Dell POWERVAULT MD3600F User Manual

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Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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3 Type the name of the disk group (up to 30 characters) in Disk group name.
4 Select the appropriate Physical Disk selection choices, you can select:

Automatic, see step 6

Manual, see step 9

5 Click Next.
6 For Automatic configuration, the RAID Level and Capacity window

is displayed.

7 Select the appropriate RAID level in Select RAID level. You can select

RAID levels 0, 1/10, 6, and 5.
Depending on your RAID level selection, the physical disks available for

the selected RAID level is displayed in

Select capacity table.

8 In the Select Capacity table, select the relevant disk group capacity, and

click

Finish.

9 For Manual configuration, the Manual Physical Disk Selection window

is displayed.

10 Select the appropriate RAID level in Select RAID level. You can select

RAID levels 0, 1/10, 6, and 5.
Depending on your RAID level selection, the physical disks available for

the selected RAID level is displayed in

Unselected physical disks table.

11 In the Unselected physical disks table, select the appropriate physical

disks and click

Add.

NOTE:

You can select multiple physical disks at the same time by holding

<Ctrl> or <Shift> and selecting additional physical disks.

12 To view the capacity of the new disk group, click Calculate Capacity.
13 Click Finish.

A message prompts you that the disk group is successfully created and that

you must create at least one virtual disk before you can use the capacity of

the new disk group. For more information on creating virtual disks, see

"Creating Virtual Disks" on page 104.

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