Viewing and configuring the virtual drives

When you select RAID Setup under Server Configuration, the Array Configuration tab will be chosen and the existing virtual disks will be displayed by default. The logical drives are sorted by disk arrays and controllers. Detailed information about the virtual disk, such as the virtual disk strip size and bootable information is displayed.

To configure the RAID settings, click Enable Edit mode.

In edit mode, you can click the controller action menu, view the current RAID virtual disks and create new RAID virtual disks.

From the Controller Actions menu, you can perform the following actions:

Clear RAID configuration

Clears all the configuration and data on the selected controller.

Import foreign drives

Import any foreign drives that were detected. A foreign drive is a drive that was moved from a different RAID configuration to the current RAID controller

Note

You will be notified if no foreign drives are detected.

Manage foreign configuration

Import any foreign drives that were detected. A foreign drive is a drive that was moved from a different RAID configuration to the current RAID controller

Note

You will be notified if no foreign drives are detected.

If you click the virtual disk name, a virtual disk properties window will appear.

Creating a new RAID virtual disk​

1. Select drives or a disk array which has free storage capacity
   1. When creating a virtual disk in a new disk array, you need to specify the RAID level.
      Note

      If there are not enough drives to select, and you click Next, an error message will appear under the RAID level field.
   2. For some RAID levels, span is required. There is also a minimum amount of drives that need to be present in the span. For these types of situations, specifiy the span number in the Span Number field, select Member or Hot Spare from the drop-down menu next to the drives, then tick the checkbox next to the drives that will be used to create the virtual disk.
   3. To create virtual disks in an existing disk array, you need to select a disk array that has free capacity.
2. Creating a virtual disk
   1. By default, creating a virtual disk will use all the storage capacity. The Add icon is disabled when all of the storage is used. You can click the pencil icon to change the capacity or other properties.
   2. When you edit the first virtual disk to use only some of the storage capacity, the Add icon will be enabled. Click the icon to show the Add Virtual Disk window.
   3. Click the Remove icon to remove a virtual disk. This icon will not be shown if there is only one virtual disk. When you click the Remove icon, the selected row will be immediately deleted. There will be no confirmation window as the virtual disk has not been created yet.
   4. Click Start Creating to start the process.