Creating Disk Groups - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

This section provides the steps necessary to configure the host group and
virtual disks that are required for the PowerVault NX3500 system. For
additional information regarding a task such as creating virtual disks, see the
PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager Help or the Dell PowerVault
MD3xx0i Owner's Manual at support.dell.com/manuals.
Correctly preparing the PowerVault Modular Disk (MD) storage array is
critical for successfully configuring your NAS solution.
Complete the following tasks using PowerVault Modular Disk Storage
Manager (MDSM) as part of preparing your MD storage array.
NOTE:
PowerVault MDSM is available on the Resource CD that shipped with your
storage array.
• Create a disk group for each virtual disk
• Create a virtual disk in each disk group
• Create a host-group
• Map the virtual disks to the host group
NOTE:
See the MD storage array documentation at support.dell.com/manuals.
NOTE:
Additional configuration is required after completing the steps in the
PowerVault Configuration Utility. Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
(CHAP) must be disabled on the PowerVault MD3
array must be configured for two logical SANs.

Creating Disk Groups

To create disk groups:
NOTE:
Create a minimum of
dedicated to the NAS storage pool.
1 Install and launch the MDSM software on the management station.
2 Target the MD storage array you plan to use for your NAS storage.
See the Dell PowerVault MD3xx0i storage arrays deployment guide at
support.dell.com/manuals.
3 Choose one of the following methods to start the Create Disk Group
Wizard and proceed to step 4:
– To create a disk group from unconfigured capacity in the storage array:
On the Logical tab, select Unconfigured Capacity.
a
two disk groups
, which will each house a virtual disk
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