Virtualizing Storage Within Your Network - Linksys NSS6000 Series Administrator's Manual

Configuring your Storage

Virtualizing Storage within your Network

NOTE
STEP 5
Virtualizing Storage within your Network
NOTE
Linksys Small Business NSS4000 and NSS6000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide
You can install the drives into the new NSS in any order. You do not need to install
them in the same order or slots that they were installed in the original NSS.
When all the disk drives are installed, power up the NSS.
The NSS virtualization feature lets you create storage physically located on other
network NSS units into one logical storage unit. The recommended network
configuration for using virtualization is to use an NSS6000 series to operate as the
"master" storage device (the "slave" devices can either be NSS6000, NSS4000,
NSS3000, or NSS2000 series devices). This configuration setup means that you
can export storage (must be an unused disk drive or configured array) from a slave
NSS and then import the storage into the master NSS. The supported RAID level
for virtualized storage is JBOD (although the JBOD can consist of concatenated
exported arrays).
After you configure a virtual RAID, you cannot migrate the disks used for that RAID
to another NSS. You also cannot export storage from a device that uses
imported storage.
4
49