Creating Virtual Disks From Pools - Compaq N2400 - TaskSmart - 1 GB RAM Administration Manual

Creating Virtual Disks from Pools

Virtual disks are the storage entities that the operating system recognizes as
drives, and upon which your data is placed. Because virtual disks are created
from pools, they can be made exactly the size that you need them to be. From
a pool, you may wish to create three separate virtual disks that exactly match
the space needs of the users or groups requesting space, or you may create a
single, large virtual disk from a pool. A limitation is that virtual disks may not
"span" pools—they must be created from a single pool.
NOTE: Your pool has a "reserved" area for snapshot creation. A snapshot is a real-time
copy of data on a virtual disk.
NOTE: By default, 30 percent of your pool space is devoted to snapshot reserves.
Depending on how fast your data changes and the number of snapshots that you keep,
you may need more or less space devoted to snapshots.
Procedure:
1. In the Snapshot Manager interface, right-click on a pool, and select New
Virtual Disk.
Figure 6-9. Snapshot Manager interface
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