Assigning The New Devices To Volumes - HP XP20000/XP24000 Configuration Manual

1 1. Select the disk to be included in the pool, and click Next.
12. On the Create Pool – Attribute Information screen, check Activate on Creation to make the
new pool active, and then click Finish.
13. Select a label for the partition (optional).
14. 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 then 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 might require a memory upgrade. See the
NetWare documentation or contact Novell customer support.
NetWare 5.x
1. On the Available Disk Options screen, click NetWare 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:
1. Move the cursor to the line containing the desired device.
2. Move the cursor onto (free space) in the Volume assignment column.
3. Press Enter.
4. When the What do you want to do with this free segment? message appears,
select an option, and press Enter. If you selected Make this segment part of another
volume, select the volume to add this segment to, and then press Enter.
5. In the Disk Segment Parameters screen, enter the new volume name (or verify the selected
volume), and enter the disk segment size. The segment size is the same as the partition size
entered during disk partitioning.
6. Press F10 to save the new volume information and return to the Volume Disk Segment List
screen.
7. On the Volume Disk Segment List screen, press F10 to save the new volume information and
return to the volume list.
8. Repeat Step 1–Step 7
you are finished assigning new devices to volumes, press Esc to save your volume changes.
9. When the confirmation message appears, click Yes and then press Enter to save all changes
and return to the Installation Option screen.
46 Novell NetWare
until you have assigned all new disk array devices to volumes. When