Selecting Logical Drive Settings

The Logical Drive Settings window enables you to configure the logical drives. Detailed descriptions for all of the parameters are present in the Logical Drive Settings window.

The logical drive settings differ or might not be supported for some controllers. For more information, see HPE MR Storage Administrator Feature Support Matrix.

Perform the following steps to configure a logical drive:

1.	Specify the number of logical drives you want to create.

2.	Specify the size of the logical drives you want to create.

Each logical drive has the same capacity. If you specify the capacity first and then the number of logical drives, the logical drive capacity is adjusted with the available capacity.

3.	Specify a name for the logical drive in the Logical Drive Name field.

The logical drive name can have a maximum of 15 characters.

4.	Select a strip size from the Strip Size drop-down list.

Strip sizes of 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are supported.

5.	Specify the initialization state. The options follow:

Fast Initialization

Full Initialization

No Initialization

6.	Specify the read policy for the logical drive. The options follow:

No Read Ahead

Always Read Ahead

7.	Specify the write policy for the logical drive. The options follow:

Write Through

Write Back

Always Write Back

8.	Specify the I/O policy for the logical drive. The options follow:

Cached IO

Direct IO

9.	Specify a disk cache setting for the logical drive. The options follow:

Unchanged

Disabled

Enabled

10.	Click Add Logical Drives.

The newly created logical drive appears in the Advanced Configuration window just below the Logical Drives section.

NOTE  You will lose some drive capacity if you choose drives with uneven and large capacity while creating a logical drive.

If you want to modify the logical drive settings before finishing the configuration, click the icon.

The Logical Drive Settings window opens.

You can modify the settings and click Modify Logical Drive.