Hardware manual

Group Administration Basic volume operations
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To create a standard volume:
1. Click
Volumes in the lower-left panel and then click Create volume.
2. In the Create Volume – Volume Settings dialog box, specify:
•
Volume name
• Optional volume description
• Storage pool
3. Click
Next.
4. In the Create Volume – Space dialog box, specify:
• Reported volume size and the unit of measure.
• Whether to use thin provisioning on the volume. See About thin provisioning.
The values in the Pool Space table depend on the reported size and thin provisioning setting. If creati
ng the
volume exceeds the capacity of the pool, the table cell showing free pool space displays a negative value.
If you enable thin provisioning, the Create Volume – Space dialog
box allows you to adjust the default
settings for the following thin-provisioned volume attributes, which are based on a percentage of the
reported size:
– Minimum volume reserve
– In-use space warning threshold
– Maximum in-use space
• Snapshot reserve (optional), based on a percentage of the volume reserve.
5. Click
Next.
6. In the Create Volume – iSCSI Access dialog box, specify:
• Conditions a computer must match to connect to the volume and its snapshots.
Specify a CHAP user name,
IP address, or iSCSI initiator name. This information generates an access control record that applies to the
volume and its snapshots. See About iSCSI target access controls on page 8
-1.
• Permission for the volume, either read-write or read-only
.
• Whether to allow or disallow (default) access to t
he volume and its snapshots by initiators with different
iSCSI qualified names (IQNs). See Multi-host access to targets on page 8
-6.
7. In the Create Volume – Summary dialog box, review the volum
e configuration. If the configuration is correct,
click
Finish. Click Back to make changes.
To display the new volume, expand
Volumes in the far-left panel and select the name of the new volume.
Displaying volumes
To display all the volumes in a group, click Volumes in the lower-left panel and then Volumes in the far-left tree.