HP Integrity rx4640 Server - Manual (Page 44)

Configuring an Array
Figure 6-1: ORCA main menu screen
To create a logical drive:
1. Select Create Logical Drive.
The screen displays a list of all available (unconfigured) physical drives and the
valid RAID options for the system.
2. Use the arrow keys, space bar, and tab key to navigate around the screen and set
up the logical drive, including an online spare drive if one is required.
NOTE: You cannot use ORCA to configure one spare drive to be shared among several
arrays. Only ACU allows you to configure shared spare drives.
While configuring the logical drive, one of the settings allows you to use either 4
GB or 8 GB as the maximum boot drive size. Selecting 8 GB allows a larger boot
partition for operating systems such as Windows NT 4.0 that use cylinders,
heads, and sectors of a physical drive to determine the drive size. The larger boot
drive size also lets you increase the size of the logical drive at some later time.
However, logical drive performance is likely to decrease if the larger boot drive
size is enabled.
3. Press the Enter key to accept the settings.
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