Creating A Virtual Disk Manually - HP 2000fc Reference Manual

Creating a Virtual Disk Manually

To create a virtual disk manually:
1. Select Manage > Virtual Disk Config > Create A Vdisk.
2. Select Manual Virtual Disk Creation.
3. Type a name for the virtual disk.
The name is case sensitive and can include 17 characters, but not comma, quotation
mark ("), or backslash.
4. Set Virtual Disk RAID Level to one of the following options:
RAID 0 - Disk Striping
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RAID 1 - Disk Mirroring, 2 Disks only
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RAID 3 - Parity RAID, 1 Parity Disk
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RAID 5 - Parity RAID, Parity Distributed
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RAID 6 - Double-parity RAID, Parity Distributed
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Non-RAID
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RAID 10 - Data Striped Over Mirrors
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RAID 50 - Data Striped Across RAID 5
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5. (Optional) As an Advanced user, you can set the initialization type:
a. Click Advanced Virtual Disk Creation Options.
b. Set Initialization Type to one of the following options:
Online – Enables you to use the virtual disk immediately after creating it while
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it is initializing. Because Online uses the verify method to create the virtual
disk, it takes longer to complete initializing than Offline. This option is the
default.
Offline – You must wait for the virtual disk initialization process to finish
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before using the virtual disk; however, Offline takes less time to complete
initializing than Online. At the time of creation, a virtual disk using Offline
initialization can have either one volume or none. If you want the virtual disk
to have more than one volume, create the virtual disk with no volumes and
then add volumes after initialization is complete.
6. Click Create New Virtual Disk.
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