MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System

Configuration > Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good

Converting JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good

You can convert JBOD drives to Unconfigured Good using Create Virtual Drive or Make Unconfigured Good drive option with a single configuration.

Perform the following steps to configure JBOD to Unconfigured Good drives by using any one of the following options.

  1. Perform one of the following steps:
    1. Right-click the controller node in the device tree in the left frame of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window and select Create Virtual Drive.
    2. -OR-
    3. Select the controller node and select Go To->Controller->Create Virtual Drive.
    4. The Create Virtual Drive - JBOD to Unconfigured Good Conversion wizard appears as shown in the following figure.
      Figure 23 JBOD Drives



      The JBOD drives field displays the available JBOD drives available in the system.
  2. Select the drives which you do not want to be configured as Unconfigured Good, and check the box before Do not convert JBOD drives to unconfigured good drives.
  3. If you do not want to make any JBOD as Unconfigured good drive(s), select the checkbox Do not convert JBOD drives to unconfigured good drives. Then the MSM application does not change any selected JBODs to unconfigured good drives.

  4. Click Next.
  5. The Create Virtual Drive screen appears as shown in Figure 12.

DB09-000202-04  37857-02  Rev. E  October 2010
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