Drive Type/RPM/Capacity

Select the type of the drive box.

RAID level

Select the RAID level.

Drive Selection

Select the mode of the drive selection from Auto or Manual.

Number of Parity Groups

Enter the number of parity groups. This item appears when selected Auto as your drive selection.

Available Drives

This item appears when selected Manual as your drive selection.

For drives to be incorporated to a parity group, set the check box of a row to ON.

• Location: Displays the location of the drive box.
• Drive Box: Displays the name of the drive box.
• Drive Box Type: Displays the type of the drive box.
• Drive Type-Code: Displays the type code of the drive box.

The number you have to select

Displays the number of drives that you must select. This item appears when selected Manual as your drive selection.

Initial Parity Group ID

Enter the parity group ID.

Text box on the left side: Enter the alphanumeric characters, which are fixed characters of the head of the parity group names. Characters are case-sensitive.

Text box on the right side: Enter the initial number following the prefix name.

Drive Box Type

Select the type of drive box. This item appears when selected Auto as your drive selection.

Initial Drive Box

This item appears when selected Auto as your drive selection.

The smallest available number is entered in the text box as a default. No number appears in the text box if no available parity group ID exists. If you specify the parity group ID which is already used, the minimum parity group ID after that the specified parity group ID is automatically set.

Drive Select Type

This item appears when selected Auto as your drive selection.

Select the method for the selecting of drives in a parity group.

• Disperse: Selected drives where are located dispersedly.
• Linear: Selected drives where are located linearly.

This item is not available with Virtual Storage Platform G200. If this storage system is used, only Linear is available.

Cache Partition

Select a CLPR number which is displayed as ID:CLPR.

Encryption

Specify if encrypted parity groups are created.

• Enable: Encrypted parity groups are created.
• Disable: Non-encrypted parity groups are created.

This item is not available with Virtual Storage Platform G200.

accelerated compression

Displays the accelerated compression setting (enable or disable). If Enable is selected in the Encryption field, you cannot select Enable in the accelerated compression field. If the accelerated compression field is not defined, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Copy-Back Mode

Specify if the copy-back mode is set to a parity group.

• Enable: Copy-back mode is enabled in a parity group.
• Disable: Copy-back mode is disabled in a parity group

Add

When you click Add, the configured information is added to the right side of the Selected Parity Groups table.

Parity Group ID

Displays a parity group ID.

Drive Type/RPM/Capacity

Displays the drive type, RPM, and capacity. As for SSD, a hyphen (-) appears on the RPM field.

RAID Level

Displays a RAID level.

CLPR

Displays the CLPR ID and name that is displayed as ID:CLPR.

Encryption

Displays the encryption information.

• Enable: Encrypted parity group.
• Disable: Non-encrypted parity group.

This item is not available with Virtual Storage Platform G200.

Accelerated Compression

Displays the accelerated compression setting (enable or disable). If the accelerated compression field is not defined, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Copy-Back Mode

Displays the copy-back mode setting information.

• Enable: Copy-back mode is set to enable in a parity group
• Disable: Copy-back mode is set to disable in a parity group.

Drive Type-Code

Displays the drive type-code.

Concatenate

Creates a concatenated parity group by selecting multiple rows. When clicked this button with selecting multiple rows, a message asking whether a concatenated parity group is created is displayed.

Change Settings

Changes the setting of the parity group. When clicked this button with selecting a row, the Change Settings window is displayed.

Detail

Displays the Parity Group Properties window when a row is selected, and shows the error window when a row is not selected or multiple rows are selected.

Remove

Deletes the parity group selected in the Selected Parity Groups window. Displays the error window when a row is not selected.