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Enter Volume Name
In the Enter Volume Name field, enter a name for your NAS Volume. The NAS Volume
Name must be alphanumeric, not have any spaces and be between one and 63 characters
in length.
Enter Volume Size
In the Enter Volume Size field, enter the size that you want to use for your NAS Volume.
The field is measured in Gigabytes GB.
Select Thin or Exact Provisioning
Select the type of provisioning that you want to use.
By default, Exact Provisioning is selected because all the drive bays are typically
shipped occupied. Thin Provisioning is only useful if you plan to add hard disk drives to
your current configuration.
If you select Thin, the volume can be assigned a size greater than the actual physical size
of the storage device. For example, if the storage device has an actual physical size of
500 GB, the user can assign a size of up to 256 TB per box. Based on the consumption of
the storage device's physical capacity, more physical drive capacity can be added later as
desired.
Thin Provisioning is mentioned here in the event you decide to use this unit as a head
unit with a JBOD attached.
If you select Exact, the volume size cannot exceed the actual physical space available in
the storage device.
It is recommended to leave 20% of the physical space free for snapshots.
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