Creating a Disk Pool

Procedure

1. Choose Cluster > Cluster > Storage Pool.
2. Click the name of the desired block storage pool. On the page that is displayed, click the Disk Pool tab.
3. Click Create.

   The Create Disk Pool page is displayed.

4. Specify Disk Pool Name.
   

   • The name must be unique.
   • The name can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
   • The name contains 1 to 64 characters.

5. Set Max. Main Storage Media per Node. The value of this parameter indicates the maximum number of storage media that can be used by a single node to store user data. It determines the allocation of cache and compute resources on the node. Set this parameter based on site requirements.
6. In the Choose Node and Disk area, select the nodes and disks that are used to create the disk pool.
   

   • You can click Add and add nodes or disks on the Choose Node and Disk page that is displayed.
   • You can select one or more added nodes or disks and click Remove to remove them.

7. Click OK.
8. Confirm your operation as prompted.
   

   When Status of a disk is To be added again due to disk re-insertion, you can select it and click Re-add to Disk Pool to add it to the disk pool again.