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Managing Your Storage 77

Managing Your Storage

To set up your storage, you need to implement your plan. You do so in the

Storage tab.

Note

You must completely configure your NAS server before you

attempt to set up your storage. For more information, refer to

the

HP Surestore NAS 8000 Installation Guide

or access the

Configuration Wizard in the Configuration tab.

In the Storage tab, you must:

■

Create Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs). A unique number that identifies a

specific unit of storage, a LUN logically organizes physical disk space for

storage use. You can have one or more LUNs on the array depending

upon your storage requirements. If you have a SAN, you can not create

LUNs.

■

Aggregate your LUNs into one or more volume groups. Volume groups

can span several LUNs, even those that are on separate arrays.

■

Partition your volume groups into file volumes.

■

Create directories and sub-directories beneath your file volumes to further

organize your data.

■

Make file volumes or directories available to users by sharing or exporting

them.

You can also:

■

View, scan for, and rename arrays

■

Manage failover packages (if you have a high-availability NAS server)

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Create, edit, delete, and schedule snapshots

■

Configure user quotas

■

Configure group quotas