Creating a New Storage Configuration Using The Advanced Configuration Option

Selecting Available Unconfigured Drive

Selecting Logical Drive Settings

The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the logical drive parameters when you create a logical drive. In addition, you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned arrays.Perform the following steps to create an advanced storage configuration.

1.	On the Server dashboard or the Controller dashboard, select Configure > Advanced Configuration.

The Advanced Configuration page is displayed.

2.	Select a RAID level for the array from the drop-down box.

3.	(Optional) click Compare and Select to view the detailed information on each RAID level.

When you use advanced configuration, the RAID controller supports RAID levels 10, 50, and 60. The Compare and Select option provides you a brief description of the RAID level that you select. The RAID levels that you can choose depend on the number of drives available.

4.	Click Next.

5.	Click Add Drives to add drives to the array.

You can add a spare drive to all of the RAID levels except RAID 0. Also, you can create a secured logical drive only when the security capable drives are present. This check box is disabled when there are no secured drives.

6.	(Optional) select the span depth using the slider bar.

7.	Click Add Drives to add drives to the array.

The Available Unconfigured Drive window appears.

Figure 4. Available Unconfigured Drive Window

For information on adding the unconfigured drives to the array, see Selecting Available Unconfigured Drive.

8.	From the available list of unconfigured drives, select the drives and click Add Drives.

9.	Click Add Logical Drives to add logical drives to the array.

The Logical Drive Settings window appears.

For information on configuring logical drives, see Selecting Logical Drive Settings.

10.	Specify all the required details and click Add Logical Drives.

11.	Click Finish.

A message appears conforming that your configuration is complete.