SUPER MICRO Computer AOCS2308LL8E Manuel D’Utilisation

AOC-USAS-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual

9. Click N

EXT

 to continue with the next configuration step.

The V

IRTUAL

 D

ISK

 S

UMMARY

 screen appears.

10. Review the configuration shown in the screen. If you want to change something, 

click B

ACK

 and change the configuration parameters.

11. Click F

INISH

 to accept the configuration and start the initialization process (unless 

you selected N

O

 I

NITIALIZATION

 earlier).

Follow these steps to create a RAID 5 storage configuration using the Manual 
Configuration mode of the Configuration Wizard. You must buy the I-Button feature from 
SuperMicro to enable RAID level 5 use.

1. In the first M

ANUAL

 C

ONFIGURATION

 screen (

), select three available drives 

in the left panel. Click the right arrow button to move the selected drives to the right 
panel.

2. Click A

CCEPT

 to accept these drives for the new RAID 5 array.

3. Click N

EXT

. 

The next C

ONFIGURATION

 W

IZARD

 screen appears (

). The A

RRAYS

 menu 

lists the new array that you just defined, plus any existing arrays with holes (free 
space) that could be used for a new configuration.

4. From the A

RRAYS

 menu, select the array to use for the new virtual disk.

5. In the right panel, select RAID 5 as the RAID level.

6. (Optional) Set S

IZE

 (in MB) to a lower number if you do not want to use the entire 

available capacity for the new virtual disk.

7. (Optional) Change the other V

IRTUAL

 D

ISK

 P

ROPERTIES

, if necessary.

8. Click A

CCEPT

 to accept the configuration of the new virtual disk.

MegaRAID Storage Manager software will not allow you to select the 

disk drive on which the operating system is installed or any other drives that are 
already part of a configuration.

To remove a single drive from a proposed new array, select the drive 

icon in the right panel and click the left arrow button.

Click the R

ECLAIM

 button if you want to undo a virtual disk that you just 

defined.