Creating Shared Vds With Rwc2 - Intel RAID High Availability Storage User Manual

Creating Shared VDs with RWC2

Follow these steps to create VDs for data storage with RWC2. When you create the VDs, you assign the
Share Virtual Drive property to them so they are visible from both controller nodes. This example
assumes you are creating a RAID 5 redundant VD. Modify the instructions as needed for other RAID
levels.
NOTE: Not all versions of RWC2 support Intel® RAID High Availability Storage. Check the release
notes to determine if your version of RWC2 supports Intel® RAID High Availability Storage. Also, see
Section - Verifying Intel® RAID High Availability Storage Support in Tools and the OS Driver.
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1. In the left panel of the RWC2 Logical pane, right-click the Intel RAID High Availability Storage
controller and select Create Virtual Drive from the pop-up menu.
The Create Virtual Drive wizard appears.
2. Select the Advanced option and click Next.
3. In the next wizard screen, select RAID 5 as the RAID level, and select unconfigured drives for the VD,
as shown in the following figure.
Figure 24 Drive Group Settings
4. Click Add to add the VD to the drive group.
The selected drives appear in the Drive groups window on the right.
5. Click Create Drive Group. Then click Next to continue to the next window.
The Virtual Drive Settings window appears.
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