User`s guide

6
Modifying Your Direct Attached
Storage
In this chapter...
Understanding Logical Drives ............................................................................................... 60
Creating and Modifying Logical Drives ................................................................................ 61
Fine-tuning Logical Drives .................................................................................................... 64
Optimizing Logical Drive Performance ................................................................................ 67
Verifying Logical Drives ......................................................................................................... 68
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive............................................................................ 70
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive........................................................................ 71
Deleting a Logical Drive......................................................................................................... 72
Creating a RAID Volume ....................................................................................................... 72
Creating a JBOD Disk ............................................................................................................74
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space ................................................................... 76
Configuring the MaxIQ Cache .............................................................................................. 79
This chapter explains how to create and modify logical drives, optimize logical drive
performance, and use Adaptec Storage Manager’s power management features to maintain an
energy-efficient storage space.