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Group Administration Basic volume operations
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1. Click Volumes in the lower-left panel, then expand Volumes in the far-left tree, then select the volume name,
then click the
Modify settings, and then click the General tab.
2. In the Modify volume settings – General dialog box, modify the name or the description.
The volume name
must be unique in the group and can contain up to 63 alphanumeric characters, including periods, hyphens, and
colons. The description can contain up to 127 ASCII characters.
3. Click
OK.
Modifying a volume alias
An alias can help administrators identify a volume. For example, some iSCSI initiators display the volume alias in
addition to the iSCSI target name.
When you create a volume, it has an alias only if the group-wide default
is to use the volume name as the alias.
Otherwise, the volume does not have an alias.
1. Click
Volumes in the lower-left panel, then expand Volumes in the far-left tree, then select the volume name,
then click
Modify settings, and then click the Advanced tab.
2. In the Modify volume settings – Advanced dialog box, specify a
volume alias in the Public alias field.
Like its name, the volume alias can contain up to 63 alphanumeric characters, including periods, hyphens, and
colons.
3. Click
OK.
Modifying the administrator for a volume
1. Click Volumes in the lower-left panel, then expand Volumes in the far-left tree, then select the volume name,
then click the
Modify settings, and then click the General tab.
2. In the Modify volume settings – General dialog box, change the
name of the administrator or select none in
the
Volume administrator field.
3. Click OK.
Setting a volume offline or online
By default, when you create a volume, the group sets the volume online. An iSCSI initiator can only discover or
connect to an online volume. To make a volume inaccessible to iSCSI initiators, set the volume offline; the group
closes all current iSCSI connections to the volume.
Requirement: To
set a volume online, each member that contains volume data must be online.
To set a volume online, click
Volumes in the lower-left panel, then expand Volumes in the far-left tree, then select
the volume name, and then click
Set volume online.
To set a volume offline:
1. Click
Volumes in the lower-left panel, then expand Volumes in the far-left tree, then select the volume name,
and then click
Set volume offline.
2. Confirm that you want to set the volume offline.