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displayed near the Size text box. In some cases, the virtual is slightly larger

than the size you specify. The Create Virtual Disk Wizard adjusts the size of

the virtual disk to avoid rendering a portion of the physical disk space

unusable.

Select a stripe size from the

Stripe Element Size

drop-down list. The

stripe size refers to the amount of space that each stripe consumes on a

single disk. For more information, see What Is RAID?

Select the required read, write, and disk cache policy from the respective

drop-down lists. These selections can vary depending on the controller. For

more information, see RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk

Cache Policy.

NOTE: There is limited support for write policy on controllers that do not have

a battery. For more information, see

Write Policy

. The cache policy is not

supported on controllers that do not have a battery. For more information, see

RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy

NOTE: If you have selected the Create Encrypted Virtual Disk check box in

Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard, then in the Summary of Virtual Disk

Attributes, an Encrypted Virtual Disk attribute is displayed with a value Yes.

Click

Span Edit

to edit the spans created in Create Virtual Disk Advanced

Wizard.

This option is available only if

the controller is a SAS controller with

firmware 6.1 and later and if you selected RAID 10.

NOTE: If you click Span Edit, Intelligent Mirroring that is already been applied

becomes invalid.

NOTE:

If you clicked

Span Edit

and navigated to this screen, do not click

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Click

Finish

to complete the virtual disk creation.

The virtual disk is displayed in the

Virtual Disk(s) on Controller

page.

For PERC H700 and PERC H800 controllers, if any of the drives you

selected 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.