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allocate enough space for worse case as the snapshot becomes unusable when its reserved space
runs out.
In our example above, we selected 50GB of the volume to be reserved for snapshots.
Specify desired volume size
After you’ve specified the above volume parameters, enter the desired volume size if you wis h to
configure a smaller volume size than the maximum displayed. The resulting volume will be
approximately the size that is specified.
In our example above, we kept the maximum size that was calculated.
Click
Apply
and wait for the instruction to reboot the system. It typically takes about 1 minute
before you are notified to reboot.
After rebooting, you will then be notified by email when the volume has been added. Use RAIDar
to reconnect to the NAS device.
►
RAID SETTINGS
After you have added a volume, you can revisit the Volume tab and click on the
RAID Settings
tab
to display the current RAID information and configuration options for the volume.
Notice the disk on channel 4 that we did not configure is listed in the Available Disks section. We
can add this disk as a hot spare by clicking on the
Make hot spare
button.