User's Manual

256 Virtual Disks
you have selected RAID 10 in step 1 and the system has 22 or more than 22
physical drives.
Click Continue when you have completed the disk selection. If you want to
cancel the virtual disk, click Exit Wizard. If you want to return to the previous
screen and change your selections, click Go Back To Previous Page.
For PERC H700 and PERC H800 controllers, if any of the drives you selected
to include as a hot spare is in the spun down state, the following message is
displayed: The below listed physical drive(s) are in the spun down state.
Executing this task on these drive(s) takes additional time, because the
drive(s) need to spun up.
The message displays the ID(s) of the spun down drive(s).
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard (Step 3 of 4)
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
This screen enables you to select attributes for the virtual disk. These
attributes include the name, size and read, write, and cache policy.
Depending on the controller and your previous virtual disk selections, the
items displayed on this screen can vary.
Do the following:
1
Type the name of the virtual disk in the Name text box.
The virtual disk name can contain only alphanumeric characters as well as
spaces, dashes and underscores. The maximum name length depends on
the controller. In most cases, the maximum length is 15 characters. The
name cannot start with a space or end with a space.
It is recommended that you specify a unique name for each virtual disk. If
you have virtual disks with the same name, it is hard to differentiate the
alerts generated for these virtual disks.
NOTE: The CERC SATA1.5/2s controller does not allow you to specify a name for
concatenated virtual disks. The concatenated virtual disk is created with a default
name.
2 The Size text box displays the default size of the virtual disk, depending
upon the RAID configuration you selected. You can specify a different size.
The virtual disk size must be within the minimum and maximum values
displayed near the
Size text box. In some cases, the virtual is slightly larger