Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 217)

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4. Accept the defaults or make changes:
• Enter an alias in the Alias field
Maximum of 32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
• Media Patrol – Uncheck to disable on this array.
• PDM – Uncheck to disable on this array.
• Power Management – Uncheck to disable on this array.
• Choose a media type – Hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD)
Important
All physical drives in an array must be the same media type, i.e. all HDD or
all SDD.
5. In the Select Physical Drives diagram, click the drives to add them to your array. Look for drives with a
green LED dark, a blue LED lit, and no crosshatching over the carrier.
The ID numbers of the chosen drives appear in the field below the diagram.
• When you have finished your settings and choices, click the Submit button.
The new array appears in the list.
If you are done creating disk arrays, click the Finish button.
To create additional disk arrays, click the Create More button.
After you create a disk array, create a logical drive on it. See “Creating a Logical Drive Manually” on page 202.
C
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The Wizard creates disk arrays and logical drives automatically. It has four options.
• Automatic – Creates a new disk array following a default set of parameters. Creates a hot spare drive
for all RAID levels except RAID 0, when five or more unconfigured physical drives are available. You
can accept or reject the proposed arrangement but you cannot modify it. See instructions in “Automatic
Configuration” on page 85 .
• Advanced – Enables you to specify all parameters for a new disk array, logical drives and spare drives.
See instructions in “Advanced Configuration” on page 86 .