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>E.1. Assigning the CSM plug-in</H1
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>Assigning a segment manager to a disk means that you want the plug-in to
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manage partitions on the disk. In order to do this, the plug-in needs to create and
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maintain appropriate metadata. The CSM creates the follow three segments on the disk:</P
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>The CSM collects the information it needs to perform the assign operation with the
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following options:</P
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>NodeId</DT
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>Choose only from a list of configured node IDs that have been
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provided to the CSM by clustering software. The default selection is the
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node from which you are running the EVMS user interface.</P
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>The name for the container. You need to keep this name unique
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across the cluster to prevent name-in-conflict errors should the container fail over to
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another node that has a container with the same name.
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>Note that you would typically assign the CSM to a disk when you want to
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add a disk to an existing CSM container. If you are creating a new container, you
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have a choice of using either:
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>If the container doesn't exist, it will be created for the disk. If the container already
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