Users Guide
Logical drives (also known as virtual disks)
Logical drives are present on RAID arrays and non-RAID groups. While conguring the logical drives you can allocate a specic size (in GB)
or allocate all the available (or remaining) space in the array to them. By default, a single logical drive is created for all new arrays and is set
to use all the available space.
When specic-size logical drives are dened, the using all remaining space logical drive will consume any remaining space after other
logical drive(s) are allocated their space on the array.
NOTE: Array Builder does not support creating logical drives under Non-RAID groups.
NOTE: You cannot delete a logical drive under Non-RAID disks in Array Builder.
Adding a new logical drive
1 Select the array and click Logical Drives > New Logical Drive.
The Logical Drive Settings window is displayed.
2 Under Create a logical drive, enter the exact number of gigabytes the logical drive must contain.
3 Click OK to create the logical drive or click Cancel to return to Array Builder.
Editing a logical drive
1 Select the logical drive and click Logical Drives > Edit Logical Drive.
The Logical Drive Settings window is displayed. Here you can change the size of the logical drive.
2 Click OK to apply the changes or click Cancel to return to the Array Builder.
Deleting a logical drive
1 Select the logical drive and click Logical Drives > Delete Logical Drive.
A message to conrm the delete operation is displayed.
2 Click Yes to delete or No to cancel.
Disks (also known as array disks)
You can include disks as part of the arrays (or the non-RAID disks node). These disks can be classied as:
• Standard disks — These are the basic, non-dened disk type that make up the storage on arrays.
• Hot Spares — These disks provide online redundancy if a RAID disk fails, and are assigned to a specic array.
• All Remaining Disks — These disks provide an option to dene an array without specifying the exact number of disks in it.
If the controller conguration species the number of disks required, then an equivalent number of disks are added to the non-RAID group
too. If the controller species an exact quantity, then you cannot add or remove disks from the controller; you can only move them from
array to array (or the non-RAID group). If the controller conguration species a minimum number of disks, then you can add or remove
disks. However, you cannot remove disks below the lower limit specied in the controller conguration.
Adding a new disk
To add a new disk to an array, select the array and click Disks > New Disk.
You can choose from the following:
• Single disk
Using the Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack on systems running System Center
Conguration Manager, 2012 SP2,
2012 R2 SP1, 2012 R2, 2012 SP1, or 2012
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