Creating a New Storage Configuration Using The Advanced Configuration Option

Selecting Available Unconfigured Drive

Selecting Virtual Drive Settings

The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive. In addition, you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups.

NOTE  When a physical drive is in the Prepare for Removal state, you cannot create a virtual drive using that physical drive.

Perform the following steps to create an advanced storage configuration.

1.	On the Server dashboard or the Controller dashboard, select Configure > Advanced Configuration.

The Advanced Configuration window opens.

2.	Select a RAID level for the drive group from the drop-down box.

3.	(Optional) click Compare and Select to view the detailed information on each RAID level.

When you use advanced configuration, the RAID controller supports RAID levels 00, 10, 50, 60, RAID 1E, and Spanned R1E (PRL-11). The window text gives a brief description of the RAID level that you select. The RAID levels that you can choose depend on the number of drives available.

4.	(Optional) Select the Encryption check box if you want to apply the encryption logic to secure the data in the virtual drive.

You can add a hot spare to all of the RAID levels except RAID 0. Also, you can create a secured virtual drive only when the security capable drives are present. This check box is disabled when there are no secured drives.

5.	(Optional) Select the Data Protection check box to detect data corruption on media and prevent system errors caused by silent data corruption (SDC).

This check box is disabled when there are no secured drives.

6.	Click Next.

7.	Click Add Physical Drives to add physical drives to the drive group.

The Available Unconfigured Drive window appears.

For information on adding the unconfigured drives to the drive group, see Selecting Available Unconfigured Drive.

8.	Select the span depth using the slider bar.

9.	Click Add Virtual Drives to add virtual drives to the drive group.

The Virtual Drive Settings window appears.

For information on configuring virtual drives, see Selecting Virtual Drive Settings.

10.	Click Finish.

A message appears stating that the configuration is complete.