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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
4.
If you want to allow different types of drives in a configuration, select the Use the drive type mixing check box.
5.
Select the RAID level desired for the virtual drive.
When you use simple configuration, the RAID controller supports RAID levels 1, 5, and 6. In addition, it supports
independent drives (configured as RAID 0). 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.
6.
Select the Assign a hot spare check box if you want to assign a dedicated hot spare to the new virtual drive.
If an unconfigured good drive is available, that drive is assigned as a hot pare. Hot spares are drives that are
available to replace failed drives automatically in a redundant virtual drive (RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 6).
7.
Select the Use drive security check box if you want to set a drive security method.
The LSI SafeStore Data Security Service encrypts data and provides disk-based key management for your data
security solution. This solution protects the data in the event of theft or loss of drives. See Section
SafeStore Encryption
8.
Use the drop-down list in the Virtual drives field to choose how many virtual drives you want to create.
9.
Select the capacity of the virtual drives.
Each virtual drive has the same capacity.
10. Click Next.
The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears, as shown in the following figure. This window shows the
selections you made for simple configuration.
Figure 156 Create Virtual Drive - Summary Window
11. Either click Back to return to the previous window to change any selections, or click Finish to accept and
complete the configuration.
The new virtual drive is created after you click Finish. After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies
you that the virtual drives were created successfully.
NOTE
For best results, do not use drive type mixing.
Services, for more information about the SafeStore feature.
NOTE
If you create a large configuration using drives that are in Power-Save
mode, it could take several minutes to spin up the drives. A progress
bar appears as the drives spin up. If any of the selected unconfigured
drives fail to spin up, a dialog box that identifies these drives appears.
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Chapter 9: Configuration
Creating a New Configuration
LSI MegaRAID
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