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Matrix Server can use either one or three membership partitions. To

ensure that a membership partition is always available, we strongly

recommend that you select three partitions.

To create a membership partition, click Add. The Add Membership

Partition window then lists all of the disks or LUNs that it can access.

Select a disk or LUN for the first membership partition.

All of the available partitions on that disk or LUN then appear in the

bottom of the window. Select one of these partitions and click Add.

(The minimum size for a membership partition is 1 GB.) Repeat this

procedure to select two more membership partitions. We recommend

that the partitions be on different disks.

When selecting partitions for use as membership partitions, be sure

that they do not contain any needed data. When the membership

partitions are created, any existing data will be erased.

2. Snapshot configuration. Matrix Server supports hardware array-

based snapshots. If you want to use this capability, you will need to

configure the snapshot method.