Combining SAS and SATA
disk drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, combining
disk drives and SSDs within a virtual disk is not supported.
Combing 4 KB disk drives and 512n or 512e disk drives within a virtual disk is not supported.
Perform the
following steps to create a virtual disk:
During host system bootup, press <Ctrl><R>
after the BIOS screen is displayed.
The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed. If there is more than one controller, the main
menu screen is displayed. Select a controller, and press <Enter>.
The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed
for the selected controller.
Use the arrow keys to highlight the PERC 9
series of adapters, for example the PERC H730P Adapter or Disk Group #.
Press <F2>.
A list of available actions is displayed.
Select Create New VD and
press <Enter>.
The Create New VD screen
is displayed. The cursor is on the RAID Level option. When adding a virtual disk to a Disk Group, the Add VD in Disk Group screen is displayed. Skip to step
11 to change the basic settings of the virtual disk.
Press <Enter> to display the possible
RAID levels.
Press the down-arrow key to select a RAID
level and press <Enter>.
When creating a spanned virtual disk (RAID
50 or 60), enter the number of physical disks per span in the PD per Span field and press <Enter>.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the list
of physical disks.
Use the arrow key to highlight a physical
disk and press the spacebar, <Alt> , or <Enter> to select the
disk.
Select additional disks, if required.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the Basic Settings box.
Set the virtual disk size in the VD Size field.
The virtual disk size is displayed in GB format.
Press <Tab> to access the VD
Name field, and type a virtual disk name.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Advanced settings
Press the spacebar to make the settings active
so that you can change them.
An X is displayed beside Advanced settings. The settings are the stripe
size, read policy, write
policy, and disk cache policy.
You can also choose advanced options such as forcing the cache policy
to Write-Back, initializing the virtual disk,
and configuring a dedicated hot spare. The default parameters are
displayed. You can accept the defaults or change them. To change
the virtual disk parameters, see Virtual Disk Parameters and Descriptions
in Setting up virtual disks.
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