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Next, the page will be reloaded, and status field will show your units as “in use”
and with new group e.g. “vg0”. The Volume Group is the equivalent of a physical
disk from the system point of view. It is also possible to combine two (or more)
units into one Volume Group by choosing one of actually existing groups like
“vg0”, or by choosing “new” option, which will create new group “vg1” after
using “add” button.
This function helps find disks in cage in your iSCSI server.
If you connect hard drives to hardware RAID controller then you may not be able
to determine which unit is which disk using S.M.A.R.T. tool or hardware RAID
management tool (depends on manufacturer of RAID controller).
When you click on "start" button then appropriate disk will start reading and you
can determine which disk is it by watching "disk-activity LEDs". For proper
operation of this function there should be no other activity on hard drives.
Localization will stop automatically after one minute if you will not stop it
manually (by unsetting appropriate checkbox and hitting apply button).
Using this function during normal operation is highly not recommended
and will cause slowing down your server.
When the added unit is integrated, it cannot be remove in Web
Interface. You need to use extended tools in console.
You can only add units with capacity greater than 5 GB, smaller units
are not supported.
Here listed units are assigned to current volume group.
Using this function you can create new iSCSI target volumes inside one Volume
Group. The iSCSI Volume is the equivalent of partitions, which are available for
client stations. You can increase capacity of existing Logical Volume.