Creating Logical Drives

Before you create a logical drive with ServerView RAID Manager, ensure that you are familiar with the Supported RAID Types and also know precisely which RAID level is most suitable for your application.

Create logical drive

Select a controller in the tree structure and start the Create logical drive action (via the pulldown menu of the Actions button or with a right mouse click). A dialog box is opened as in the example below for an Avago controller.

Depending on the controller type and RAID level you can change information and properties in the dialog box to create the logical drive.

On the left the dialog box contains a tree structure in which you select a hard disk and then make it available using the Add button. The hard disk that has been added is displayed under Current layout.

Logical drives generally (depending on the controller type and RAID level) consist of more than just one hard disk. You must therefore select and add a suitable number of hard disks. In our example (Avago controller and RAID-1) two hard disks are required. Then you can create the logical drive using the Create button. After you have pressed the Create button you must confirm creation of the logical drive again.

If you quit the dialog box via Cancel, no new logical drive is created.

Creating MegaRAID CacheCade Drives

This procedure does not create a user accessible logical drive but a drive that functions as a secondary tier of cache.

On controllers that support MegaRAID CacheCade and have the appropriate license installed select in the Create logical drive dialog a RAID level with (CacheCade) appendix. Then proceed as with creating a logical drive with SSD's.

After successful completion of the Create logical drive dialog a new object will appear in the tree structure as in the example below:

To grant access to the secondary tier of cache the action Enable SSD caching has to be executed on a logical drive.