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Figure 15 Virtual Drive Definition
This option enables a shared VD that both controller nodes can access. If you uncheck this box, the VD
has a status of exclusive, and host access exists only for the controller node that created this VD.
11. On this same page, click Accept, then click Next.
12. On the next page, click Next.
13. Click Yes to accept the configuration.
14. Repeat the previous steps to create the other VDs.
As the VDs are configured on the first controller node, the other controller node's drive listing is updated
to reflect the use of the drives.
15. When prompted, click Yes to save the configuration, and click Yes to confirm that you want to
initialize it.
16. Define hot spare disks for the VDs to maximize the level of data protection.
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NOTE: The Intel RAID High Availability Storage solution supports global hot spares and dedicated
hot spares. Global hot spares are global for the cluster, not for a controller.
17. When all VDs are configured, reboot both systems as a cluster.
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