User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Getting Started
- Start Using Your ReadyNAS System
- Additional Documentation
- Supported ReadyNAS Systems
- Supported Operating Systems
- Supported Browsers
- Diskless Systems
- Basic Installation
- Upgrade Pre-6.2 ReadyNAS Firmware for Use With ReadyCLOUD
- Discover and Set Up Your ReadyNAS Using ReadyCLOUD
- Local Setup Wizard
- Admin Page
- Access the Local Admin Page
- Register Your System
- Five Levels of Protection
- The ReadyNAS Community
- Safe Mode
- 2. Volume Configuration
- Basic Volume and RAID Concepts
- ReadyTIER, Tiers, Data, and Metadata
- Manage Volumes
- Change RAID Mode
- View the Status of a Volume
- Configure the Checksum Function
- Format Disks
- Create and Encrypt a Volume
- Delete a Volume
- Name a USB Drive
- Expand Storage Capacity
- Add Protection to a Volume
- Add Protection to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Add a Group to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Delete a RAID Group
- Use the Volume Management Wizard to Create a Volume
- Add a Tier to a Volume
- Enable or Disable Quotas on Volumes
- Maintain Volumes
- 3. Shares
- 4. LUNs
- 5. Snapshots
- 6. Users and Groups
- 7. Use Cloud Services
- 8. System Settings
- 9. System Power
- 10. Install and Manage Apps
- 11. System Monitoring
- 12. System Maintenance
- 13. Backup and Recovery
If more drives than the minimum necessary for the selected RAID level are available,
the Number of RAID Groups, Number of drives for RAID Group, and Remaining
drives allocated to Global Spare fields are active. You can chose to organize the
volume with RAID groups, or assign disks to the global spares pool, or a combination
of the two.
7. Click the Next button.
8.
(Optional) Select the Encryption check box, and select one of the following options:
•
USB to store key
•
Send key by Email
9. Click the Create button.
The New Volume window closes and the ReadyNAS starts to build the new volume
(resync the drives).
Add a Tier to a Volume
You can use ReadyTIER to add SSD drives to an existing volume as a tier. ReadyNAS
OS automatically uses a tier for volume metadata. With some workloads, this can improve
filesystem performance.
Depending on the RAID setting of the volume, a minimum number of disks are required
to add a tier. The metadata tier disks need not be the same size as the data disks. You
can estimate the size needed by pointing tor the icon of the volume and checking the
volume metadata allocation.
Software Manual47Volume Configuration
ReadyNAS OS 6.10