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Creating a New Storage Configuration 8-9
the drives. A progress bar appears as the drives spin up.
If any of the selected unconfigured drives fail to spin up, a
box appears to identify the drive or drives.
After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies you that the
virtual drives were created successfully.
8.1.3 Creating a Virtual Drive Using Advanced Configuration
The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a
new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater
flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and
the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive. In addition,
you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned
drive groups.
Follow these steps to create a new storage configuration in the advanced
configuration mode. This example shows the configuration of a spanned
drive group.
Perform either of the following steps:
– Right click on the controller node in the device tree in the left
frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select
Create Virtual Drive
– Select the controller node and select Operations->Create Virtual
Drive in the menu bar, as shown in Figure 8.5