SANRAD V-Switch manual LUN Carving, Volume Configuration

6

IN THIS

CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION TO

VOLUME

CONFIGURATION

IDENTIFYING

AVAILABLE STORAGE

DEVICES

CREATING A

TRANSPARENT

VOLUME

CREATING A SUBDISK

(LUN CARVING)

CREATING A SIMPLE VOLUME

CREATING A

CONCATENATED

VOLUME

CREATING A STRIPED VOLUME

CREATING A

MIRRORED VOLUME

CREATING A RAID 10

AND RAID 0+1

Volume Configuration

After you have configured the V-Switch general parameters, you can begin defining the storage topology using the Volume Manager.

Using the Volume Manager, you can create subdisks on physical disk storage devices or leave the physical disk as is. These physical volumes can then be used to create the following types of virtual volumes:

Transparent

Simple

Concatenated

Striped

Mirrored

RAID 10 and 0+1

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