NETGEAR EDA 500, READYNAS 716X, READYNAS 516 Manage LUNs, Default LUN Settings, Create a LUN

ReadyNAS OS 6.1

•Thick. All storage space that you specify when you create a thick LUN is allocated up front and the storage space is reserved on the volume. Snapshots, other LUNs, and shared folders on the volume cannot consume storage space that is reserved. The size of the LUN is reported as the total storage space that you specify when you create the LUN. You cannot assign more storage space than the available nonreserved storage space on the volume.

Default LUN Settings

The following table explains the default settings of a LUN. You can change these settings when you create or change the LUN.

Table 7. LUN default settings

Item	Default State
Compression	Disabled
Continuous Protection	Enabled
Interval	Daily
Provision	Thick
Access	Denied until you set permissions

Manage LUNs

From the local admin page, you can create, modify, or delete a LUN.

Create a LUN

After you create a volume (see Create and Encrypt a Volume on page 29), you can create LUNs on that volume. The following procedure describes how to create a LUN from the Shares screen. You can also create a LUN from the iSCSI screen.

Note: On ReadyNAS 102, 104, and 2120 systems, individual LUNs cannot exceed 8 TB.

To create a LUN:

1.Select Shares > Shares.

A list of shared folders and LUNs on each volume displays.

LUNs

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