Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

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Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares

Understanding Logical Drives ...................................................... 74
Creating Logical Drives ................................................................. 75

Setting the Size of a Logical Drive.......................................... 75
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive..... 76
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Space.................... 77

Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................ 78

Changing the Write Cache Setting......................................... 79
Changing the Stripe Size......................................................... 79
Changing the Read Cache Setting .......................................... 80
Changing the Initialize Method ............................................. 80
Changing the Initialize Priority.............................................. 81

Verifying Logical Drives ................................................................ 81

Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive ..................................... 82
Verifying a Logical Drive (Without Fix) ............................... 83
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check ........... 84

Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive ................................... 84

Extending a Partition on a Logical Drive .............................. 87

Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive ............................... 87
Deleting a Logical Drive ................................................................ 89
Working with Hot Spares.............................................................. 90

Hot Spare Limitations ............................................................ 90
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare? .......................................... 90
Designating a Global Hot Spare............................................. 91
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare........................................... 92
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean? .................................... 93
Removing a Hot Spare............................................................ 93

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Protecting Your Data

Creating a Snapshot....................................................................... 96

Snapshot Limitations.............................................................. 96
Creating a Snapshot with Backup .......................................... 97
Creating a Snapshot Without Backup ................................... 97
Deleting a Snapshot ................................................................ 97

Enabling Copyback........................................................................ 98

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