Dell 3 User Manual

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Dell Manager

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Logical Drive

Choose Objects—> Logical Drive to select a logical drive and to perform
the actions described in Table 12-4.

Logical Drive Settings

Table 12-5 displays the default logical drive settings. You can change the
write policy, read policy, and cache policy after configuration is complete.

View/Update

Parameters

Select this option to display the firmware version number and

the cache memory size. You can also change the rebuild rate

for the adapter through this option.

Adapter Type

The model of adapter that is being used.

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Option

Description

Initialize

Select this option to initialize the selected logical drive. This

should be done for every logical drive you configure.

Check

Consistency

Select this option to verify the correctness of the redundancy

data in the selected logical drive. This option is available only if

RAID level 1 or 5 is used. PERC 3 automatically corrects any

differences found in the data.

View/Update

Parameters

Select this option to display the properties of the selected logical

drive. You can modify the cache write policy, the cache read

policy, virtual sizing and the I/O policy from this menu.
Virtual Sizing: Set this option to Enabled before adding a

physical drive to a logical drive. After you have created a logical

drive set, the partition of the drive should be as large as the

virtual size of the logical drive.

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Parameter

Setting

Stripe Size

64 KB

Write Policy

Write-back

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Option

Description

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