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50 Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution
Table 2-2. Creating Virtual Disks
To create virtual disks from free capacity:
1
Start the
Create Virtual Disk Wizard
.
2
On the
Logical
tab, select
Free Capacity
from the disk group you created
in the earlier steps.
3
Select
Virtual Disk
and then click
Create
.
The
Introduction (Create Virtual Disk)
window is displayed.
4
Click
Next
.
The
Specify Capacity/Name
window is displayed.
5
Select the appropriate unit for storage capacity in
Units
and enter the
capacity of the virtual disk in
New Virtual Disk Capacity
.
6
Enter a name for the virtual disk in
Virtual Disk Name (
for example,
NX3500Lun0
).
Item Supported Not supported
Number of VDs or
LUNs
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15
LUN sizes 125 GB, up to 15 TB Up to 125 GB, greater than 15 TB
NOTE: LUN pairs
should be of the same
size.
VD1: 125
GB
VD2: 125
GB
VD1:125 GB
VD2: 130 GB
VD3: 759
GB
VD4: 759
GB
VD3: 759 GB
VD4: 650 GB
VD5: 1.33
TB
VD6: 1.33
TB
VD5: 1.33 TB
VD6: 1.90 TB
Host group Single host group Multiple host group
Pair 1
Pair 1
Pair 2
Pair 2
Pair 3
Pair 3