Creating a Cache Group : Creating a Cache Group in Manual Mode : Selecting the Virtual Drives

Selecting the Virtual Drives

You can add the virtual drives only if the total VDs in the cache group do not exceed the maximum supported VDs (a maximum of 64 VDs are supported).

1.

Click Next on the dialog shown in the Adding the Cache Devicestopic.

If there are no eligible virtual drives are detected, the following dialog appears indicating that there are no eligible VDs.

Figure 19. First-Time Configuration – Create Cache Group: No Eligible VD

You can select the eligible virtual drives anytime later.

Or,

If the eligible virtual drives are detected, the following dialog appears allowing you to select the eligible virtual drives.

Figure 20. First-Time Configuration – Create Cache Group: Selecting Eligible VD

2.

Select the Cache device, and click Add > to add into the Cache group box.

The Next button is enabled as shown in the following figure.

Figure 21. First-Time Configuration – Create Cache Group: Selecting Eligible VD (continued)

If you click Next without selecting any eligible VDs, the following warning message appears.

Figure 22. No Cached Virtual Drives

3.

Click Yes in the preceding figure to continue without selecting any VDs.

Or,

4.

To select the VDs from the Virtual drives box, click Add > on the to add the VDs individually or click Add All >> to add all of the VDs.

The Add button is enabled if there is at least one selectable VD in the Virtual drives box. You can select more than one VD, by holding the Shift or Ctrl key.

5.

Click Next.

The preview dialog appears.