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VTrak S3000 Quick Start Guide
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2.
Check the boxes to enable Media Patrol, PDM, or Power Management.
3.
Choose the Physical Drives Type from the dropdown menu.
•
HDD
– Hard Disk Drives
•
SSD
– Solid State Drive
You cannot mix HDDs and SSDs in the same array.
4.
Highlight physical drives you want in the disk array from the Available list and
press the
>>
button to move them to the Selected list.
You can also double-click them to move them.
For the recommended number of drives, see page 51, Figure 18.
5.
When you are done, click the
Next
button.
Step 2 – Logical Drive Creation
1.
Enter an alias for the logical drive in the field provided.
For recommended aliases, see page 51, Figure 18.
2.
From the RAID Level dropdown menu,
•
For all logical drives choose
RAID 5
•
RAID levels are based on the number of physical drives chosen for each
disk array. See page 51, Figure 18.
3.
Leave the logical drive size at the default
maximum
value.
4.
For the following items, accept the default values in the dropdown menu:
•
Stripe size –
64 KB
is the default.
•
Sector size –
512 B
is the default.
•
Read (cache) Policy –
Read Ahead
is the default.
•
Write (cache) Policy –
Write Back
is the default.
•
Preferred Controller ID –
Automatic
is the default.
5.
Click the
Update
button.
A new logical drive is displayed under New Logical Drives.
6.
Click the
Next
button.
Step 3 – Summary
The Summary lists the disk array and logical drive information you specified.
To proceed with disk array and logical drive creation, click the
Submit
button.
Note
If you have more physical drives than the eight (8) that come with
the system, you can use them to create additional disk arrays and
logical drives.