5
Building Your Storage Space
Follow the instructions in this section to choose a management system, log in to each system in your
storage space, and create logical drives. (For more information, see
Understanding Logical Drives
on
page 51.)
Note: Before beginning the tasks in this chapter, ensure that maxView Storage
Manager is installed on every system that will be part of your storage space.
Overview
To build your storage space, complete these steps:
1. Choose at least one management system (see
Choosing a Management System
on page 34).
2. Start and log in to maxView Storage Manager on the management system (see
Starting maxView
Storage Manager and Logging In
on page 27).
3. Start maxView Storage Manager or the Agent on all other systems (see
Starting maxView Storage
Manager on Remote Systems
on page 35).
4. Log in to all other systems from the management system (see
Logging into Remote Systems from
the Local System
on page 37).
5. Create logical drives for all systems in your storage space (see
Creating Logical Drives
on page 38).
As your storage requirements change, you can add systems, controllers, and disk drives, then modify
the logical drives in your storage space by following the instructions in
Modifying Your Storage Space
on page 51.
Choosing a Management System
You must designate at least one system as a management system, a system from which you will manage
the storage on all systems in your storage space.
The management system can be any system on your network that has a video monitor and can run the
full maxView Storage Manager application.
‘Local’ or ‘Remote’?
Whenever you're working in maxView Storage Manager, the system that you're working on is the local
system. All other systems in your storage space are remote systems. ‘Local’ and ‘remote’ are relative
terms, as shown in the following figure—when you are working on system A (local system), system B is
a remote system; when you are working on system B (local system), system A is a remote system.
For the purposes of this guide, the ‘local system’ is the management system.
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