Figure 39. Create Storage Pool Dialog Box - Intel MFSYS25 User Manual

To assign one or more drives to a storage pool, select the action menu item "Create
Storage Pool". The following dialog box appears.

Figure 39. Create Storage Pool Dialog Box

Select available drives for a storage pool. Hard drives that are either included in an
existing storage pool or are configured as a hot spare drive are not selectable on this
screen. Unavailable drives will be displayed as darker than the available hard drives and
will not have the drive size displayed on the image. Selected drives are highlighted in
green with the drive size displayed on the individual drive similar to the following image.
The RAID level options are determined based on the number of hard drives selected for
the storage pool. For example, selecting four drives will show RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 and
10. RAID levels that are not available will be displayed as light gray text. It is important
to note that RAID level is not assigned to a storage pool. It is, however, assigned to the
virtual drives within a storage pool. This enables a single storage pool to support many
virtual drives with different RAID levels. After selecting the drives for the storage pool,
enter a name or label for this storage pool and click Create to continue.
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