Chapter 4 Managing Volumes - D-Link DSN-500 Software User's Manual

Chapter 4 Managing Volumes

This chapter describes how to manage volumes on an xStack Storage. A volume is a set of
storage blocks organized and presented for use by a customer's server (an iSCSI initiator
node). The iSCSI initiator node sees the volume as a contiguous series of numbered blocks,
called Virtual Logical Block Numbers (VLBNs), in the same way that it would see the storage
space on a single disk drive. The xStack Storage builds a volume from extents. A volume
typically consists of extents from several drives.
Volumes are managed in the Volume View. Volume View is the initial view that appears
when you log in to the xStack Storage Management Center. If you are in a different console
view, you can display the Volume View by performing any of the following steps:
Clicking Volume on the View menu.
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Clicking an xStack Storage IP address in the View panel.
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Clicking the Volume View button on the toolbar:
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The topics covered in this chapter are:
Section 4.1, Understanding the Volume View
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Section 4.2, Creating Volumes
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Section 4.3, Performing Volume Actions
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Section 4.4, Using the Detail Tabs
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Section 4.5 Removing iSCSI Initiators
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