Configuring Storage

This section describes how to format disks for cluster storage manually by using disksetup.

The disksetup utility formats disks for use by the Data Fabric cluster. disksetup removes all data from the specified disks. Make sure you specify the disks correctly, and back up any data that you want to save. If you are re-using a node that was used previously in another cluster, it is important to format the disks to remove all data from the old cluster. For more information about the utility, see disksetup.

NOTE
The disksetup script assumes that you have free, unmounted physical partitions or hard disks for use by Data Fabric software. To determine if a disk or partition is ready for use by Data Fabric software, see Setting Up Disks for Data Fabric.

disksetup and DARE

If data-at-rest-encryption (DARE) is enabled, you must use a different set of steps for configuring storage using disksetup. See the appropriate subtopic in this section.