Administrator Guide

8. Click Next.
(Optional) The Storage Options page appears. If no options are available, the wizard will not display this page.
9. In the Storage Options page, specify the options for the volume.
Storage options vary based on the features the Storage Center supports.
• If more than one Storage Type is defined on the Storage Center, select the Storage Type to provide storage from the Storage
Type drop-down menu.
• To set a Volume QoS Profile, either accept the default QoS Profile or click Change across from Volume QoS Profile. Then select
a Volume QoS profile from the resulting list, and click OK.
• To set a Group QoS Profile, click Change across from Group QoS Profile. Then select a Group QoS profile from the resulting list,
and click OK.
• If Data Reduction is enabled on the Storage Center, select Compression or Deduplication with Compression to enable Data
Reduction on the volume.
• To enable the Read/Write Cache, select or clear the option. Read and write caching generally improves performance, however to
improve performance for SSDs, disable write caching on volumes that use SSD storage.
10. Click Next.
The Set Snapshot Profiles page opens.
11. Select a Snapshot Profile.
• (Optional) To create a new Snapshot Profile, click Create New Snapshot Profile.
12. Click Next.
The Map to Server page opens.
13. Select a server. Click Create Server to create a new server and map it to the new volume. You can also create the volume without
mapping a server if you choose. To select this option, click Yes to the No Server Specified dialog. To select from a more detailed list of
options, click Advanced Mapping.
14. Click Next.
The Replication Tasks page appears. This step appears only if Replication is licensed.
15. Set the Replication options for the new volume.
• To create the volume without setting up a replication, select No Replication or Live Volume.
• To create a volume as a replication, select Replication Volume to Another Storage Center.
• To create the volume as a Live Volume, select Create as Live Volume.
16. Click Next.
The Volume Summary page opens.
17. Click Finish.
Create Multiple Volumes Simultaneously Using Single-Step Dialog
If you need to create many volumes, you can streamline the process by creating multiple volumes at a time.
Steps
1. If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, select Volumes.
4. In the right pane, click Create Multiple Volumes. The Create Volume dialog box opens.
5. Use the Create Volume dialog box to configure the base volume parameters.
a) In the Volume Count field, type the number of volumes to create.
b) In the Base Volume Name field, type a base name for the volumes. Each volume is named with a combination of the base name
and the volume number.
c) In the Size field, type a size for the volumes in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).
NOTE:
A volume with a configured size greater than half the supported maximum volume size, as defined in the
Storage Center Release Notes, does not support view volumes.
d) In the Volume Folder pane, select the parent folder for the volumes.
e) In the Notes field, type any notes you want to associate with these volumes.
f) (Optional) Configure the remaining volume attributes as needed.
• To schedule snapshot creation and expiration for the volume, apply one or more Snapshot Profiles by clicking Change across
from Snapshot Profiles.
• To map the volume to a server, click Change across from Server.
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