Users Guide

Notation Meaning and Use Example

<F1> Press <F1> to accessHelp information. The Help screens

display a glossary of topics you can use to access

information about navigation, RAID levels, and general topics.

<F1>

<F2> Press <F2> to access the context menu, which displays the

list of options.

<F2>

<F5> Press <F5> to refresh the information on the screen. <F5>

<F11> Switch between two controllers. <F11>

<F12> Press <F12> to display a list of controllers. <F12>

Spacebar Press the <spacebar> to select an item. Press the <spacebar> to select or deselect a controller

setting in the Ctrl Mgmt View.

Setting up virtual disks

You can set up a disk group and create virtual disks using the procedures in this section. Each procedure is explained individually in this

section in detail.

To set up virtual disks:

1 Create virtual disks. See Creating virtual disks.

2 Select the virtual disk options.

3 Designate hot spares (optional).

For more information, see Managing dedicated hot spares.

4 Initialize the virtual disks.

NOTE

: When you use one physical disk group to create multiple virtual disks, all the virtual disks must be congured

with the same RAID level.

When you dene the virtual disks, you can set the following virtual disk parameters:

• RAID level

• Stripe element size

• Read policy

• Write policy

• Type of initialization

• Hot spare conguration

NOTE

: The default hard drive cache policy for a virtual disk with SAS hard drives is disabled, and the cache

policy for a virtual disk with SATA hard drives is enabled. The Virtual Disk parameter cannot be changed in the

BIOS Conguration Utility Ctrl R . Use Dell OpenManage Storage Management for the hard drive cache setting

operation.

The following table shows the parameters that you can congure when dening virtual disks.

BIOS Conguration Utility