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7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
7.2 Creating and Modifying Logical Drives

1 About this Guide
2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
This section introduces the maxView Storage Manager software, explains the concept of “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
3 Installing maxView Storage Manager
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager
This section familiarizes you with the main features of the maxView Storage Manager graphical user interface. It describes how to start and login to maxView Storage Manager. It also explains how to get help and log out of maxView Storage Manager when you are finished working with the application.
5 Building Your Storage Space
6 Protecting Your Data
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
8 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
9 Maintaining Physical Devices
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
11 Managing Your Storage Space
12 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
13 Silent Installation on Linux
14 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Linux
15 Selecting the Best RAID Level
16 Icons At-a-Glance
17 Smart Controller Device Status
18 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device and a Physical Device
19 Revision History
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7.2 Creating and Modifying Logical Drives

For basic instructions for creating logical drives, see Building Your Storage Space. To create a logical drive from different-sized physical drives, see Including Different-sized Physical Drives in a Logical Drive