Vess A2200 Quick Installation Guide
Step 1 - Disk Array Creation
1.
Optional. Enter a name for the disk array in the field provided.
Maximum of 32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
Uncheck the boxes if you want to disable Media Patrol or PDM.
PROMISE recommends leaving these features enabled.
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.
2.
When you are done, click the
Next
button.
Step 2 - Logical Drive Creation
Figure 29: Advanced Configuration (Step 2 Logical Drive Creation)
Optional. Enter an alias for the logical drive in the field provided. Maximum of 32 characters;
letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
Choose a RAID level for the logical drive from the dropdown menu.
The choice of RAID levels depends the number of physical drives you se-lected.
RAID 30 and 50 only - Specify the number of axles for your array.
Specify a Capacity and the unit of measure (B, KB, MB, GB, TB).
This value will be the data capacity of the first logical drive in your new disk array. If you specify
less than disk array¡¦s maximum capacity, the remaining capacity is available for additional
logical drives that you can create now or later.
3.
For the following items, accept the default or choose a new value from the dropdown menu:
Stripe size. 64 KB is the default.
64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are available.
Sector size. 512 B is the default.
512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, and 4 KB are available.
Read (cache) Policy. Read Ahead is the default.
Read Cache, Read Ahead, and No Cache are available.
Write (cache) Policy. Write Back is the default.
Write Back and Write Through (Thru) are available.
4.
Click the Update button.
A new logical drive is displayed under New Logical Drives. If there is free capacity re-maining,
you can specify another logical drive now or wait until later.
5.
When you are done specifying logical drives, click the
Next
button.
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