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6.5 Create the Logical Drive
To complete the process of configuring your storage solution, you will need to create one or more logical
drives. During creation you will assign a LUN to the logical drive, this presents the logical drive to the host
operating system. Up to 512 logical drives are supported.
A logical drive is defined or created from regions of an array, a whole array, or a combination of regions
of different array(s) that can be made available as a single disk to one or more host systems. If you are
creating a logical drive greater than 2 TB, please refer to your operating and file system documentation
to verify it supports such sizes.
You may wish to avoid choosing combinations of a region from one array and from another array to create
your logical drive. This will reduce data fragmentation.
1 From the Main screen click on the Create Logical icon in the Tool Bar.
2 Select the region or regions you wish to use for your logical drive from the list “Select Which Array(s) to
use” window. You may hold the <Shift> or <Ctrl> key down to make multiple selections.
3 Enter a name for your logical drive, you may use up to 32 characters. The default names for logical drives
follow the format “LD
x .” Only 12 characters plus an ellipse is displayed when the name is longer. Holding
the mouse pointer over the logical drive name on the Main screen will show the complete name in a
popup.
Figure 6–17 Main Screen (RS-4835-F4-5404E Shown)