Setting The Size Of Volumes Created With Auto-Carving; Enabling And Setting Up Staggered Spin-Up - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Setting the Size of Volumes Created with
Auto-Carving

Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up

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Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving

You can use auto-carving to divide units larger than 1 TB into multiple
volumes. You control the size of the volumes to be created by setting the carve
size (referred to as carving factor in 3BM). The carve size can be between
1 TB (1024 GB) and 32 TB (32768 GB); the default is 2 TB.
When you change this policy, it applies to units you create in the future.
Existing units will not be affected.
To set the carve size in 3DM
1 Choose
Management > Controller Settings
2 In the Other Controller Settings section at the bottom of the screen, in the
Carve Size field, enter the size you want (between 1024 GB and
32768 GB) to use and click
The page refreshes, and a message at the top confirms the change you
have made.
To set the carve size (carving factor) in 3BM
1 On the main 3BM screen,
2 On the pop-up menu, select
3 On the Policy Settings page,
to display the text entry box, enter the size you want (between 1024 GB
and 32768 GB) and press
4 to and press
Tab OK
The policy is enabled immediately.
You can set the number of SAS (9690SA only) and SATA drives that will spin
up at the same time and the delay time between drive group spinups. This
does not apply to SAS or SATA drives that are attached to an expander.
Three policy settings let you set the number of drives that will spin up at the
same time and set the delay between drive groups that spin up at one time.
Not all SATA drives support staggered spinup. If you enable staggered spinup
and have drives that do not support it, the setting will be ignored. You can
change these settings in 3BM or using the CLI.
.
Submit
to and press
Tab Settings
Controller Policies
to the
Tab Carving Factor
again to accept it.
Enter
to select it.
Enter
from the menu bar in 3DM.
.
Enter
and press .
Enter
field, press
Enter
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