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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.
Function: Disks Localizer
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
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.
Function “Units Assigned”
Here listed units are assigned to current volume group.
Function “iSCSI Volume Manager”
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.
