User Guide
32 Novell Storage Services Administration Guide
Novell Storage Services Administration Guide
103-000141-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Creating a Logical Volume
After creating storage pools, you can create any number of logical volumes for
the storage pools according to the physical space available. When you create
a logical volume, you can either assign it a space or allow it to expand to the
pool size.
The size of a single volume cannot exceed the size of a storage pool. However,
the combined sizes of multiple volumes can exceed the size of the storage
pool. This is called overbooking. For example, you might have an 800 MB
storage pool with eight volumes set at 100 MB each. That is the maximum
amount of space you have in the pool. To overbook the pool, you can add
volumes or increase the size of existing volumes knowing that not all the
volumes in the storage pool will fill up. If the volumes fill up, you need to add
more disk space.
NSS recognizes DOS, Macintosh*, UNIX*, and long name spaces.
1 From ConsoleOne, open the tree you want.
2 Right-click on the server object and select Properties.
3 Click Media > NSS Logical Volumes > New.
4 Enter a name for the volume and click Next.
5 Select the storage pool where you want to store the unpartitioned space or
NSS partitioned space.
If you select unpartitioned space, NSS creates an NSS partition, then the
storage pool, then the volume.
6 Do one of the following:
Enter a quota size for the volume if you want to limit the size of the
volume.
Mark “Allow volume quota to grow to the pool size” if you want the
volume expand to the size of the pool.
7 Click Next.
8 Select the attribute settings you want for the new logical volume from the
following list:
Backup. Indicates if the volume should be backed up. Set this flag if
the volume contains data you want to back up. Clear this flag if the
volume is empty or if backing up the data is unnecessary. This
backup option is separate from the third-party backup vendor you