Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases - Manual (Page 28)

4. Specify the capacity for the volume in GB. The minimum size is 1GB, and values may be
entered to two decimal places.
The default is the maximum size of the pool, so make sure you set the size to a smaller
amount if you don’t want the volume to use all the available space.
5. If clustering has been set up for the system, you can select a Preferred Cluster Node (the
default is “Auto”). This capability is available only with the High Availability Feature.
“Preferred node” indicates which node will normally serve I/O to this volume. Here are
some suggestions for choosing the preferred cluster node:
• If you know how active a volume is, try manually load balancing volumes across
cluster nodes.
• If you don’t know the activity rate but want to load-balance, alternate the
preferred cluster node.
• If you prefer a completely active:passive configuration, place all volumes on one
active cluster node.
6. To add more volumes, click the Add Another Volume link in the dialog. Another “New
Volume” area appears in the dialog where you can configure additional capacity.
You can repeat the Add Volumes process in this dialog, with each new volume’s name
being incremented by 1 (volume0, volume1, etc.). To cancel creating a new volume, click
the corresponding Remove link.
7. When you have finished adding volumes, click Create.
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