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Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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Manage with CLU

Step 2 – Logical Drive Creation

1. If you want to specify an alias to the logical drive, highlight

Alias

and type a name.

Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and underscore.

2. Highlight

RAID Level

and press the spacebar to toggle though a list of available RAID levels.

3. If you want to create multiple logical drives, highlight

Capacity

, press the backspace key to remove the

current value, then type a new smaller value.

4. RAID 30, 50 and 60 only. Highlight N

umber of Axles

and press the spacebar to choose the number of

axles.

See "

RAID 60 Axles

" and "

RAID 50 Axles

".

5. For the following items, accept the default value or highlight and press the spacebar to choose a new

value:

• Highlight

Stripe

and press the spacebar to toggle through stripe

sizes and choose 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1 MB.

• Highlight

Sector

and press the spacebar to toggle through

sector sizes and choose 512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, or 4 KB.

• Highlight

W

rite Policy

and press the spacebar to toggle write cache

policy between

WriteBack

and

WriteThru

(write though).

• Highlight

R

ead Policy

and press the spacebar to toggle read cache

policy though

ReadCache

,

ReadAhead

, and

NoCache

.

• Highlight

P

referred Controller ID

and press the spacebar

to toggle among

1

,

2

, or

Automatic

.

• Highlight PerfectRebuild and press the spacebar to toggle Enable or disable.

6. Highlight

Save Logical Drive

and press

Enter

.