Preparing Disks for NMV Pools

For NMVs, decide which disks will be used in NMV pools. These disks must be online, initialized in GPT layout, unallocated basic disks. Windows dynamic disks cannot be used and no partitions of any kind can exist on the disk as the whole LUN is used. In SANmelody software, it is possible to create different pools for different purposes, just remember that a minimum of one disk per pool must be used.

Also see About Network Managed Volumes for basic information.

After disks are under the control of SANmelody, the disks will be marked as Unknown and Unreadable in Windows Disk Management and must be controlled and monitored in SANmelody software.

To Prepare Disks for Use in NMV Pools:

  1. In Windows Computer Management, open System Tools>Device Manager.

  2. In the right pane, select Disk Drives, and choose Scan for Hardware Changes from the context menu. Ensure that all disks connected to the storage server are discovered.
    SANmelody devmgr(cm) Preparing Disks for NMV Pools

  3. In Windows Computer Management, open Storage>Disk Management.

  4. Ensure that all the disks that you will be using in your pools are online, initialized in GPT layout, and unallocated raw disks.
     NOTE: If you wish to use a disk which was previously partitioned, you must remove all partitions before the disk can be used in an NMV pool. The entire disk will be managed. Be aware that removing partitions will destroy the existing data on the disk.
    In the example below, Disks 1 and 2 (unallocated raw disks) will be used in an NMV pool.
    SANmelody diskmgmt(cm)1 Preparing Disks for NMV Pools

  5. These instructions are performed locally; if you have two storage servers in your configuration follow these steps on both servers.

 

Related topic:

Making Protected Partition-based Disks Available for NMV Pools

 

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Preparing Disks for NMV Pools