Dell MD3600f, MD3620F owner manual Locating a Disk Group, Creating Virtual Disks

Locating a Disk Group

You can physically locate and identify all of the physical disks that comprise a selected disk group. An LED blinks on each physical disk in the disk group.

To locate a disk group:

1In the AMW, select the Logical tab.

2Select the appropriate disk group and from the toolbar select Disk Group→ Blink

The LEDs for the selected disk group blink.

3After locating the disk group, click OK. The LEDs stop blinking.

4If the LEDs for the disk group do not stop blinking, from the toolbar in AMW, select Storage Array→ Blink→ Stop All Indications.

If the LEDs successfully stop blinking, a confirmation message appears.

5Click OK.

Creating Virtual Disks

Keep these important guidelines in mind when you create a virtual disk:

•Many hosts can have 256 logical unit numbers (LUNs) mapped per storage partition, but the number varies per operating system.

•After you create one or more virtual disks and assign a mapping, you must register the virtual disk with the operating system. In addition, you must ensure that the host recognizes the mapping between the physical storage array name and the virtual disk name. Depending on the operating system, run the host-based utilities, hot_add and SMdevices.

•If the storage array contains physical disks with different media types or different interface types, multiple Unconfigured Capacity nodes may appear in the Logical pane of the Logical tab. Each physical disk type has an associated Unconfigured Capacity node if unassigned physical disks are available in the expansion enclosure.

•You cannot create a disk group and subsequent virtual disk from different physical disk technology types. Each physical disk that comprises the disk group must be of the same physical disk type.

NOTE: Ensure that you create disk groups before creating virtual disks.

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