Creating a Disk Pool

Procedure

1. Choose Cluster > Storage Pool.
2. Click the name of the desired 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. Select the nodes and disks for creating the disk pool and click OK.
7. Confirm your operation as prompted.
   

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