Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS EqualLogic Group Manager Administrator s Guide PS Ser - Page 124

b. Expand Members and select the member that you want to shut down. c. Click the Maintenance tab. d. In the Power panel, click the Shut down button. e. In the Member shutdown dialog box, enter the grpadmin password and click OK. (Only group administrators can shut down members.) f. The system displays a warning message that the member is shutting down. Click OK to acknowledge the warning. 4. To turn off array power, turn off all power switches on the array after the shutdown completes. To restart the group, power on all group members. Create an Empty Storage Pool 1. Click Group. 2. Select Storage Pools. 3. Click Create storage pool to open the Create Storage Pool dialog box. 4. Specify a pool name and, optionally, a description. • Name can be up to 63 bytes and is case-insensitive. You can use any printable Unicode character except for First and last characters cannot be a period, hyphen, or colon. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. • The pool description can be up to 127 characters. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. 5. Click Next → Finish. NOTE: Alternatively, you can create a storage pool from an existing member. For instructions, see Create a Storage Pool from an Existing Member. Create a Storage Pool from an Existing Member NOTE: This procedure should be treated as an alternative means for creating a storage pool. See Create an Empty Storage Pool for more information. 1. Click Group. 2. Expand Members and then select the member name. 3. In the Activities panel, click Move member. 4. In the dialog box, click Create new pool to open the Create Storage Pool dialog box. 5. Type a name and description for the new pool. • Name can be up to 63 bytes and is case-insensitive. You can use any printable Unicode character except for First and last characters cannot be a period, hyphen, or colon. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. • The pool description can be up to 127 characters. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. 6. Click Finish. 7. Click OK in the Move Member dialog box. 8. Confirm that you want to create the pool. The member status shows as moving until the move operation completes. When you move a member from one pool to another, the volumes using space on that member stay in the original pool. Therefore, the other members of the original pool must contain enough space to store any volume data that was on the member being moved. Moving a member to a different pool can take a long time, depending on the amount of data that the group must move. If necessary, you can cancel an in-progress member pool move operation. The member immediately returns to the original pool. 124 PS Series Group Operations