Administrator Guide

IP Change Action Required

Switching from FQDN to IP Address on DellStorage

Manager

If you want to stop using FQDN and go back to using IP addresses, unregister the

VASA Provider rst. Then make changes to the name lookup service or Storage

Manager host (or both) to remove FQDN conguration. Restart Storage Manager

for the changes to take eect and register VASA Provider again.

NOTE: Failure to unregister the VASA Provider before making changes in

name lookup service results in initialization errors on vCenter for certain

services and causes VASA registration to fail.

Managing Storage Containers

You can create and use storage containers to organize VMware virtual volumes (VVols) in your environment.

A storage container is a pool of storage that is used in a VMware environment that supports VVols. Storage containers can be created

using the following methods:

• From the Storage view in the Navigation pane of Storage Manager, select Volumes. Use the Create Storage Container function to

create the storage container and specify its settings.

• From the Servers view in the Navigation pane of Storage Manager, select Servers. Use the Create Datastore function to create a

datastore of the type VVOL. When you create a datastore using this function, you can also create a new storage container to be

associated with the datastore, or map to an existing storage container to be associated with the datastore.

NOTE: This is the recommended method.

After a storage container has been created, you can use vCenter to create a datastore and map it (mount it) to the storage container. Then

the datastore can be used to create VVol-based VMs.

Details about storage containers and VVols shown in the Summary tab when you select the Severs node.

How Storage Container Options Aect vCenter Advertised

Capabilities

The creation of a storage container includes specifying options such as the use of compression, deduplication, encryption, and snapshots

and Storage Center Storage Proles. When the storage container creation completes. these options are advertised as capabilities to

vCenter. The following VASA version 2.0 system storage capabilities are supported by Storage Manager, and are shown on the vCenter

Summary tab are shown under Capability Sets and in Default Proles in vCenter for individual datastores.

• compression

• dedupe

• encryption

• snapshotCapable

• SCstorageProle

NOTE

: These capabilities apply only to VVol datastores. They do not apply to legacy VMFS datastores.

A VMware administrator can use storage capabilities to create VM Storage Policies in vCenter.