First Virtual Communications 3000 user manual Partitioning a Logical Volume

RAID Controller Configuration

Partitioning a Logical Volume

Now that we have created two RAID sets we will partition them into logical volumes for the host CPU’s use. This is done by selecting View and Edit Logical Drives, selecting the logical volume to partition and press e. Select the Partition Logical Drive option from the menu shown in Figure 4-24.

Figure 4-24 Allocating Capacities to partitions

Answer YES to the dialogue and the logical drive partition table will appear as shown in Figure 4-25.

Figure 4-25 Logical Drive Partition Table

Press the ekey and enter the desired capacity of the first partition. Repeat this for the remaining partitions. In the example shown in Figure 4-26 the logical volume has been divided up into five partitions, each having varying capacities.

Figure 4-26 Allocating capacities to partitions

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