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Asus PIKE 2208 User Manual

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ASUS PIKE 2208

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When you select Manual Configuration and click Next, the Drive Group

Definition screen appears. You use this screen to select drives to create drive

groups.
1. Hold while selecting at least three ready drives in the Drives panel on

the left.

2. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group

configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right.

3. Select a preferred power save mode. The power save mode can be Max,

Max without cache, Auto, None, and Controller defined. If you need to

undo the changes, click Reclaim.

4. Click Accept DG to create a RAID 6 drive group.

An icon for a second drive group displays in the right panel.

5. Click on the icon for the second drive group to select it.
6. Hold while selecting at least three more ready drives in the Drives

panel to create a second drive group.

7. Click Add To Array to move the drives to a proposed drive group

configuration in the Drive Groups panel on the right.

If you need to undo the changes, click Reclaim.

8. Choose whether to use drive encryption. After you finish selecting drives for

the drive groups, select each drive group and click Accept DG for each.

9. Click Next. The Span Definition screen appears. This screen displays the

drive group holes you can select to add to a span.

10. Select one of the available drive groups from the Array With Free Space

drop-down list, and then click Add to SPAN.

11. Select a second drive group from the Array With Free Space drop-down list,

and click Add to SPAN.

Both drive groups display in the right frame under Span.

12. When finish, click Next. The Virtual Drive Definition screen appears. You

use this screen to select the RAID level, strip size, read policy, and other

attributes for the new virtual drive(s).

13. If there are additional drive groups with three or more drives each, you can

add them to the virtual drive.

14. Change the virtual drive options from the defaults listed on the screen as

needed.

Here are brief explanations of the virtual drive options:
RAID Level: The drop-down menu lists the possible RAID levels for the

virtual drive. Select RAID 60.