User manual

4.2.2.1 Volumes

Users can manage, monitor, create, or delete a logical volume on this page.

Creating New Volum es

Follow the steps below to create a new volume:

1. Click "New Volume" to launch the volume creation wizard.

2. Select "Quick" (more on the "Custom" option in the following section) and click

"Next".

3. Select the enclosure unit, hard disk drive(s), RAID type and hot spare disk for the

volume to be created and click "Next".

4. Click "Finish".

5. Please note that all data on the selected hard drive(s) will be erased. Click "Yes" if

you are certain about this.

6. The new volume is created.

Note:

The hot spare disk feature is only available for RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and

RAID 10. For other RAID types, the hot spare disk field will be grayed out.

Follow the steps below to create a new, customized volume:

1. Select "Custom". Select to create a new storage pool or from an existing storage

pool and click "Next".

2. Configure the volume capacity, thin provisioning, alert threshold, volume alias,

encryption and shared folder settings and click "Next".

3. Click "Finish".

4. A new volume is created.

Note:

Thin provisioning: This approach can over-allocate the volume capacity for each

workgroup regardless of the physical storage limit, and the physical disk space is

used only when files are written into the volume. With thin provisioning, the

volume space is fully utilized.