APC RAID Subsystem SCSI-SATA II - Manual (Page 26)

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E.g., user chooses RAID 5 and the controller has 12*200G HDD + 4*80HDD
inserted. Then if using all 16 HDD for a RAID 5, then the volume max size is
1200G (80G*15). But in IS16GL, we do smarter check and find out the most
efficient use of HDDs, which results controller only use the 200G HDD (Volume
size is 200*11=2200G). Then, the volume size is bigger, and full use of HDD
capacity.
Step 1: Select “Quick install” then choose the RAID level to set. Please refer to
Figure 3.3.1. After choosing the RAID level, click “
”, which
links to another page, user can set up “LUN” here.
Figure 3.3.1
Step 2: Please select a LUN number. Access control of host would show as a
wildcard “*”, which means every host can access this volume. In this page, the
“Volume size” can be changed. The maximum volume size is shown. To re-enter
the size be sure it has to be less or equal to maximum volume size. Then click
“
”.
Step 3: Confirm page. Click “ ” if all setups are correct. Then
a page with the “User data volume” just been created will be shown as Figure
3.3.2.
Done. You can start to use the system now.