then click Proceed to next Form.
  3. In the Set Logical Drive Configuration screen, use the default values for the configuration or specify different values.

    Setting

    		Description
    Logical Drive Label Use the default selection for the drive label or enter a new label. The characters in the label can be alphanumeric or spaces.
    Strip Size/Full Stripe Size Strip size is the amount of data that is stored on each physical drive in the array. The full stripe size is the amount of data that the controller can read or write simultaneously on all the drives in the array. For RAID levels that support fault tolerance through parity, the parity information is calculated one full strip size at a time.

    You can specify from 8KiB to 1024KiB, depending on the number of disks and RAID level. The default value is all available space.

    If you use SmartRAID S100i SW RAID, the minimum size is 16KiB, and the maximum size is 256KiB.

    Size Values in decimal; minimum RAID size is 16 MiB.
    Unit Size Logical drive unit size (MiB/GiB/TiB).
    Acceleration Method Logical drive acceleration method (controller cache or none).
  4. Click Submit Changes.