Users Guide

Parameter Value

NOTE: Alternatively, set the Starting LBA to "0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF", then the starting

location of the slice is automatically calculated to be immediately after the end of the

last slice.

Stripe Size The stripe element size is the amount of disk space a stripe consumes on each physical disk

in the stripe. You can set the following values in bits:

NOTE: The S110 and H310 controllers support only 64KB stripe size.

– 64KB = 128

– 128KB = 256

– 256KB = 512

– 512KB = 1024

– 1MB = 2048

Read Policy

– No Read Ahead

– Read Ahead

– Adaptive Read Ahead

Write Policy

– Write Through

– Write Back

– Write Back Force

Disk Cache Policy

– Enabled

– Disabled

Virtual Disk Name Optionally, you can provide a name for the virtual disk. You can use 115 alphanumeric

character limit.

4. To create 10 virtual disks, run the method 9 more times with the same values listed in the above table.

5. Verify that the virtual disks have been created.

6. Set the following values and invoke the EnableControllerEncryption() method:

– Fully Qualified Device Descriptor (FQDD) of the controller.

– Encryption Mode — Local Key Encryption.

– Key ID.

– Passphrase — A valid passphrase contains 8 to 32 characters. It must include a combination of uppercase

and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and without spaces.

7. Use the FQDD of the physical disk to be used as the spare invoke the AssignSpare() method.

NOTE: If you require a dedicated hot spare, use the FQDD of the related virtual disk as the target instead of using

the FQDD of the controller.

8. Construct the input parameters (for example, Target, RebootType, ScheduledStartTime, and so on) for the

CreateTargetedConfigJob() method. See the RAID Profile document at delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library to

see the list of all the supported input parameters.

9. Invoke the CreateTargetedConfigJob() method to apply the pending values. If this method is successful, the system

must return a job ID for the configuration task you created.

NOTE: The system must reboot to execute the tasks.