AX100-Series - Installing a Fibre Channel Storage System with a Direct Connection to a Solaris Server
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Configuring an Existing Storage System
Configure an Existing Storage System
1. Locate your completed storage-system configuration planning
worksheet so you can refer to it in the steps that follow.
2. If you need additional disk pools for virtual disks for the server,
create one or more disk pools.
A disk pool is a set of disks, all with the same capacity and redundancy,
on which you create one or more virtual disks. A RAID 5 disk pool must
include at least three disks and a RAID 1/0 must include at least two
disks. The storage system supports a maximum of six disk pools.
To create a disk pool -
In the Navisphere Express navigation
pane, under
Manage
, click
Disk Pools
. For details on creating a
disk pool, use the Navisphere Express Help Center.
The disk modules marked 0 through 3 contain storage-system software
or reserved space according to their slot assignment.
Do not move any disk
marked 0 through 3 from its assigned slot
. Remove it only to replace the disk
module. Part of the space on these disks is reserved or preloaded with
system data, and as a result, is not available for your data. If you combine
operating system disks in a disk pool with other disks, each of the other
disks loses space for your data equal to the system data space on an
operating system disk.
3. If you need additional virtual disks for the server, create one or
more virtual disks on the disk pools.
Each disk pool supports a maximum of 128 virtual disks.
To create a virtual disk -
In the Navisphere Express navigation
pane, under
Manage
, click
Virtual Disks
. For details on creating
a virtual disk, use the Navisphere Express Help Center.
4. Assign one or more virtual disks to the server.
To send data to or receive data from the virtual disks, you must assign
the virtual disks to a server.
To assign a virtual disk to a server -
In the Navisphere Express
navigation pane, under
Manage
, click
Virtual Disks
.
For details on assigning a virtual disk to a server, use the
Navisphere Express Help Center.
