Installation guide

Software Operation Manual
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RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives.
RAID 30 requires at least 6 physical drives.
RAID 50 requires at least 6 physical drives.
RAID 60 requires at least 8 physical drives.
A
fter adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set, press the
Enter to confirm the “Create Raid Set” function
An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric
characters to define a unique identifier for this new RAID set. The default RAID
set name will always appear as Raid Set. #. Press Enter
to finish the name
editing.
Press the Enter
key when you are finished creating the current RAID set. To
continue defining another RAID set, repeat step 3. To begin volume set con-
figuration, go to step 8
Choose the “Volume Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create
Volume Set” and press the Enter key.
Choose a RAID set from the “Create Volume From Raid Set” window. Press
the Yes key to confirm the selection.
Choosing Foreground (Fast Completion) Press Enter key to define fast
initialization or selected the Background (Instant Available) or No Init (To
Rescue Volume). In the “Background Initialization”, the initializati
on proceeds
as a background task, the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and
writes. The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays
without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete. In
“ Foreground Initi
alization”, the initialization proceeds must be completed
before the volume set ready for system accesses. In “No Init”, there is no
initialization on this volume.
If space remains in the RAID set, the next volume set can be c
onfigured.
Repeat steps 8 to 10 to configure another volume set
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