User Guide
ASUS PIKE II 3108 Series
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2.2.9 Creating a Storage Configuration
You can congure RAID drive groups and virtual drives to create storage
congurations on systems with LSI SAS controllers.
To create a storage conguration:
1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to the controller and press the <F2> key.
2. Press <Enter>. The Create New VD screen appears.
You can use the Create New VD dialog to create virtual drives for Uncongured
Good drives. To create virtual drives for existing drive groups, navigate to a
drive group and press the <F2> key to view the Add VD in Drive Group dialog.
The elds in the Add VD in Drive Group dialog are the same as in the Create
New VD dialog.
3. Select a RAID level for the drive group from the RAID Level eld.
4. All the available uncongured good drives appear in the Drives box. Select
the physical drives that you prefer.
5. You can enter a size less than the maximum size of the drive group, if you
want to create other virtual drives on the same drive group. The maximum
size of the drive group appears in the Size eld. Before entering a size,
ensure that you have deleted the previous default value by using the
<Backspace> key.
6. Enter a name for the virtual drive in the Name eld. The name given to the
virtual drive cannot exceed 15 characters.
7. Press OK.
Press Advanced to set additional properties. For more information, see the
Selecting Additional Virtual Drive Properties section.