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Step-by-Step Tutorial
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To format your devices, click on the Devices tab in the left hand side panel.
- You will see that 4 devices are being used as registries
- The other devices will be used as data storage devices or metadata devices.
- To format your devices select the “click to format all unformatted devices.”
- The previous step will open a menu where you can select the device type. You can leave everything as is and select “Start Task.”
- Now, your devices are being formatted.
- You will see that 4 devices are being used as registries
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To see your tasks in progress, head over to the Tasks page:
- You will see that there are 4 tasks running and the other 4 are queued
- Give it some time, and you will notice that once the running tasks are finished, they will be marked as completed, and the queued tasks will start running.
- You will see that there are 4 tasks running and the other 4 are queued
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Once all tasks have finished, go back to the Devices page. You will now see all your devices formatted.
- Some of them are labeled with a “D” for Data, and others as “M” for metadata, and the third as "R", for registries.
- You can group your devices by servers:
- You will see that every server has its own Registry, Metadata, and Data services.
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Now you are ready to create your first volume. To do so, click on the “Volumes” tab in the left hand side panel:
- Now, click on the “Volume” dropdown menu, and select “Create volume…"
- Next, name your volume, and add a policy, and choose “3” for the replication factor, and then click on the “Create” button:
- Now, click on the “Volume” dropdown menu, and select “Create volume…"
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Now, your brand new volume is ready to be used.
