Creating Only Nytro Cache Drive

> Creating Only Nytro Cache Drive

> 1. | Click Next.

> The following dialog appears.

> Figure 7. Create Nytro Cache Drive Group

> Use the following procedure to perform the Manual configuration:

> 1. | Select a RAID level for the Nytro Cache drive from the RAID level drop-down list.

> After you select an unconfigured Nytro Flash Module, the Add button is enabled.

> Figure 8. Create Nytro Drive group – Dialog 2

> 2. | Click Add to add the selected Nytro Flash Module into the Nytro Cache Drive Group box on the right pane.

> If you select more than one Nytro Flash Modules, the Create Drive Group button is enabled.

> 3. | Click Create Drive group.

> 4. | Click Next.

> The following dialog appears.

> Figure 9. Create Nytro Drive Group – Dialog 3

> 5. | Provide a name in the Nytro™ Cache Drive name box.

> Based on your selection, that is, RAID 1, RAID 0, or R1-EC, the write policy is Write Back.

> Write policy

> | Write Back

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

> | Write Through

> 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 Cache drive appears.

> 6. | Click Create Virtual Drive as shown in the following figure.

> Figure 10. Create Nytro Cache Drive – Create VD

> 7. | Click Next.

> The summary of the created Nytro Cache Drive appears.

> Figure 11. Create Nytro™ Cache – Summary

> Check the details added.

> 8. | Click Finish.

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

DB15-000988-08-December 2013
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