Creating pools and hot-spares
Complete the following steps to create a pool and assign hot-spares:
- In the Physical devices view, click the drives you want the
pool to include. To view available segments
on each disk drive, switch to the full-size capacity
view or relative-size capacity view.
Notes:
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A segment shaded in light blue is not part of any pool.
- If you choose a combination of both SAS and SATA disk drives, Adaptec Storage Manager reports a warning in the event viewer.
Mixing drive types is supported but not recommended.
- To select a hot-spare for the pool, click
in the Physical devices view; then, click a Ready drive.
Tip: To select or deselect a hot-spare with the keyboard, control-click the drive.
- In the Name field, enter a name for the pool.
- If you do not want to use the maximum size for the pool,
click Advanced settings; then, type the size in the
Size (MB) field:
- To configure the pool for optimal performance, adjust the advanced
settings as needed.
Note: The default
settings usually are adequate for most applications.
- If your drives have free space available and you want to create additional pools,
click
;
then, select the RAID level and repeat steps 1-5. To remove a pool, click the pool tab; then click
.
- When you are ready to continue, click Next. The "Configuration
summary" window opens.
To return to the "Define RAID level" window, click Back. To exit the Configuration wizard, click Cancel.
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