Adding Physical Drives

The Available Unconfigured Drive window lists all the available unconfigured physical drives. You can either select each physical drive individually or select all the physical drives based on their respective drive type.

Perform the following steps to add physical drives to the drive group.

  1. On the Available Unconfigured Drives window, click on the corresponding check box of a particular physical drive to add it to the drive group.
    The selected physical drives appear in the Advanced Configuration window.

    You can click the icon to remove the physical drives that you have already added.

    For adding physical drives to the drive group based on their drive type:

  2. Click the ALL drop-down list.

    The physical drives are categorized by the system based on their drive type. For example, 4K drives, SAS/SATA drives, 512K drives, and so on).

    Figure 1. Available Unconfigured Drives – Drive Type Window

    1. From the available drop-down list, select the required drive type.
    2. Click on the check box that is located on the very first row to select the all the physical drives based on the drive type.
  3. Click Add Physical Drives to add the selected physical drives to the drive group.
Parent topic: Creating a New Storage Configuration Using the Advanced Configuration Option