4-36 Configuring Your Server

7.Press F10 to create logical drive.

The "Logical Drives Configure" screen appears. (The figure below shows an example of RAID1 configured with two hard disk drives.)

 

 

 

Logical Drives Configured

 

 

 

 

 

LD

RAID

Size

#Stripes

Stripe Sz

Status

0

1

xxxMB

2

64KB

ONLINE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logical Drive0

RAID = 1

Size = xxxxMB

DWC = On

RA = On

Accept

Span = NO

8.Select "RAID," "Size", "DWC", "RA", or "Span" by using cursor keys. Then press Enter to fix the selection and set each value.

(1)"RAID": Sets RAID level.

Parameter Remarks

0RAID0

1RAID1

10

Spanning of RAID1

The selectable RAID level varies depending on the number of hard disk drives that configure a pack.

(2) "Size": Sets logical drive size.

Up to 40 logical drives can be created per disk array controller.

(3) "DWC": Sets parameter for Disk Write Cache.

Parameter

Remarks

Off

Write through

On

Write back

(4) "RA": Sets parameter for Read Ahead.

Parameter

Remarks

Off

Does not perform read ahead.

On

Performs read ahead.