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Step 3: Creating RAID Pools
Chapter 4 Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage Appliance and IP SAN 39
5
Select the disk drives you want to use in the pool. (Adaptec Storage Manager
prompts you to select the correct number of disk drives.)
Note
Adaptec recommends that you not combine SAS and SATA disk drives
within the same pool. Adaptec Storage Manager generates a warning if you try to
create a pool using a combination of SAS and SATA disk drives.
By default, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically sets the size of the pool and
maximizes the capacity of the disk drives you select.
6
(Optional) Create a global hot spare by control-clicking on an available disk drive;
alternatively, click the
Create Global Hot Spare
button, then select an available
disk drive.
A plus sign (+) appears to indicate that the selected drive will be designated as a
hot spare, as shown in the previous figure. To remove a hot-spare designation
from a disk drive, control-click it again.
7
(Optional) Click
Advanced Settings
and customize the settings as required.
8
If you have no other available disk drives, skip to Step 10.
If you have available disk drives and want to create additional pools, click
Add
pool
to open a new tab in the wizard.
9
Repeat Steps 2 to 8 for each pool that you want to create.
10
Click
Next
, review the pool settings, click
Apply
, then click
Yes
to create the pools.
Adaptec Storage Manager creates the pool(s). You can use the pool immediately to
provision storage, without waiting for the build/verify process to complete. For
more information about pools, see “Creating and Modifying Pools” on page 88.
Caution
Don’t remove and reinsert any drive included in the pool while the pool
is building.
The wizard continues to the Provision Storage step.
Hot Spare
Button