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VTrak E-Class Product Manual
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Managing Logical Drives
Logical drive management includes:
• Creating a Logical Drive (page 242)
• Deleting a Logical Drive (page 243)
• Viewing Logical Drive Information (page 243)
• Viewing Logical Drive Statistics (page 244)
• Viewing the Logical Drive Check Table (page 244)
• Making Logical Drive Settings (page 245)
• Initializing a Logical Drive (page 245)
• Running Redundancy Check (page 246)
• Locating a Logical Drive (page 246)
• Migrating a Logical Drive (page 247)
• Creating a LUN Clone (page 248)
For LUN mapping, see “Working with LUN Mapping” on page 277.
Creating a Logical Drive
You can create logical drives on existing disk arrays if there is available space in
the array. For more information on the choices below, see “Logical Drives” on
page 333.
To create a logical drive from an existing disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array in which you want to create a logical drive and press
Enter.
3. Highlight Logical Drives in the Disk Array and press Enter.
4. Highlight Create New Logical Drive and press Enter.
The Disk Array ID number and Maximum capacity available for the new
logical drive are displayed.
5. Highlight the following parameters and press the backspace key to erase the
current value:
• Alias – Type an alias into the field, if desired. Maximum of 32
characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and
underscore.
• Capacity – Maximum capacity shown. Enter a smaller capacity if
desired.
6. Highlight the following parameters and press the spacebar to toggle though
the available choices: