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Table 8 Basic Storage Policy Options
Storage Policy Description
JBOD (bypass) Creates a logical volume for each physical hard disk drive.
Creates two volumes. For each volume, one hard disk drive is mirrored
SAFE (RAID 1)
onto a second drive. Makes the remaining drive the Hot Spare
for both volumes.
BIG (span) Concatenates all hard disk drives into a single volume.
FAST (RAID 0) Creates one volume that is striped across up to five hard disk drives.
Concatenates half the available space on four hard disk drives and
SAFE and BIG
SAFE and FAST
(RAID 1+0)
mirrors that half to the second half of the available space.
Makes the remaining drive the Hot Spare.
Creates one volume consisting of four hard disk drives (data is
written to the mirrored disks in a striped format). Makes the
remaining drive the Hot Spare.
4. When prompted to acknowledge that the configuration change may result in data loss,
click Yes to accept the configuration.
5. Select Save to Config File from the File menu or click the Write configuration for system to
a file toolbar button to save the configuration.
6. Click Apply to create the selected configuration. The Volume display will close automatically
and the Status window will refresh (within a minute or so).
7. Partition the configured volume(s) to complete the implementation. See “Partitioning
Volumes” for details.