Dell PowerVault 735N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 38)

3-16 System Administrator’s Guide
The dynamic group to which the volume will belong is automatically created and
appears selected.
3. Click Next.
You are prompted for the volume layout and size of the volume to create.
4. Select the concatenated dynamic volume types.
NOTE: Software mirroring, striping, and software RAID are not recommended
because of performance degradation.
5. Provide a size in MB or GB.
6. Click Next.
When you create the volume, you will see a Query Max Size button. The Query
Max Size button works differently depending on whether you have one disk or
multiple disks selected.
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If you have no disks selected and you click Query Max Size, the size shown
in the Total volume size entry field will be the maximum for all available
disks.
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If a disk or disks are selected and you click Query Max Size, the size indi-
cated will be the maximum size for the selected disk(s). However, if you click
Query Max Size a second time, the size will be the maximum for all avail-
able disks.
7. After all selections are made, verify your settings and click Next.
You can choose a different disk for the volume you are creating.
8. Click Modify to display the Modify Disks dialog box.
9. Click the disk you want to change, and then click the arrow to select a disk from
the dropdown menu.
10. Choose a drive letter.
11. Click Next.
12. Format the volume using NTFS as the volume type.
13. Select an allocation unit size, if you chose to use a size other than the default.
14. Choose the file system type and, if desired, a formatting option.
NOTE: Quick format formats the disk without checking for bad sectors.
15. Click Next and then click Finish.