Assigning The New Devices To Volumes - HP XP1024 System Configuration Manual

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• Create New Mirror. This option means you are making the partition capable
of being part of a mirror group. You do not actually create the group until
you add another mirrored partition to the partition you are creating.
• Existing Mirror Group. (If you select this option, also select the ID of the
mirrored partition.) This shows a list of existing mirror groups that are
compatible in data area size. This option lets you add this new partition to
one of the mirror groups in the list.
9.
Select a label for the partition (optional).
10.
Click OK.
NetWare 6.5
1.
Enter NSSMU at the server console
2.
In the main menu, select "Partitions."
3.
Press Insert, then select a device where you want to create a partition.
4.
Select "NSS" as the partition type.
5.
Enter the size of the partition in bytes (B), kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), or
gigabytes (GB) and click OK.

Assigning the new devices to volumes

A volume can span as many as 32 devices, so you can assign more than one device to
a volume. The addition of new volumes to the NetWare server may require a memory
upgrade. See the NetWare documentation or contact Novell customer support.
NetWare 5.x
1.
On the Installation Option screen, click Volume options and press ENTER to display
the volume options.
The existing volumes are listed by volume name, and the volume options are
displayed at the bottom of the screen.
2.
Execute the "Add/View/Modify volume segments" command by pressing the Ins
or F3 key.
The Segment List of Volume Disk screen displays the existing devices by device
number. The Volume assignment column displays "(free space)" for each device that
is not yet assigned to a volume.
3.
Execute the "Make a volume assignment" command as follows: move the cursor
to the line containing the desired device, then move the cursor onto "(free space)"
in the Volume assignment column, and press ENTER.
4.
When the "What do you want to do with this free segment?" message appears,
select the desired option, and press ENTER. If you selected "Make this segment
part of another volume," select the volume you want to add this segment to, and
press ENTER.
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