VessRAID Setup - Promise Technology, Inc.

Creating a Disk Array – Advanced
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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU
For more information on the choices below, see “Chapter 8: Technology
Background” on page 245.
To create a disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight Create New Array and press Enter.
3. Highlight Configuration Method and press the spacebar to toggle to
Advanced.
4. Choose whether to enable Media Patrol and PDM.
5. If you want to specify an alias to the disk array, highlight Alias and type a
name.
Maximum of 31 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and
underscore.
6. Highlight Save Settings and Continue and press Enter.
7. Highlight a physical drive you want to add to your array and press the
spacebar to choose it.
Repeat this action until you have selected all the physical drives for your
array.
Note that you cannot mix HDDs and SSDs in the same disk array.
8. Highlight Save Settings and Continue and press Enter.
9. If you want to specify an alias to the logical drive, highlight Alias and type a
name.
Maximum of 31 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and
underscore.
10. Highlight RAID Level and press the spacebar to toggle though a list of
available RAID levels.
11. If you want to create multiple logical drives, highlight Capacity, press the
backspace key to remove the current value, then type a new smaller value.
12. Highlight Number of Axles and press the spacebar to choose the number of
axles. Applies to RAID 50 and 60 only.
13. Highlight Stripe and press the spacebar to toggle through stripe sizes and
choose 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1 MB.
14. Highlight Sector and press the spacebar to toggle through sector sizes and
choose 512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, or 4 KB.
15. Highlight Write Policy and press the spacebar to toggle write cache policy
between WriteBack and WriteThru (write though).
16. Highlight Read Policy and press the spacebar to toggle read cache policy
though ReadCache, ReadAhead, and NoCache.