6
Modifying Your Direct Attached
Storage
In this chapter...
Understanding Logical Drives ............................................................................................... 59
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives ................................................................................ 60
Fine-tuning Logical Drives .................................................................................................... 63
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance ................................................................................ 66
Verifying Logical Drives ......................................................................................................... 67
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive............................................................................ 69
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive........................................................................ 70
Deleting a Logical Drive......................................................................................................... 71
Creating a RAID Volume ....................................................................................................... 71
Creating a JBOD Disk ............................................................................................................ 73
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space ................................................................... 75
Configuring the MaxIQ Cache .............................................................................................. 78
This chapter explains how to create and modify logical drives, optimize logical drive
performance, and use Adaptec Storage Manager’s power management features to maintain an
energy-efficient storage space.
