5.4 Creating Arrays and Logical Drives

maxView Storage Manager provides a wizard to help you create, or configure, the arrays and logical drives in your storage space. You can choose from two configuration methods:

  • Create logical drive on new array—Helps you set the RAID level for the logical drive, group disk drives and SSDs, determine logical drive size and other advanced settings.

    For instructions, see Creating a Logical Drive on a New Array.

  • Create logical drive on existing array—Helps you select an array on which to create the logical drive, set the RAID level, group disk drives and SSDs, determine logical drive size and configure advanced settings.

    For instructions, see Creating a Logical Drive on an Existing Array.

If maxCrypto is enabled, you can create encrypted or plaintext volumes. (For more information, see Working with maxCrypto™ Devices.)

Note:
  1. Mixing SAS and SATA drives within the same logical drive is not supported. The wizard does not allow you to select a combination of SAS and SATA drive types.
  2. maxView Storage Manager supports SMR HA1 and SMR DM drives for all RAID levels. However, mixing SMR and PMR2 drives within the same logical drive is not supported. maxView Storage Manager displays a warning message if you try to create a logical drive using a combination of SMR and PMR device types.
1 SMR: Shingled Magnetic Recording. HA: Host Aware (backward compatible with standard HDD). DM: Device Managed (backward compatible with standard HDD).
2 PMR: Perpendicular Magnetic Recording; standard HDD recording technology.