Dell PowerVault MD3600f Hardware Installation And Troubleshooting Manual page 62

access a given physical disk resource at a time. Therefore, if a disk is
partitioned and contains multiple NTFS volumes, concurrent access to
different volumes is only possible from the cluster node controlling the
physical disk resource. If two NTFS volumes need to be controlled by different
nodes, these volumes must reside on separate disks.
6 Click Yes to confirm the partition.
7 With the mouse pointer on the same icon, right-click and select Change
Drive Letter and Path from the submenu.
8 Assign a drive letter to an NTFS volume or create a mount point.
To assign a drive letter to an NTFS volume:
Click Edit and select the letter you want to assign to the drive (for
a
example, z).
Click OK.
b
Go to step 9.
c
To create a mount point:
Click Add.
a
Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder.
b
Type the path to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, or click Browse
c
to locate it.
Click OK.
d
Go to step 9.
e
9 Click Yes to confirm the changes.
10 Right-click the drive icon again and select Format from the submenu.
11 Under Volume Label, enter a descriptive name for the new volume; for
example, Disk_Z or Email_Data.
12 In the dialog box, change the file system to NTFS, select Quick Format,
and click Start.
NOTE:
under Microsoft Cluster.
13 Click OK at the warning.
14 Click OK to acknowledge that the format is complete.
15 Click Close to close the dialog box.
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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
The NTFS file system format is required for shared-disk resources