Avago Technologies MegaRAID Fast Path Software User Manual

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LSI Corporation Confidential

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July 2011

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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide

Chapter 8: Configuration

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Creating a New Storage Configuration

d. Click Create Span to create a second span in the drive group.

e. Select unconfigured drives from the list of drives and click Add> to add them to

the second drive group.

The selected drives appear under Span 1 below Drive Group 0, as shown in

Figure 214

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Figure 214: Span 0 and Span 1 of Drive Group 0

f.

Click Create Drive Group to make a drive group with the spans.

g. Click Next to complete this step.

The Create Virtual Drive - Virtual drive settings window appears, as shown in the
following figure. The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear.
The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed
out until you create the virtual drive.

NOTE: The parameters in the Create Virtual Drive – Virtual drive settings window
display in Disabled mode (grayed out) for SAS-Integrated RAID (IR) controllers because
these parameters do not apply to SAS-IR controllers.

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