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Striping: If you want this volume to use striping, check the “Enable

striping” checkbox and then select the size of the stripe. Although the

default stripe size of 64KB should be adequate for most applications and

hardware configurations, you may need to use a different stripe size for

your particular circumstances.

Click either OK or APPLY to create the volume. (APPLY keeps the

window open, allowing you to create additional dynamic volumes.)

When the dynamic volume has been created, the PolyServe Management

Console reports the psv name assigned to the volume. On the

Management Console, filesystems are identified with the psv name of the

dynamic volume on which they are located, as shown below.

To create a dynamic volume from the command line, use the following

command:

mx dynvolume create [--stripesize <4KB-64MB>]

<subDeviceName,subDeviceName,...>

The following command lists the available subdevices:

mx dynvolume showcreateopt

Dynamic Volume Properties

To see the configuration for a dynamic volume, select Storage > Dynamic

Volume > Volume Properties and then choose the volume that you want

to view. If a filesystem is associated with the volume, the Volume

Properties window shows information for both the dynamic volume and

the filesystem.