116 CacheCade• Importing a CacheCade drive may result in a RAID 0 VD. You will need toreconfigure the CacheCade VD after importing.• CacheCade virtual disks are not presented to the operating system.Configuring and Managing CacheCade VirtualDisksThe Dell OpenManage storage management application and the controller’sBIOS Configuration Utility () allow the creation and deletion ofCacheCade virtual disks.The following sections describe the menu options specific to CacheCadevirtual disk management and provide detailed instructions to perform theconfiguration tasks. The contents of the following section apply to the BIOSConfiguration Utility. For more information on the managementapplications, see "Configuring and Managing RAID" on page 81.CacheCade Virtual Disk ManagementThe Virtual Disk Management screen is the first screen that is displayedwhen you access a RAID controller from the main menu screen on the BIOSConfiguration Utility.The following are CacheCade-related actions you can perform through thevirtual disk management menu:• Create CacheCade virtual disk• Assign CacheCade virtual disk name• Delete virtual diskCreate CacheCade Virtual DiskNOTE: Only SSDs can be used to create CacheCade virtual disks.NOTE: Combining SAS and SATA SSDs within a CacheCade virtual disk is notsupported.NOTE: To avoid inefficient use of space, it is recommended that CacheCadevolumes are created with drives of the same size. Larger disk sizes are truncated tothe size of the smallest contributing disk, similar to RAID 0.
