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• Enter a name in the LUN Name field.
• Enter the size of the LUN presented to the operating system (expressed in gigabytes).
• Volume Group displays the free space on your array.
Step 4 Click Create LUN or click Cancel to close the dialog box without creating a new LUN.
Increase LUN Size
Note If a LUN has Snapshots or is part of an asynchronous replication pairing, its size cannot be increased
(see Chapter 5, “Asynchronous Replication”).
Step 1 Choose LUN Configuration > LUNs.
The LUN window appears.
Step 2 Highlight a LUN from the LUNs list by mousing over it and right click.
The right-click menu appears.
Step 3 Choose the Increase Size (GB) menu option.
Increase Size dialog box appears.
Step 4 Enter the new size into the Increase (GB) field.
Note LUN size can only be increased, not decreased.
Step 5 Click Update LUN or click Cancel and return to the LUNs list.
Create Snapshots
The Snapshot feature provides the ability to create virtual images of a LUN at a particular instant and
does so without causing a service interruption.
Note Note the following Snapshot characteristics:
• LUN Snapshots are differentiated in the LUN list when the LUN’sCisco UCS Invicta Scaling
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are populated.
• Snapshots can be created either manually or on a schedule.
• When a Snapshot is created, it resides on the same VG as the Origin LUN.
• The number of Snapshots, from one to the maximum of ten, can be configured or set individually
on a per-LUN basis. The default value during creation or scheduling is 3 snapshots per LUN.
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