Creating a virtual disk–Introduction: Panel help

You can use the Create Virtual Disk wizard in the SAN Volume Controller Console to create both sequential and striped virtual disks (VDisks).

A virtual disk (VDisk) is a logical disk that the cluster presents to the storage area network (SAN).

You can create a maximum of 2048 sequential or striped VDisks for each I/O group at one time.

To learn more about VDisks, click View Tutorial to launch the Using virtual disks e-Learning module that explains different types of VDisks, space-efficient VDisks, VDisk mirroring, and other concepts that are related to VDisks.

The wizard takes you through the following steps to create a VDisk:

Select an I/O group and preferred node
Set attributes for the VDisk
Set space-efficient settings
Select an MDisk group, MDisks, and extent size
Name the VDisk
Verify attributes

Actions

The following actions are available:

Next: Click this button after you have completed this panel.
Cancel: Click this button to exit this wizard without creating a VDisk.