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With the Storage Array Configuration Wizard, you can:

• Specify a virtual disk size, and then let the storage array automatically choose the physical disks for the virtual disk’s disk group.

  With this option, the storage array attempts to spread the required disk space for the virtual disk equally across each physical disk it selects.

  When you specify a virtual disk size, the Storage Array Configuration Wizard presents you with the total amount of disk space available to create a virtual disk. The total available disk space is derived from the physical disks that are present. You can use the entire space to create one virtual disk, or you can specify smaller amounts of space and create multiple virtual disks. Each virtual disk you create is based on the amount of disk space you enter. To create multiple virtual disks, run the wizard multiple times, until you have the virtual disks you want, or until you exhaust the disk space.

• Create a disk group by manually selecting the physical disks, from which you can then choose the number of virtual disks to create.

  With this option, the Storage Array Configuration Wizard lets you customize the entire virtual disk creation process on the storage array.

• Configure hot spares.

  You can also use this wizard to add or change hot spares for the disk groups that are already configured.