Allocating a lun it's the process where you present a carved lun to a host or to more hosts (if you have a cluster for example). You do need to know the LDEV id that you want to present and also you need to know what lun number that host will see your ldev. You can present luns in any ...

Hitachi designed the Device Manager so you can always carve a lun for whatever part of the resource tab you are into (and not only). The Create Volume task is available from a multitude of locations throughout the app. Carving is the operation that will take a slice out of a pool and allocate a unique identifier for that slice ...