Dell Computer Drive manual Automatic Configuration, Manual Configuration

performed in the department: Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), internal billing, and so forth. In this scenario, the AR and AP virtual disks probably need more capacity than the internal billing virtual disk.

NOTE: In Linux, the host must be rebooted after deleting virtual disks to reset the /dev entries.

NOTE: Before you can use a virtual disk, you must register the disk with the host systems. This process is described in “Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping” on page 60.

Automatic Configuration

If you want to set up virtual disks quickly, click the Configure tab and then click Automatic Configuration. With this option, you do not need to configure individual options for each virtual disk. When you use automatic configuration:

•All available unconfigured capacity on the array is used.

•All disk groups have the same RAID level.

•All virtual disks have equal capacity.

•The number of virtual disks created is based on the selected RAID level and available unconfigured capacity.

•For a RAID level 1 or 5 disk group, hot spare drives are selected automatically based on the number of drives and types of drives available in the storage array.

Manual Configuration

To create individual virtual disks or disk groups, click the Configure tab and then click Create Virtual Disks. You create one disk group and virtual disk at a time, but have control over the RAID level and capacity for each virtual disk and disk group. Use this method if you have unique capacity requirements for a disk group or virtual disk.

Creating a Disk Group and Virtual Disk From Unconfigured Capacity

Use the following procedure to manually create a disk group:

1Click the Configure tab, then click Create Virtual Disks.

2Select Unconfigured capacity on the Create Virtual Disks – Select Capacity Type page, then click Next.

Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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