Activating a New Logical Disk

In an everRun system, the RAID controller creates logical disks from the system’s physical disks. The everRun software is able to access logical disks that the RAID controller presents to the operating system. When the everRun software recognizes a new logical disk, it performs one of the following actions:

• If the logical disk does not contain data, the everRun software brings the logical disk into service.
• If it is a known logical disk that was not evacuated, the everRun software starts using the logical disk and its data.
• If the disk contains unknown data, the DASHBOARD displays the message Logical Disk – n on PM noden is foreign and should be activated or removed. In this case, you can activate or remove the disk now, or you can do nothing now, but later activate or remove the disk.

To activate a new logical disk

1. Click Physical Machines in the left-hand navigation panel.
2. On the Physical Machines page, select either node0 or node1 in the top pane.
3. On the Physical Machines page, click the Storage tab in the bottom pane.
4. In the Action column, click the Activate Foreign button to activate the corresponding logical disk.
5. When the Confirm message box appears, click Yes to confirm activating the logical disk. Activating the logical disk causes all data on the disk to be lost.

The everRun software partitions the new logical disk and makes it available to be added to a storage group.

Related Topics

Responding to a Failed Logical Disk

Logical Disk Management

Logical Disks and Physical Disks

The everRun Availability Console

Storage Requirements