Deleting a volume, Enabling or disabling sis on a volume – Dell PowerVault NX300 User Manual

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Using Your NAS System

Deleting a Volume

CAUTION:

You must delete all shares and shadow copies from your volume

before deleting it. If a volume is removed before all shares of that volume have
been removed, the Server Manager might not display shares correctly.

In Disk Management, right-click the Basic Volume you want to delete and

select the Delete Volume… option. Selecting Yes on the confirmation screen

deletes the volume.

Additional Information

New features of disk management include:

Simpler partition creation—When you right-click a Volume, you can

choose whether to create a basic, spanned, or striped partition directly

from the menu.

Disk conversion options—When you add more than four partitions to a

basic disk, you are prompted to convert the disk to dynamic or to the

GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style.

Extend and shrink partitions—You can extend and shrink partitions

directly from the Windows interface.

Enabling or Disabling SIS on a Volume

SIS is a solution for managing duplicate files. It helps recover disk space by

reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a volume. It identifies

identical files and stores only a single copy of the file in the SIS Common

Store while replacing duplicate files with link (pointers) to the file in the SIS

Common Store.
SIS is enabled or disabled on individual volumes on your storage appliance.

When you disable SIS on a volume that is using SIS, the Groveler service is

stopped. SIS can also be paused or disabled temporarily by pausing the

Groveler service or changing its priority by using the Sisadmin.exe utility.
Membership in the local Administrators group, or equivalent, is the

minimum requirement to complete this procedure.

NOTE:

SIS is not available on Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Workgroup Edition

x64 With SP1.

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