Adding Luns To Powervault Nx3500 - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

The procedure for expanding the PowerVault NX3500 storage capacity
involves the following steps.
1 Creating Disk Groups:
Create a Disk Group from the unconfirmed capacity on the MD storage
array that is providing storage to the PowerVault NX3500. See "Creating
Disk Groups" on page 37.
2 Creating Virtual Disks
Create an even number of Virtual Disks ensuring that the total number of
virtual disks that will be assigned (including those already assigned) to the
PowerVault NX3500 does not exceed 16. See "Creating Virtual Disks" on
page 39.
3 Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings
Map the virtual disks to the Host Group created for the PowerVault
NX3500 controllers. See "Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings" on
page 42.

4 Adding LUNs to PowerVault NX3500.

Adding LUNs to PowerVault NX3500
The new Virtual Disks/LUNs that have been allocated to PowerVault NX3500
host group in MDSM, are now ready to be discovered using the NAS
Manager.
1 Launch the NAS Manager on your Management Station and log in as
admin.
2 Click System ManagementMaintenanceAdd LUNs.
The page may take a few minutes to display. It will run iSCSI discovery for
all Virtual Disks/LUNs allocated to the PowerVault NX3500 system.
Each LUN can be identified using its world-wide name. In the NAS
Manager, the world-wide name of a LUN is prefixed by Dell DSFS. The
unique set of numbers and characters following the prefix is the world-
wide name.
On the Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM), check that the proper
virtual disks are assigned to the PowerVault NX3500 by clicking the
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Maintaining the PowerVault NX3500