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Configuration > Creating a New Configuration > Auto Configuration

Auto Configuration

Auto Configuration is the quickest and simplest way to configure a virtual disk. When you select Auto Configuration, MegaRAID Storage Manager creates the best configuration possible using the controllers and physical disks that are available.

Follow these steps to complete Auto Configuration:

  1. Select a Redundancy option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen:
    • No Redundancy: The virtual disk will have no data redundancy (RAID 0). If a physical disk fails, all data is lost.
    • With Redundancy: The virtual disk will have data redundancy, either via parity data (RAID 5) or mirrored data (RAID 1). If a physical disk fails, data is still protected.
  2. Select an Initialization option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen:
    • No Init: Select this option if you do not want to initialize the new configuration at this time. If you select this option, be sure to initialize the configuration later. For more information, see Initializing a Virtual Disk
    • Quick Init: Select this option to quickly initialize the configuration by writing zeros to the first and last 10 Mbyte regions of the virtual disk.
    • Full Init: Select this option to run a complete initialization of the configuration. This may take a long time, depending on the number and capacity of the physical disks.
  3. Click Modify if you want to make changes to the Auto Configuration. For example, you could modify the size of a virtual disk.
  4. Click Finish. The storage configuration will be created and initialized (unless you selected No Init).
  5. The new configuration appears in the Logical View screen.

DB09-000159-00  July 2005
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