Configuring your Storage
Creating a Volume
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enter in this field due to filesystem overhead. The minimum volume size is
32 MB. Volume sizes are rounded down to the nearest 32 MB increment.
STEP 3
To encrypt the volume, select Encrypted. To create an unencrypted volume, go to
step 6.
STEP 4
Enter a password in the Password field. The password must be entered to unlock
an encrypted volume when the NSS is started up following a power interruption,
shutdown, or rebooted, or, if the volume was manually locked through the NSS
configuration interface. The password can be any alphanumeric characters (with
the exception of the ";" |", and "&"). It cannot contain any spaces and must be a
minimum of one character (no maximum).
STEP 5
Re-enter the password in the Confirm Password field.
STEP 6
Click Add.
NOTE:
Once the volume is created, you can
expand the volume but you cannot reduce its
size.
NOTE:
You can encrypt the volume only when
the volume is first created. After a volume is
created, you cannot change whether it is
encrypted or unencrypted. File transfer
performance to encrypted volumes is generally
lower than to non-encrypted volumes.
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CAUTION:
Because you need the password to
decrypt a locked volume, keep a secure
backup of the password to ensure that it is
accessible when required. There is no way to
unlock the volume without the password. (If the
password is forgotten, the only way to unlock
the volume is if a known password was saved
in a configuration file. You can then restore the
configuration, and then use that password to
unlock the volume. See Restoring the
Configuration for help on this.)
