Viewing and configuring the virtual drives

Use the information in this topic to view and configure the virtual drives.

When you select RAID Setup under Server Configuration, the Array Configuration tab will be chosen and the existing virtual disks will be displayed by default. The logical drives are sorted by disk arrays and controllers. Detailed information about the virtual disk, such as the virtual disk strip size and bootable information is displayed.

To configure the RAID settings, click Enable Edit mode.

In edit mode, you can click the controller action menu, view the current RAID virtual disks and create new RAID virtual disks.

From the Controller Actions menu, you can perform the following actions:

Clear RAID configuration

Clears all the configuration and data on the selected controller.

Manage foreign configuration

Import any foreign drives that were detected. A foreign drive is a drive that was moved from a different RAID configuration to the current RAID controller

Note

You will be notified if no foreign drives are detected.

If you click the virtual disk name, a virtual disk properties window will appear.

1. Select drives or a disk array which has free storage capacity
   1. When creating a virtual disk in a new disk array, you need to specify the RAID level. If there are not enough drives to select, and you click Next, an error message will appear under the RAID level field.

      For some RAID levels, span is required . There is also a minimum amount of drives that need to be present in the span.

      1. For these types of situations, the web interface will display Span 1 by default.
      2. Select the drives and click Add member to add the drives to Span 1. When Span 1 does not have enough drives, disable the Add Span link.
      3. Click Add Span to add Span 2. Select the drives and click Add member to add to Span 2.
      4. Click Add member to add drives to the last span. If you want to add drives to Span 1 again, you need to click Span 1 and select the drives to add to Span 1.
      5. If the number of spans reaches the maximum amount, disable Add span.

   2. To create virtual disks in an existing disk array, you need to select a disk array that has free capacity.

2. Creating a virtual disk
   1. By default, create a virtual disk that uses all the storage capacity. The Add icon is disabled when all of the storage is used. You can click the pencil icon to change the capacity or other properties.
   2. When you edit the first virtual disk to use only some of the storage capacity, the Add icon will be enabled. Click the icon to show the Add Virtual Disk window.
   3. If there is more than one virtual disk, the Remove icon will be enabled. This icon will not be shown if there is only one virtual disk. When you click the Remove icon, the selected row will be immediately deleted. There will be no confirmation window as the virtual disk has not been created yet.
   4. Click Start Creating Virtual Disk to start the process.