VT-100 UTILITY CONFIGURATION
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Step
Action
1
Designate hot spares/pass-through (optional).
2
Choose a configuration method.
3
Create raid sets using the available physical drives.
4
Define volume sets using the space in the raid set.
5
Initialize the volume sets (logical drives) and use volume sets in the host
OS.
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.2 Designating Drives as Hot Spares
All unused disk drive that is not part of a raid set can be created as
a Hot Spare. The “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” configuration will au
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tomatically add the spare disk drive with the raid level for user to
select. For the “Raid Set Function” configuration, user can use the
“Create Hot Spare” option to define the hot spare disk drive.
A Hot Spare disk drive can be created when you choose the “Create
Hot Spare” option in the “Raid Set Function”, all unused physical
devices connected to the current controller appear:
Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check control-
ler.
Press the
Enter
key to select a disk drive, and press
Yes
in the
“Create Hot Spare” to designate it as a hot spare.
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.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Con-
figuration
In “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” configuration, it collects all drives
in the tray and include them in a raid set. The raid set you create
is associated with exactly one volume set, and you can modify the
default RAID level, stripe size, and capacity of the volume set. Des-
ignating Drives as Hot Spares will also show in the raid level selec-
tion option. The volume set default settings will be:
Parameter
Setting
Volume Name
Volume Set # 00
IDE Host Channel/IDE Drive Select 0/0-Master
Cache Mode
Write Back
Tag Queuing
Yes
