This section will guide you through the process of creating a volume on a dynamic disk group for a campus cluster.
Use the following procedure to create dynamic volumes for a campus cluster.
Note: |
When assigning drive letters to volumes, ensure that the drive letters that you assign are available on all nodes. |
To create dynamic volumes
To connect to the local system, select localhost. Provide the user name, password, and domain if prompted.
You can right-click the disk group you have just created.
Click Next.
Volume name |
Specify a name for the volume. The name is limited to 18 ASCII characters and cannot contain spaces or forward or backward slashes. |
Size |
Specify a size for the volume. If you click Max Size, the Size box shows the maximum possible volume size for that layout in the dynamic disk group. |
Layout |
Ensure that the Mirrored checkbox is selected. Select either the Concatenated or Striped layout type. If you are creating a striped volume, the Columns and Stripe unit size boxes need to have entries. Defaults are provided. In addition, click the Stripe across checkbox and select Ports from the drop-down list. |
Mirror Info |
Click Mirror across and select Enclosures from the drop-down list. When creating a site separated volume, as required for campus clusters, the number of mirrors must correspond to the number of sites. If needed, you can add more mirrors after creating the volume. |
Enable logging |
Verify that this option is not selected. |
Click Next.
To assign a drive letter, select Assign a Drive Letter, and choose a drive letter.
To mount the volume as a folder, select Mount as an empty NTFS folder, and click Browse to locate an empty folder on the shared disk.
Click Next.
Make sure the Format this volume checkbox is checked and select NTFS.
Select an allocation size or accept the default.
The file system label is optional. SFW makes the volume name the file system label.
Select Perform a quick format if you want to save time.
Select Enable file and folder compression to save disk space.
Note that compression consumes system resources and performs encryption and decryption, which may result in reduced system performance.
Click Next.