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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Option
Disk Cache Policy
Default Initialization
Save Configuration
5.3.2
Manually Creating a Virtual Drive
The following dialog appears when you select Create Virtual Drive from the Configuration Management menu.
Figure 67 Create Configuration Window
The small red arrow at the bottom of the window indicates that you can scroll down to view more information.
Perform these steps to select options for a new configuration (that is, a new virtual drive) on the controller.
1.
Highlight the Select RAID Level field and press Enter.
2.
Select a RAID level for the virtual drive from the pop-up menu.
The available RAID levels are listed in the help text of the Create Configuration dialog. Some system
configurations do not support all these RAID levels. See
3.
To view the Secure Virtual Drive field, enable security and attach an FDE drive. If either is missing, the field is
grayed out.
4.
To view the Protect Virtual Drive field, enable protection and attach a protected drive. If either is missing, the
field is grayed out.
5.
If the security key is enabled, highlight the Secure Virtual Drive field to secure the new virtual drive.
This field is not available unless the security feature is already enabled.
Displays the virtual drive cache setting. The possible options are Unchanged, Enable,
and Disable.
Displays the virtual drive initialization setting. The Default Initialization displays the
following options:
No – Do not initialize the virtual drive.
Fast – Initializes the first 100 MB on the virtual drive.
Full – Initializes the entire virtual drive.
Saves the configuration that the wizard created.
NOTE
The red arrow appears when there is too much information to display
in one dialog. The amount of information that can be displayed in one
dialog depends upon the capabilities of the HII browser.
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Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Configurations
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