Tips for Allocating Capacity

The disk drives in your provide the physical storage capacity for your data. Before you can begin storing data, you must configure the physical capacity into logical components known as and . You use these components to configure, store, maintain, and preserve data on your storage subsystem.

An array is a set of disk drives that the controller logically groups together to provide one or more logical drives to a . When you create a logical drive from , you can create an array and the logical drive at the same time. When you create a logical drive from , you are creating an additional logical drive on an already existing array.

With the advent of higher capacity disk drives and the ability to distribute logical drives across controllers, creating more than one logical drive per array is a good way to make use of your storage capacity and to protect your data.

Tips for Allocating Capacity

Keep these tips in mind when you configure your storage subsystem capacity: