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Configuring Your Controller
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Figure 40. Auto-Carve policy in 3BM
2 Create a new unit or migrate an existing unit to include the drives you
want to use.
If the combined capacity of the drives exceeds the carve size, a number of
volumes will be created.
3 Verify the creation of the volumes.
In 3DM 2, the number of volumes is shown on the Unit Details page.
4 Verify that the volumes appear in the operating system. They will appear
as additional drives.
Notes:
• If you are configuring a unit for primary storage and it will be greater than 2 TB,
be sure to enable the auto-carve policy before creating the unit.
• When volumes have been created through auto-carving, they cannot be
deleted except by deleting the unit.
• If you create a bootable unit that has multiple volumes, the first volume can be
used as the boot device.
• Changing the auto-carve policy does not affect existing units.
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