Assigning a segment manager to a disk means that you want the plug-in to manage partitions on the disk. In order to do this, the plug-in needs to create and maintain appropriate metadata. The CSM creates the follow three segments on the disk:
primary metadata segment
usable area data segment
secondary metadata segment
The CSM collects the information it needs to perform the assign operation with the following options:
- NodeId
Choose only from a list of configured node IDs that have been provided to the CSM by clustering software. The default selection is the node from which you are running the EVMS user interface.
- Container Name
The name for the container. You need to keep this name unique across the cluster to prevent name-in-conflict errors should the container fail over to another node that has a container with the same name.
- Storage Type
Can be either: share, private, or deported.
Note that you would typically assign the CSM to a disk when you want to add a disk to an existing CSM container. If you are creating a new container, you have a choice of using either: → → or → → .
If the container doesn't exist, it will be created for the disk. If the container already exists, the disk will be added to it.