5.4Configuring Logical Drives
After you have installed the MegaRAID SCSI
1.Optimize the MegaRAID SCSI
2.Press <Ctrl><M> to run the MegaRAID Manager.
3.If necessary, perform a
4.Customize the RAID array and define and configure one or more logical drives by selecting Easy Configuration or New Configuration.
5.Create and configure one or more system drives (logical drives) by selecting the RAID level, cache policy, read policy, and write policy.
6.Save the configuration.
7.Initialize the system drives.
After initialization, you can install the operating system.
5.4.1Optimizing Data Storage
5.4.1.1Data Access Requirements
Each type of data stored in the disk subsystem has a different frequency of read and write activity. If you know the data access requirements, you can more successfully determine a strategy for optimizing the disk subsystem capacity, availability, and performance.
Servers that support Video on Demand typically read the data often, but write data infrequently. Both the read and write operations tend to be long. Data stored on a
5.4.1.2Array Functions
You must first define the major purpose of the disk array. Will this disk array increase the system storage capacity for
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