Quantum 3.5.1 User Manual

Chapter 10  Managing Storage Disks

Adding a Storage Disk

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Adding a Storage Disk

Storage disks are treated the same as media in the system. Before you 

configure a new storage disk, the disk you want to use must be in a file 

system that is already created and mounted.

Use the following procedure to add storage disks. 

From the SNSM home page, choose Storage Disk > Config from the 

Admin menu. The Configure Storage Disk screen appears.

Figure 178  Configure Storage 
Disk Screen

When you are creating storage disks, exercise caution before 

enabling the deduplication feature. Once you create a dedup 

SDISK, you cannot change it to a non-enabled storage disk. 

Conversely, you cannot convert a non-enabled storage disk to 

a dedup SDISK. However, you can delete a non-enabled 

storage disk or dedup SDISK and then recreate the storage 

disk with deduplication either enabled or disabled.