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Guided Configuration

Guided Configuration creates the best possible configuration on the controller after asking you a few simple questions. When the first screen appears, follow these steps to complete Guided Configuration:

  1. Select a Redundancy option:
    • Redundancy Only: Create a configuration only if redundancy is possible (and if there are enough available disk drives, and so on).
    • Redundancy when possible: Create a redundant configuration if possible. Otherwise, create a non-redundant configuration.
    • No Redundancy: Create a non-redundant configuration.
  2. Choose whether you want to use existing arrays in the new virtual disk. The options are:
    • Use Existing Arrays Only
    • Don't Use Existing Arrays
    • Use Existing and New Arrays
    • The first and third options are disabled if there are no available existing arrays.
  3. Select a maximum number of virtual disks to be created. As indicated in the text on the screen, MegaRAID Storage Manager may or may not be able to create as many virtual disks as you want, depending on the current configuration and the number of virtual disks that have already been created.
  4. Click Next to continue to the next screen.
  5. On this screen, change the default volume parameters, if needed.
  6. In the top section of the screen you can specify the number of virtual disks to create. You can also choose to use less than the full capacity of this array for the virtual disk(s). (You might want to do this in order to leave capacity available for other virtual disks that you create later. However, in some situations the remaining space might not be usable.) The volume options, such as Stripe Size, are explained in Manual Configuration
  7. Click Next to continue to the next screen.
  8. Check the configuration that you have just defined. If it is acceptable, click Finish. If you want to change something, click Back to return to previous screens.

DB09-000159-00  July 2005
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