xlvm Create Volume Element (VE) Dialog
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## xlvm Create Volume Element (VE) Dialog

When you select the “ New” option from the Selected menu, you see the cascading menu that offers three choices. You can create a new volume, plex, or volume element (VE). Each of these options brings up a different dialog. This section describes the Create VE dialog. This dialog window allows you to create a new volume element out of disk partitions.

The Create VE dialog looks similar to that shown in Figure 4-15:

Figure 4-15. xlvm Create VE Dialog

### Create VE Dialog Buttons and Fields

The Create VE dialog buttons are shown at the bottom of Figure 4-15; the buttons have the following meanings:

Accept |  | Collects the data from the dialog and creates a new VE. The dialog is removed.
Save |  | This button creates a template, using the current information in the dialog.
Cancel |  | Closes the dialog. No action is taken and any changes to the dialog are discarded.
Help |  | Brings up this help card.

The fields of the Create VE dialog are shown in Figure 4-16:

Figure 4-16. xlvm Create VE Dialog Fields

The following fields are shown:

Host Name |  | This field is a label that displays the name of the current host.
VE Name |  | This is a text entry field in which you enter a unique name for the new VE.
VE Type |  | The type of the VE, either Stripe or Concatenate.
Stripe Units |  | Specifies the number of blocks to write to one disk before writing to the next disk in the stripe set. This figure is expressed in 512 byte blocks.
Start |  | Specifies that the VE should start at the given block number within the plex.
VE Size |  | The total size, in megabytes, of the volume element.

### Partition Search Section

The partition search section is similar to the sections described in “Partition Search Results Section”, and “Partitions Selected Section”.

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