Managing Flash Accel caching systems
: Assigning and unassigning flash devices
Assigning and unassigning flash devices
You need to assign a flash device to a host and initialize it before you can cache
VMs
on the host. You need to unassign the device before switching to another device.
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Assigning and initializing flash devices
You need to assign a flash device on the host exclusively to
Flash Accel
before you can cache
VMs
on the host. You also need to format, or
initialize
, the device for caching.
Unassigning flash devices
If you need a larger or smaller flash device on a host, you can stop using the currently initialized device and start using a different one. You need to unassign the current device before assigning and initializing the new device.
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Managing Flash Accel caching systems
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Assigning and initializing flash devices
Unassigning flash devices
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