Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 284)

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3. Click on the Create button, the Create Disk Pool menu displays.
4. The Create Disk Pool menu displays a virtual front of the Vess R2000 enclosure. Hard disk drives that are
unavailable for use appear colored in light blue shading (see example above). Hard disk drives that are
available for the Disk Pool appear with the power LED lighted on and without any shading (HDDs 13 - 16
in the above example).
5. Choose the hard drives to use for the Disk Pool being created and click the Next button. A new menu
appears. Note that selected hard disk drives appear purple color after selection.
6. In the new menu, enter a name for the Disk Pool and select a RAID Level from the pull-down menu.
The RAID level options available depend on the number of hard disks in the Disk Pool.
7. Click on the Apply button to create the new Disk Pool. The newly created Disk Pool appears listed in
the main Disk Pool menu. The amount of time needed for initialization of the Disk Pool depends on its
capacity.
Create Disk Pool main menu (Choose drives for Disk Pool)