Virtual disk management, Creating virtual disks – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H800 User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID

Virtual Disk Management

Creating Virtual Disks

NOTE:

Combining SAS and SATA hard drives within a virtual disk is not supported.

Also, combining hard drives and SSDs within a virtual disk is not supported.

NOTE:

Perform the following steps to create a virtual disk:

1 During host system bootup, press when the BIOS screen

is displayed.
The

Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed. If there is more than

one controller, the main menu screen is displayed. Select a controller, and

press . The

Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed for the

selected controller.

2 Use the arrow keys to highlight Controller # or Disk Group #.
3 Press

The list of available actions is displayed.

4 Select Create New VD and press .

The

Create New VD screen is displayed. The cursor is on the RAID Levels

option.
When adding a virtual disk to a Disk Group, the

Add VD in Disk Group

screen is displayed. Skip to step 11 to change the basic settings of the

virtual disk.

5 Press to display the possible RAID levels, based on the physical

disks available.

6 Press the down-arrow key to select a RAID level and press .
7 When creating a spanned virtual disk (RAID 10, 50 or 60), enter the

number of physical disks per span in the

PD per Span field and press

NOTE:

Creating a 22 physical disk RAID 10 virtual disk is possible by selecting

RAID 10 and populating the PD per Span field with

8 Press to move the cursor to the list of physical disks.

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