Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, and H840 Series Controllers

Creating virtual disks

1. Enter the Dell PERC 10 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Configuration Management > Create Virtual Disk.
   The following list of options are displayed for you to define the virtual disk parameters:

   • Select RAID level — allows you to choose the RAID level of your choice.
   • Secure Virtual Disk — If you want to create a secured virtual disk, select Secure Virtual Disk.
     NOTE:The Secure Virtual Disk option is enabled by default, only if the security key has been configured. Only SED physical disks are listed.
   • Select Physical Disks From — allows you to select one of the physical disk capacities:
     • Unconfigured Capacity: creates a virtual disk on unconfigured physical disks.
     • Free Capacity: utilizes unused physical disk capacity that is already part of a disk group.
   • Select Physical Disks — If you want to select the physical disks from which the virtual disks are being created, click Select Physical Disks. This option is displayed if you select Unconfigured Capacity as your physical disk capacity.
   • Select Disk Groups — If you want to select the disk groups from which the virtual disks are being created, click Select Disk Group. This option is displayed if you select Free Capacity as your physical disk capacity.
   • Configure Virtual Disk Parameters — allows you to set the virtual disk parameters when creating the virtual disk. For more information, see Configuring virtual disk parameters.
3. Click Create Virtual Disk.
   The virtual disk is created successfully.

   NOTE:Ensure that you restart the system after creating a new Non-RAID or Virtual Disk on drives that previously had boot partitions.