Deployment Guide

Table 7. Assigning virtual adapters to virtual slots

Virtual adapter Server slot

Virtual Adapter 1 Slot 1

Virtual Adapter 2 Slot 2

Virtual Adapter 3 Slot 3

Virtual Adapter 4 Slot 4

4. Under Assignment Mode: Virtual Disks to Virtual Adapters section, select Multiple Assignment.

This mode allows a virtual disk to be assigned to multiple virtual adapters at a time.

5. Click Apply.

Creating virtual disks

RAID 10 provides redundancy, better performance, and is the best option for I/O intensive workloads.

Microsoft recommends the usage of 64K block size for disks, VHD/VHDx files, and CSVs.

Perform the following steps to create a virtual disk:

1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Virtual Disks → Create.

2. On the Create Virtual Disk page, under the Settings section, create virtual disks as mentioned in the

following table:

Table 8. Virtual disks

Name Capacity Physical disks to be

used

RAID level

VD1_Quorum 2 GB 1,2,3,4 10

VD2_VMVHDs Select available space

after creating

VD1_Quorum volume.

1,2,3,4 10

3. Under Select Physical Disks, select the physical disks 1, 2, 3, 4 on which the virtual disks will be

created.

4. Click Apply.

Initializing virtual disks

To initialize virtual disks:

1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Virtual Disks → Manage.

2. On the Manage Virtual Disks page, from the Virtual Disk Actions drop-down menu, select

Initialize:Fast, and then click Apply.

Wait until the initialization process completes as it will take some minutes to complete.

Assigning global hot spares

To assign or unassign a global hot spare:

1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Physical Disk → Setup.