Logical volumes can be assigned to different controllers (primary or
secondary). Default is primary.
Note that if a logical volume is manually assigned to a specific
controller, all its members' assignment will also be shifted to that
controller.
As all the member logical drives are selected, press [ESC] to
continue.
logical volume.
Press [ENTER] and the information of the created logical volume
displays.
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Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical
Volume
The process of partitioning a logical drive is the same as that of
partitioning a logical volume. We take the partitioning of a logical
volume for an example in the proceeding discussion.
Please note that partitioning can be very useful when dealing with a
very large capacity but partitioning a logical drive or logical volume
is not a must for RAID configuration.
Terminal Operation
The confirm box displays.
LV:
Logical Volume ID
P0:
Logical Volume 0 managed by the primary controller
S0:
Logical Volume 0 managed by the secondary
controller
ID:
Unique ID for the logical volume, randomly
generated by the controller
Size:
Capacity of this volume
#LD:
Number of the included members
Choose Yes to create the
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