Creating And Managing Jbods; Creating A New Jbod; Managing Existing Jbods; Converting A Jbod Into A Simple Volume - Adaptec ASR-6805Q User Manual

To create and delete global hot spares:
1. Select Global Hotspares from the Logical Device Configuration menu.
The Global Hotspare Management window opens.
2. Using the arrow keys, select a drive from the list. Existing hot spares are highlighted.
3. Press to create a new global hot spare. Press
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Creating and Managing JBODs

Note: This option is available on Adaptec Series 6 controllers only.
Follow the on-screen instructions to create and manage JBODs.

Creating a New JBOD

A JBOD disk appears as a physical disk drive to the operating system. A JBOD disk is not redundant and
not bootable.
To begin creating a JBOD, select Create JBOD from the Logical Device Configuration menu. All the
supported disk drives are displayed. Select a disk drive and

Managing Existing JBODs

To delete a JBOD or morph a JBOD into a simple volume, select Manage JBODs from the Logical Device
Configuration menu.
From the Manage JBODs menu, you can:
• Morph a JBOD into a simple volume.
• Delete a JBOD
Note: When you delete a JBOD, you lose all data on that disk.

Converting a JBOD Into a Simple Volume

You can convert any JBOD into a simple volume.
1. Select Manage JBODs from the main Logical Device Configuration menu.
2. Select the JBOD that you want to morph into a simple volume and press

Managing the maxCache Pool

Note: This option is available on Adaptec Series 6Q controllers only.
Adaptec maxCache uses the compatible Solid State Drives (SSDs) in your system as fast cache memory
for read-intensive operations. Before you can enable maxCache read caching on a logical device (see
Modifying Cache Settings on page 84), you must assign at least one SSD to the maxCache pool.
Note: You can configure the maxCache pool only if you have one or more compatible
Solid State Drives installed on the RAID controllers in your system. For a list of
maxCache-compatible SSDs, refer to the Adaptec Web site at
www.adaptec.com/compatibility.
To add a SSD to the maxCache pool or to remove a SSD from the pool:
1. Select Manage MaxCache Pool from the Logical Device Configuration menu.
All supported SSDs are displayed.
Note: Uninitialized SSDs may not appear in the list; see
page 85 for more information.
2. Using the arrow keys, select a SSD from the list.
3. Press to add the SSD to the maxCache pool.
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