Detailed steps for disk array RAID configuration in your computer

Detailed steps for disk array RAID configuration in your computer

1, according to the virtual Disk Manager at the bottom of the screen prompts, in the VD Mgmt menu (can be ctrl+p/ctrl+n switch menu), press F2 expand Virtual Disk Creation menu;

2, in the virtual disk to create a window, press ENTER to select "Create New VD" creation of virtual disk;

3, in the RAID level option to press ENTER, you can support the RAID levels, the RAID card can support the level of raid0/1/5/10/50, depending on the number of specific configuration of the hard disk, this location may appear different options, choose a different level, the options will vary , select the RAID level you want to configure (we take RAID5 here for example), confirm by carriage return;

4, confirm the raid level, press the DOWN ARROW keys, move the cursor to the physical disks list, move up and down to the desired hard disk location, press the space bar to select (remove) the hard disk in the list, when the number of selected hard disk to achieve this RAID level requirements, Basic The default capacity information for this raid can be displayed in the VD size of the settings. There are x marked as selected hard drives, after selecting the hard drive and pressing the TAB key, you can move the cursor to the VD size bar, and VD size can be manually sized, that is, you can not configure all the capacity on a single virtual disk, if the virtual disk does not have all the capacity of the RAID5 array we have configured, The remaining space can be configured as another virtual disk, but the next virtual disk must be configured to return to VD Mgmt creation, and the VD name will be set as needed or empty.

5, modify the Advanced settings, select the VD size, you can press the DOWN ARROW key, or the TAB key, move the cursor to the advanced settings, press the space bar to open (disabled) advanced settings. If it is turned on (the red box has an X mark turned on), you can modify the stripe Element size, and the read Policy and write policy,initialize of the array can choose whether to initialize at the same time as the array configuration, and the advanced setting defaults to shutdown (cannot be modified), if there is no special requirements, it is recommended not to modify the settings here;

6, the above configuration confirmation is complete, press the TAB key, move the cursor to OK, press ENTER, the following prompts, if it is a new array, recommend initialization, if the purpose of configuring the array is to restore the previous data, do not initialize. Press ENTER to confirm and continue.

If you need to do a computer disk array RAID configuration, you can refer to the above content.