Fg Storage Pool With Dax Device - Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node User Manual

Configuring the System using the VxFlex OS GUI
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Procedure
1. Log in to the VxFlex OS GUI as an admin user.
2. Go to Backend
>
3. Expand the SDSs in the Protection Domains.
4. In the Accelerated On column, find the FG Storage Pool that contains the DAX
devices you discovered in the previous task and recorded in the NVDIMM
information table.
For example, if you discovered DAX device name dax0.0, in the Accelerated On
column look for /dev/dax0.0.
In the following image, /dev/dax0.0 is located in FG Storage Pool sp2_FG. It is
also located in Acceleration Pool accp_for_sp2_NVDIMM.
Figure 40 FG Storage Pool with DAX device
5. Record the name of the FG Storage Pool, the Acceleration Pool, the storage
devices, and the DAX devices in the relevant rows in the NVDIMM information
table.
In the above example, the information you need to record is:
Storage Pool: sp2_FG
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Acceleration Pool: accp_for_sp2_NVDIMM
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Storage devices: /dev/sdb, dev/sdc
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Acceleration devices: /dev/dax0.0, /dev/dax1.0.
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6. Remove the storage devices you identified in the previous step from the
relevant Storage Pool:
a. Navigate to Backend
devices you identified in the previous step.
Storage Acceleration view.
>
Devices view and find the SDS with the storage
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