Chapter 6 — Configuring Logical Volumes
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O
VERVIEW
OF
L
OGICAL
V
OLUMES
, F
OLDERS
,
AND
S
HARES
Logical volumes, folders, and shares are the logical components used to
interact with the data storage capacity provided by the nTier500.
Logical Volumes
RAID groups a set of physical drives together to create a virtual drive that
the operating system treats as a single physical drive. This virtual drive is
referred to as a logical volume.
The nTier500 ships with all of its drives pre-configured as a single RAID 6
logical volume formatted with the NTFS file system. In BlueScale, this type
of logical volume is referred to as a Network Attached Storage (NAS)
volume. The pre-configured NAS volume lets you put the nTier500 into
production immediately after you create NFS and/or CIFS folders.
If you want to install an application that requires an unformatted (RAW)
logical volume (for example, Microsoft Data Protection Manager), you can
delete or convert the existing NAS volume (see
Deleting a Logical Volume
on page 104
). After deleting the NAS volume, you can create an
unformatted volume that can be used for other purposes (see
Create a New
RAW (Unformatted) Volume on page 110
).
Notes:
Depending on the number of drives installed, you can define
both NAS and RAW volumes on the same nTier500.
DPM is no longer available for purchase with the nTier500.
Refer to Microsoft’s documentation for complete installation,
configuration, and use instructions (see
Microsoft Windows
Operating System and Software on page 14
).
Figure 49
The Logical Volumes page with configuration information shown for the selected volume
Total usable capacity
for the volume
The
Show
button toggles between Show
and Hide. Selecting
Show
to expands the
page to show which drives are assigned to
the volume and the usable capacity of
each. To hide the list of drives, select
Hide
.
Summary of Contents for nTier500
Page 1: ...SpectraLogic com Spectra nTier500 Backup and Archive Appliance User Guide ...
Page 6: ...Contacting Spectra Logic 6 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 12: ...Contents 12 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 52: ...Chapter 2 Installing the nTier500 52 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 64: ...Chapter 3 Using the BlueScale Web Interface 64 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 82: ...Chapter 4 Configuring the nTier500 82 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 112: ...Chapter 6 Configuring Logical Volumes 112 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 160: ...Appendix A Service and Support 160 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 166: ...Appendix B Specifications 166 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
Page 176: ...Appendix D Tuning Gigabit Ethernet Network Performance 176 User Guide 90990030 Notes ...
