Cisco ENCS 5406-W Quick Start Manual page 13

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Procedure for Creating the Virtual Disk
To create the virtual disk, follow these steps:
Step 1 Log in to the CIMC console.
Step 2 In the CIMC console left pane, click the Storage tab.
Step 3 In the CIMC console middle pane, click the Controller Info tab.
Step 4 In the Action area, click Create Virtual Drive from Unused Physical Drives.\
The Create Virtual Drive from Unused Physical Drives Wait dialog box is displayed.
In the Create Virtual Drive from Unused Physical Drives dialog box, choose the following:
Step 5
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b.
c.
Step 6 Click Create Virtual Drive. Use the boot order shown in
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If disk is in JBOD state:
Navigate to Storage tab > Physical Drive Info tab.
a.
In the Actions area, choose Set State as Unconfigured Good.
b.
Confirm that disk is in Unconfigured Good state.
c.
If disk is in Foreign Config state:
Navigate to Storage tab > Controller Info tab.
a.
In the Actions area, choose Clear Foreign Config.
b.
c. In the Actions area, choose Unconfigured Good.
d. Confirm that disk is in Unconfigured Good state.
At the RAID Level drop-down box, choose 1.
In the Create Drive Groups area:
Select physical drives for your system from the Physical Drives pane and click >> to add these to
the Drive Groups pane.
In the Virtual Drive Properties area:
The Virtual Drive Name field displays the automatically assigned name.
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At the Strip Size drop-down list, select the strip size (default is 64k).
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At the Write Policy drop-down list, select the Write policy (default is Write Through)
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At the Access Policy drop-down list, select the Access policy (default is Read Write).
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• At the Read Policy drop-down list, select the Read policy (default is No Read Ahead).
• At the Cache Policy drop-down list, select the Cache policy (default is Direct IO)
• At the Disk Cache Policy drop-down list, select the Disk Cache policy (default is Unchanged).
• The value for the Size drop-down list automatically filled.
Because the disk will be part of RAID-1, to migrate from no RAID to RAID-1, you must perform
a new image installation.
Configuring the ENCS 5400-W Device
Figure 7.
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