Creating a Nytro Virtual Drive

> Creating a Nytro Virtual Drive

> If you select the Nytro Virtual Drive mode, and click Next, the following dialog appears.

> Figure 18. Create Drive Group – Drive Group Settings

> 1. | Select the RAID level from the RAID level drop-down list.

> NOTE If the Nytro MegaRAID8115-8e8i and Nytro MegaRAID8140-8e8i controller SKUs are used, the RIAD level drop-down list shows RAID 5 and RAID 6 levels.

> 2. | Select the unconfigured Nytro Flash modules from the Select unconfigured drives drop-down list.

> 3. | Click Add >.

> You can also select one of the unconfigured Nytro Flash modules, click Add Hot Spare >and assign them the hot spare status.

> 4. | Click Create Drive Group.

> 5. | Click Next.

> The following dialog appears.

> Figure 19. Create Nytro Drive Group

> 6. | To create a Span drive, click Create Span (Spanned drive creation instructions are provided at the end of the document).

> 7. | Click Next.

> The following dialog appears.

> Figure 20. Create Virtual Drive – Virtual Drive Settings

> 8. | For information about the VD parameters, see Specifying the Virtual Drive Parameters.

> Based on your selection, that is, RAID 1 or RAID 0, the write policy is Write Back.

> Nytro Write Back Caching

> RAID 1 Write Back caching delivers high application performance acceleration for write-intensive random I/O workloads.

> Nytro Write Through Caching

> RAID 0 and RAID 1 Write Through caching delivers high application performance acceleration for read-intensive random I/O workloads.

> The newly created Nytro Cache drive group appears in the Nytro™ Drive groups box on the right pane as shown in the preceding figure.

> The dialog confirming the creation of Nytro VD appears.

> 9. | Click Create Virtual Drive.

> The following dialog appears.

> Figure 21. Create Nytro Virtual Drive

> 10. | Click Yes on the Write Through Selected dialog.

> The Nytro VD is created as shown in the following dialog.

> Figure 22. Create Nytro™ Cache Drive – Dialog 2

> 11. | Click Next.

> The following Nytro virtual drive summary appears.

> Figure 23. Create Virtual Drive – Summary

> 12. | Click Finish.

> Select the Logical tab on the MegaRAID Storage Manager application window to check the details of the Nytro virtual drive.

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