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ServerView Resource Orchestrator V2.2.1 User's Guide

5.3.2 Attaching and Detaching Disks

This section explains how to modify the disk configuration of an L-Server.

Note

Addition and deletion of disks is not possible when the server type is "Physical".


Attaching a Disk

Use the following procedure to attach a disk to an L-Server:

  1. Right-click the target L-Server in the orchestration tree, and select [Change Setting]-[Attach Disk] from the popup menu.
    The [Attach Disk] dialog is displayed.

  2. Enter the items below, and click <OK>.

    Disk Size

    Enter the disk size of the additional disk as a number with up to one decimal place, in units of gigabytes. "10" is the default size setting.

    Virtual Storage

    The default setting for virtual storage is "Automatic". Resource pool or virtual storage can be selected.

From the command-line, execute rcxadm lserver attach.

For details on the command, refer to "E.3.1 rcxadm lserver".


Information

[Hyper-V]
Data disks are connected to the L-Server as SCSI disks. They cannot be connected as IDE disks.

Detaching a Disk

To detach a disk, the power of the L-Server must be off.

To detach a disk while the power of the L-Server is on, specify the -online option command.

Use the following procedure to detach a disk assigned to an L-Server:

  1. Right-click the target L-Server in the orchestration tree, and select [Change Setting]-[Detach Disk] from the popup menu.
    The [Detach Disk] dialog is displayed.

  2. Enter the following items, check the "Detached disk information will be deleted. Are you sure?" checkbox, and click <OK>.

    Disk Resource Name

    Select the disk resource to detach. Disk resources other than system disks are displayed in the list.

From the command-line, execute rcxadm lserver detach.

For details on the command, refer to "E.3.1 rcxadm lserver".

[Hyper-V]
When changing the configuration, a maximum of up to four disks can be specified at one time.

To perform addition of five or more disks, please perform an additional configuration change.