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of all RAID levels as well as Capacity, Availability, and Performance (CAP) strategies and other useful configuration
information.
5.4.1 Multiple Configuration Tool Locking
Spheras Storage Director provides a Multiple Configuration Tool Lock feature that enables write access to be locked on
a controller system. The configuration locking occurs when a configuration is being performed by another configuration
tool. The following message is displayed “Another configuration session is in progress. You must terminate it to
continue. Terminate the other configuration session?”
If this message is displayed, click Ye s to cancel the other configuration session. Doing this allows your configuration to
complete.
To cancel the configuration you just started, click No. Doing this allows the other configuration to complete.
If Spheras Storage Director is unable to terminate the other configuration session, the following message is displayed,
“Another Configuration session is in progress. Please try again after it has completed.”
5.4.2 Assisted Storage Configuration
This feature is only enabled if there are unused physical drives available. When using the ‘Assisted Configuration
Wizard’, there may be situations where not all of the available physical drives are used when creating a configuration.
For example, if you have 19 physical drives available, two arrays of nine drives are created leaving one physical drive
unused. The unused physical drive may be used as a hot spare or left un-configured for later use.
Open the Configure Unused Storage With Assistance Wizard by clicking Controller-> Configure Storage-> With
Assistance... on the menu bar or the icon as shown in Figure 57 Configure Storage With Assistance on page 87.
Figure 57 Configure Storage With Assistance
The Fault Tolerance dialog box opens.