Administrator Guide

Create and Manage Replications and Live Volumes....................................................................................................39
Replication Operations.............................................................................................................................................. 39
Live Volume Operations.............................................................................................................................................43
3 Working With Virtual Machines....................................................................................................................49
Creating Virtual Machines...............................................................................................................................................49
Deploy Virtual Machines to an Existing VMFS or NFS Datastore....................................................................... 49
Deploy Virtual Machines to a New VMFS Datastore............................................................................................ 50
Create Virtual Machines to an NFS Datastore Using an Existing NFS Export....................................................51
Create Virtual Machines By Creating a New NFS Export.....................................................................................52
Clone a Virtual Machine.................................................................................................................................................. 53
Recovering a Virtual Machine From a Snapshot..........................................................................................................54
Recovering Virtual Machine Data From a Snapshot..............................................................................................54
4 Managing Disaster Recovery....................................................................................................................... 56
Activate Disaster Recovery............................................................................................................................................ 56
Restore/Start Disaster Recovery...................................................................................................................................57
Predene Disaster Recovery.......................................................................................................................................... 57
5 Viewing Dell Storage Information.................................................................................................................59
Viewing the Dell Settings for a Host............................................................................................................................. 59
Connectivity Legends................................................................................................................................................60
Conguring Storage Center Connections...............................................................................................................60
Adapter Details............................................................................................................................................................61
Storage Details............................................................................................................................................................61
Using Dell Views...............................................................................................................................................................62
General Tab.................................................................................................................................................................62
Usage Statistics Tab.................................................................................................................................................. 64
Connectivity Info Tab................................................................................................................................................ 65
Volume Snapshots Tab.............................................................................................................................................. 67
Replications/Live Volume Tab.................................................................................................................................. 68
Viewing Dell Charts..........................................................................................................................................................70
Charts...........................................................................................................................................................................71
6 Wizard Page Reference................................................................................................................................72
Add Storage (Storage Center)....................................................................................................................................... 72
Add Storage (NFS).......................................................................................................................................................... 73
Compatibility Mode..........................................................................................................................................................73
Create Multiple Datastores..............................................................................................................................................74
Customization...................................................................................................................................................................74
Customization For Clone Virtual Machine.................................................................................................................... 75
Datastore Lookup.............................................................................................................................................................75
Datastore Name............................................................................................................................................................... 76
Datastore Options............................................................................................................................................................ 76
Datastore Properties........................................................................................................................................................ 77
Datastore Selection for Clone Virtual Machine.............................................................................................................77
Device Conguration....................................................................................................................................................... 78
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