Dell PS Series, Installation And Setup Manual

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Installation and Setup Storage Allocation
4–2
Optionally, you can set aside space for volume snapshots or configure a volume
with thin provisioning. However, thin provisioning is not appropriate for all
storage environments. See the PS Series Group Administration manual for
information about advanced volume functionality.
Using the CLI to Create a Volume
1. Log in to the group.
Use one of these methods to connect to the group:
• Serial connection to a member. See Step 4: Set Up a Serial Connection to
the Array on page 2-12.
• Telnet or ssh connection to the group IP address.
At the login prompt, enter the
grpadmin
account name and the password that
you specified when creating the group.
2. At the Group Manager command prompt, use the following command to
create the volume:
volume create volume_name size [GB]
Specify the volume name and size (the default unit of measure is megabytes).
3. Use the following command to create an access control record for the volume:
volume select volume_name access create access_control
The
access_control
parameter can be one or more of the following:
•
initiator initiator_name
•
ipaddress ip_address
You can create a maximum of 16 access control records for a volume.
The following example creates a 50 GB volume and one access control record.
Only a computer with the specified initiator name will be able to access the
volume.
group1> volume create staff1 50GB
group1> volume select staff1 access create initiator \
iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:WIN2008Server.company.com