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132 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter
3. Creates five standard volumes and five unprotected volumes, each containing
18,484 cylinders (equivalent to 8.46 GB) as follows:
Adds five standard devices to the configuration as follows:
a. In the No. Volumes to create field, enters 5.
b. For the size, enters 18484 Cylinders (which is equivalent to 8.46 GB size).
c. For configuration, selects Mirror-2 devices.
d. Clicks Add to add the configuration to the Requested Configuration table. At
the bottom of the Requested Configuration table, the Configuration Total
shows how much space will be used to create the configuration.
4. Adds five unprotected devices to the configuration (for use as BCVs) as follows:
a. In the No. Volumes to create field, enters 5.
b. For the size, enters 18484 Cylinders (which is equivalent to 8.46 GB size).
c. For configuration, selects UNPROTECTED, which automatically disables SAVE
device type.
d. Clicks Add to add the configuration to the Requested Configuration table. At
the bottom of the Requested Configuration table, the Configuration Total
shows how much space will be used to create the configuration.
5. Clicks Execute to run the proposed configuration.
It takes several minutes to create the devices. When the execution steps have
completed, the administrator is prompted to close the window.
6. In the Console tree, expands the Symmetrix array and expands the folders
Unmapped Devices, Standard Devices.
The 10 devices that were just created appear at the bottom of the list.
7. Selects the devices and drags them into the Properties view to verify that there
are five two-way mirrored and five unprotected devices.
Figure 115 on page 133 shows the 10 devices: five two-way mirrored devices and
five unprotected devices.