Use the following procedure to add volumes.
Dell Technologies highly recommends giving each volume a meaningful name associated with its operational role.
Prerequisites
There must be at least three SDS nodes in the system and there must be sufficient capacity available for the volumes.
About this task
PowerFlex objects are assigned a unique ID that can be used to identify the object in CLI commands. The default name for each volume object is its ID. The ID is displayed in the Volumes list or can be obtained using a CLI query. Define each volume name according to the following rules:
Contains less than 32 characters
Contains only alphanumeric and punctuation characters
Is unique within the object type
To add one or multiple volumes, perform these steps:
Steps
On the menu bar, click
Block > Volumes.
Click
+ Create Volume.
In the
Create Volume dialog box, configure the following items:
Enter the number of volumes to be created.
If you type
1, enter a name for the volume.
If you type a number greater than 1, enter the
Volume Prefix and the
Starting Number of the volume. This number will be the first number in the series that will be appended to the volume prefix. For example, if the volume prefix is
Vol%i% and the starting number value is
100, the name of the first volume created will be Vol100, the second volume will be Vol101, and so on.
Select either
Thin (default) or
Thick provisioning options.
Enter the volume size in GB (basic allocation granularity is 8 GB).
Select a storage pool.
Click
Create.
Verify that the operation has finished and was successful, and click
Dismiss.
Next steps
To use the created volume, you must map it to at least one host. If the restricted SDC mode is enabled for the system, you must approve SDCs prior to mapping volumes to them.
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