Creating Logical Drives; Setting The Size Of A Logical Drive - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

Creating Logical Drives

For basic instructions for creating logical drives, see
This section describes three additional scenarios for creating logical drives:
Setting the size of a new logical drive (see the following section)
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Including different-sized disk drives in a logical drive (see
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Creating a logical drive using available segments of disk drives (see
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Setting the Size of a Logical Drive

As described in
new logical drive to maximize the capacity of the disk drives that it comprises. However, you
can choose to set the size for a new logical drive. You may want to do this to maximize your
available disk drive space, or allocate available space to more than one logical drive.
To set the size of a logical drive:
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Complete Steps
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Click Advanced Settings.
The maximum size of the logical drive appears in the Size (GB) box.
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Enter the new size for the logical drive. The size you enter must be less than or equal to the
maximum size.
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Click Next.
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Review the logical drive settings, click Apply, then click Yes.
Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive. The configuration is saved in the
Adaptec controller and in the physical drives.
If the disk drives you used to create this logical drive have available space left over, you can
use them to create a new logical drive (see
(see page 78).
Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
Step 6 on page 50, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically sets the size of a
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Building Your Storage Space on page
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