Rives; Disk Array And Logical Drive - Promise Technology Vess A7000 Series Product Manual

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Disk arrays and logical drives are created and managed using the Disk Arrays menu. Use the Array
Configuration menu to view the Disk Array List, and to create and delete disk arrays on the enclosure. Expand
the Disk Arrays icon in Tree View to view menu links for existing arrays. Each array icon can be expanded again
to see the Logical Drives icon, and this can be expanded to see each logical drive icon.
For a detailed description of how to create disk arrays and logical drives using Promise Management GUI,
please refer to the Quick Start Guide.
Use the top-level Disk Arrays menu to view the Disk Array List, to delete existing arrays, and to create new
disk arrays using the Automatic, Express, or Advanced disk array creation menus. Note that there must be
physical drives available in order to use any of the disk array creation menus.
View information for existing disk arrays by clicking on the icon in Tree View or the array name in the Disk Array
List. Each individual array menu is used to create and delete logical drives, to change settings (Alias and start/
stop PDM, Media Patrol and Power Management) for the array, or to start Background Activities including PDM,
Rebuild and Transition.
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