Formatting The Logical Drives - IBM totalstorage 326 User Reference

Formatting the logical drives

Note the following restrictions when formatting logical drives:
1. Disk 0 (the internal hard disk drive) is an 18-GB drive, preformatted into two
2. Do not upgrade any disks to dynamic. Only basic disks are supported for
3. Do not use drive letter F as a volume drive letter. This drive letter is reserved for
Using the preset factory configuration
1. After rebooting, open IBM NAS Admin and select Disk Management (Local), in
2. At the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard, click Cancel.
3. Right-click the Unknown disk on the bottom right, and select Write Signature.
4. Check all the boxes to write a Disk Signature to all disks that will be accessed
5. On the unformatted drive:
6. Format all other drives, but do not enable compression. Use all space available
At this point, you have completed shared-storage setup. You can now continue with
"Chapter 5. Completing networking, clustering, and storage access setup" on
page 37.
Customizing the factory configuration
1. After rebooting, open IBM NAS Admin and select Disk Management (Local) in
2. The Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard opens. Click Cancel.
3. Right-click Disk 1 and select Write Signature.
4. Write Signature to all disks that will be accessed by the Cluster Server (all disks
5. On the Quorum drive:
list partition displays information about each partition on the in-focus disk.
list volume displays information about each volume in the computer.
partitions: a 6-GB partition (label System, drive letter C) and a 12-GB partition
(label MAINTENANCE, drive letter D). Do not reformat or repartition these
partitions. Doing so could delete important data and seriously impair the
functioning of your system.
clustering. In addition, all partitions used for clustering must be primary
partitions.
Persistent Storage Manager (PSM)-based backup using NAS Backup Assistant.
the Storage folder.
by the Cluster Server (all disks in the view).
a. Right-click and select Create Partition and click Next.
b. Select Primary Partition and click Next.
c. Select the entire disk size and click Next (preferred method).
d. Choose a drive letter for this volume.
e. Enter the following properties:
v File System of NTFS
v Volume Label of Drive_x, where x is the letter of this volume.
Note: For the Quorum drive, label the volume Quorum Disk.
f. Click Next.
Do not enable disk compression. Select Finish.
for each drive for each logical drive assigned by the operating system.
the Storage folder.
in view).
a. Right-click and select Create Partition and click Next.
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