Adaptec Storage Manager Creating Logical Drives

Chapter 9: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ●75
Creating Logical Drives
For basic instructions for creating logical drives, see Step 4: Building
Your Storage Space on page 47.
This section describes three additional scenarios for cr eating logical
drives:
●Setting the size of a new logical drive (see below)
●Including different-sized disk drives in a logical drive (see page 76)
●Creating a logical drive using available segments of disk drives (see
page 77)
Setting the Size of a Logical Drive
As described in Step 6 on page 53, Adaptec Storage Manager
automatically sets the size of a new logical drive to maximize the
capacity of the disk driv es that it c omprises. Ho wever, you can choose t o
set the size for a new logical driv e. You may want t o do this to maximize
your available disk drive space, or allocate available space to more than
one logical drive.
To set the size of a logical drive,
1Complete Steps 1 through 6 in C ustom Configur ation (A d va nced) on
page 51.
2Click Advanced Settings.
The maximum size of the logical drive appears in the Size (GB) box.
3Enter the new size for the logical drive. The size you enter must be
less than or equal to the maximum size.
4Click Next.
5Review the logical drive settings, click Apply, then click Yes.
Ad aptec Storage Mana ger builds the logical driv e. The configuration
is saved in the Adaptec controller and in the physical drives.
If the disk drives you used to create this logical drive have available
space left over, you can use them to create a new logical drive (see
page 77), or to expand an existing logical drive (see page 84).