Repeat this for each controller in the system.Then you’ll be presented with the summary, click Finish to finalize the creating of the RAID.Click Create Virtual Drive, you’ll be given a pop up warning about the Write Back policy which is fine as long as you have the Battery Back up backs in your machine (these are standard in our Storinators). The only setting we typically change here is to have a Full Initialization. Next you’ll be asked to set up some Virtual drive settings.Next you’ll need to click Create Drive Group – followed by Next.Select RAID6 in the RAID Level drop down, and highlight all Unconfigured Drives in the list on the left – then click Add > to add them to the RAID.Select the Advanced option and click Next.To create our RAID, right click on the Controller and select Create Virtual Drive Once on the Physical tab, you’ll see a break down of each drive connected to each controller.Click on the Physical tab circled in red below. Once logged in you’ll see the Dashboard giving some information of each card in the system.You’ll see a list of remote servers when the login screen opens, click on the local machine and then enter the Windows server Administrator name and password.Once you’re logged in, open up MegaRAID Storage Manager to start the process of creating your RAID volumes.The default password assigned is 45Drives.

Log into your Windows Server Administrator account.

This means that an AV15 would have 1 controller, a Q30 would have 2 controllers, a S45 would have 3 controllers and a XL60 would have 4 controllers. We will be building a 15 Drive RAID6 (dual parity) on each of these controllers. Storinators are built such that each row is tied to a 16i LSI card, in this scenario it is the LSI 9361 Hardware RAID card. All Storinators that leave 45Drives facility will have the MegaRAID Storage Manager pre installed on the OS. Must have Windows Server installed on your Storinator, along with LSI 9361-16i cards in RAID mode.

We will walk through creating the RAID with MegaRAID Storage Manager, and then using Windows Storage Spaces to Stripe those RAIDs together to appear as one big Storage Volume. This document will walk through how 45Drives configures a Storinator using LSI 9361-16i HBA Cards along with Windows Storage spaces.

Windows storage manager