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In the Capacity Optimized setup, all available Candidate disk drives are used, no
“unconfigured drives” remain, unlike in the Performance Optimized setup. Figure 8-22
shows an example of the capacity optimized setup.
Figure 8-22 Capacity optimized setup
8.2 Working with MDisks
After the configuration is completed for the internal storage, you can find the MDisks created
on the internal arrays in the MDisks by Pools window.
You can access the MDisks window by clicking Home  Overview and clicking the MDisks
function icon. In the extended help information window, click Pools.
Figure 8-23 on page 314 shows how to access the Pools window from the Getting Started
window.
Provisioned drives: You can choose the number of drives to be provisioned. The wizard
proposes that you create arrays from all available candidate drives. If you want to configure
only a subset of drives at this moment in time, you can change the number in the Drives to
provision field to the wanted value. If you want to manually select the drives to provision,
assign only the wanted drives Candidate status. Alternatively, you can use the CLI for full
control over the drive configuration, which is beyond the intended scope of this book.