Express Wizard Only - Review Summary; Advanced Wizard Only - Select Physical Disks - Dell USC User Manual

Express Wizard Only - Review Summary

Review the virtual disk attributes you selected before creating a virtual disk.
CAUTION:
any foreign configurations that you specified should be kept. All data residing on
the deleted virtual disks will be lost.
Click Finish to create a virtual disk with the displayed attributes.
OR
To return to a previous screen to review or change selections, click Back.
To exit the Wizard without making changes, click Cancel. For more control
over the virtual disk attributes, click Cancel and use the Advanced Wizard to
create the virtual disk.c

Advanced Wizard Only - Select Physical Disks

Use the Select Physical Disks screen to select the physical disks to be used for
the virtual disk. The number of physical disks required for the virtual disk
varies depending on the RAID level. The minimum and maximum numbers
of physical disks required for the RAID level are displayed on the screen.
• Select the protocol for the disk pool from the Protocol drop-down menu:
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA). SAS drives are used
for high performance, and SATA drives provide a more cost-effective
solution. A disk pool is a logical grouping of physical disks on which one or
more virtual disks can be created. The protocol is the type of technology
used to implement RAID.
• Select the media type for the disk pool from the Media Type drop-down
menu: Hard Disk Drives (HDD) or Solid State Disks (SSD). HDDs use
traditional rotational magnetic media for data storage, and SSDs
implement flash memory for data storage.
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Clicking the Finish button deletes all existing virtual disks except for