The advanced configuration procedure provides an easy way to create a new storage configuration. Advanced configuration gives you greater flexibility than simple configuration because you can select the drives and the virtual drive parameters when you create a virtual drive. In addition, you can use the advanced configuration procedure to create spanned drive groups.
The Create Drive Group Settings window appears, as shown in the following figure.
The RAID controller supports RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. In addition, it supports independent drives (configured as RAID 0 and RAID 00). The screen text gives a brief description of the RAID level you select. The RAID levels you can choose depends on the number of drives available.
The drive security feature provides the ability to encrypt data and use disk-based key management for your data security solution. This solution provides protection to the data in the event of the theft or loss of drives.
The selected drives appear under Span 0 below
Drive Group 0, as shown in the following figure.
The Virtual Drive Settings window appears, as shown in the following figure. The drive group and the default virtual drive settings appear. The options to update the virtual drive or remove the virtual drive are grayed out until you create the virtual drive.
See Creating a Virtual Drive Using Simple Configuration for more information about the virtual drive settings.
The new virtual drive appears under the drive group, as shown in the following figure. The options Update Virtual Drive and
Remove Virtual Drive are available.
Update Virtual Drive allows you to change the virtual drive settings and
Remove Virtual Drive allows you to delete the virtual drive.
The Create Virtual Drive - Summary window appears, as shown in the following figure. This window shows the selections you made for advanced configuration.
After the configuration is completed, a dialog box notifies you that the virtual drives were created successfully. If more drive capacity exists, the dialog box asks whether you want to create more virtual drives. If no more drive capacity exists, you are prompted to close the configuration session.
If you select Yes, the system takes you to the Create Virtual Drive screen. If you select
No, the utility asks whether you want to close the wizard.
If you select Yes, the configuration procedure closes. If you select
No, the dialog box closes, and you remain on the same page.