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Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe
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To clear the check tables, see “Clearing Statistics” on page 63.
Creating a Logical Drive Manually
This feature creates a logical drive only. You can also use the Wizard to create a
disk array with logical drives and spare drives at the same time. See “Creating a
Disk Array with the Wizard” on page 123.
This action requires Super User or Power User privileges.
To create a logical drive manually:
1. Click the Storage tab.
2. Click the Logical Drive icon.
3. Click the Create Logical Drive button.
4. Click the option button of the disk array you want to use and click the Next
button.
5. Optional. Enter an alias in the Alias field.
Maximum of 32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and
underline.
6. Choose a RAID level.
The choice of RAID levels depends the number of physical drives in the disk
array.
7. RAID 50 and 60 only. Specify the number of axles for your array.
8. In the Capacity field, accept the default maximum capacity or enter a lesser
capacity and size in MB, GB or TB.
Any remaining capacity is available for an additional logical drive.
9. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as
required:
• Choose a Stripe size.
64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB are available.
• Choose a Sector size.
512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, and 4 KB are available.
• Choose a Read (cache) Policy.
Read Cache, Read Ahead, and No Cache are available.
• Choose a Write (cache) Policy.
Write Back and Write Through (Thru) are available.
10. Click the Add button.
The new logical drive appears on the list at the right.
If there is capacity remaining, you can create an additional logical drive.