Managing Logical Drives (Clu) - Asus DS300j G2 Series User Manual

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To run Spare Check:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Spare Drive Management and press Enter .
A list of the current spare drives appears.
2. Highlight the spare drive you want to check and press Enter .
3. Highlight Start Spare Check and press Enter .
The results appear next to Spare Check Status in the same window. Healthy means normal.
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Caution
If the spare drive you delete is the only spare, the controller does not rebuild a critical
array until you provide a new spare drive.
To delete a spare drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Spare Drive Management and press Enter .
A list of the current spare drives appears.
2. Highlight the spare drive you want to delete and press the spacebar to mark it.
The mark is an asterisk (*) to the left of the listing.
3. Highlight Delete Marked Spare Drives and press Enter .
4. Press Y to confirm the deletion.
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Logical drive management includes:
• "Creating a Logical Drive (CLU)" on page 138
• "Deleting a Logical Drive (CLU)" on page 139
• "Viewing the Logical Drive Check Table (CLU)" on page 139
• "Making Logical Drive Settings (CLU)" on page 140
• "Initializing a Logical Drive (CLU)" on page 140
• "Running Redundancy Check (CLU)" on page 140
• "Locating a Logical Drive (CLU)" on page 140
• "Migrating a Logical Drive (CLU)" on page 141
• "Creating a LUN Clone (CLU)" on page 141
For LUN mapping, see "Working with LUN Mapping (CLU)" on page 156
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You can create logical drives on existing disk arrays if there is available space in the array.
To create a logical drive from an existing disk array:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array in which you want to create a logical drive and press Enter .
3. Highlight Logical Drives in the Disk Array and press Enter .
4. Highlight Create New Logical Drive and press Enter .
The Disk Array ID number and Maximum capacity available for the new logical drive are displayed.
5. Highlight the following parameters and press the backspace key to erase the current value:
• Alias – Type an alias into the field, if desired. Maximum of 32 characters.
Use letters, numbers, space between words and underscore.
• RAID Level - Press the spacebar to toggle though a list of available RAID levels.
• Capacity – Maximum capacity shown. Enter a smaller capacity if desired.
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