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maxView™ Storage Manager User Guide for Adaptec® Smart Storage Controllers
maxView™ Storage Manager User Guide for Adaptec® Smart Storage Controllers
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  2. 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; move arrays and logical drives; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.

  3. 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; move arrays and logical drives; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.

    • 7.1 Understanding Arrays and Logical Drives
    • 7.2 Creating and Modifying Logical Drives
      • 7.2.1 Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive
    • 7.3 Enabling Background Consistency Check
    • 7.4 Optimizing Logical Drive Performance
    • 7.5 Moving a Logical Drive
    • 7.6 Moving an Array
    • 7.7 Modifying an Array
    • 7.8 Working with Mirrored Arrays
    • 7.9 Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive
    • 7.10 Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive
    • 7.11 Changing the Logical Drive Rebuild Priority
    • 7.12 Renaming a Logical Drive
    • 7.13 Deleting an Array or Logical Drive
    • 7.14 Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space
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  • 8 Working with maxCache Devices
  • 9 Working with maxCrypto™ Devices
  • 10 Working with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption
  • 11 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
  • 12 Maintaining Physical Devices
  • 13 Monitoring Status and Activity

    This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.

  • 14 Managing Your Storage Space
  • 15 Solving Problems

    This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.

  • 16 Silent Installation on Windows and Linux
  • 17 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Windows and Linux
  • 18 Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere 8 HTML5
  • 19 Using maxView Storage Manager with HBAs and Non-RAID Mode Controllers
  • 20 Selecting the Best RAID Level
  • 21 Icons At-a-Glance
  • 22 Smart Controller Device Status
  • 23 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device
  • 24 maxView Video Tutorials
  • 25 Revision History
  • Microchip Information

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 disk drives, see Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive

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