Enclosure tree object Creating pools and hot-spares

Complete the following steps to create a pool and assign hot-spares:

  1. 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:
  2. 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.

  3. In the Name field, enter a name for the pool.

  4. 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:
  5. To configure the pool for optimal performance, adjust the advanced settings as needed.

    Note: The default settings usually are adequate for most applications.
  6. 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 .

  7. 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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