Asus DS300f, User Manual

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Chapter 4: Management with ASUS Storage Management
Making Disk Array Settings
To make Disk Array settings:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
4. Click the Settings tab in Management View.
5. Optional. Enter an alias in the Disk Array Alias field.
Maximum of 31 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words,
and underscore. An alias is optional.
6. To enable Media Patrol support, check the Media Patrol box.
7. To enable PDM support, check the PDM box.
8. Click the Submit button.
Creating a Logical Drive
When you create a disk array, you automatically create one logical drive also. If
the initial logical drive used less than the full capacity of the disk array, you can
create additional logical drives from the same disk array.
To create a logical drive:
1. Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.
2. Click the Disk Arrays icon.
3. Click the Disk Array icon.
4. Click the Create LD tab in Management View.
5. iSCSI only. If you plan to use this logical drive for NAS, click the NAS option
beside LD Type.
6. Do one of the following actions:
•
For DAS and SAN, enter an Alias (name) for the logical drive.
An Alias is optional. Use letters, numbers, space between words, and
underscore. An Alias is optional.
•
iSCSI only. For NAS, enter a Mount Point (name) for the logical drive.
Maximum of 20 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between
words, and underscore. A Mount Point is
required .
7. From the RAID Level dropdown list, choose a RAID level for this logical
drive.
All RAID levels supported by the disk array appear in the list. See
―Choosing
a RAID Le
vel‖ on page 332.