Promise Technology Version 4.4 user manual Create an Array

Promise Array Management

Every User has least one of these three Rights and can change his/her own password. The Administrator can assign more or fewer rights to other Users but cannot change their passwords.

3.Type in a Username and Password in their respective fields. Check all the appropriate boxes to set access rights. Click the Commit button when you are done.

The new user’s name appears in the Tree View (right).

Create an Array

1.In Tree View, click the + to the left of the Controller icon to see the Channels. Click the + to the left of each Channel icon to see the unassigned disk drives. Unassigned drives have this icon.

The available RAID selection depends on the number of disk drives available. The table below lists the Levels and drives required.

See the Appendix A in this Manual for a more detailed description.

RAID Level	Name	Minimum	Maximum
		drives	drives
0	Striping	2	4
1	Mirroring	2	2
0+1	Striping + Mirroring	4	4
5	Distributed Parity	3	4
JBOD	Single Drive	1	4

Table 2. RAID Levels available with FastTrak SX4000 series and S150 SX4.

2.Right-click on the Controller icon and select New Array from the popup menu (right). A Create Array icon appears.

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