Administrator Guide

Disk Management...................................................................................................................................................... 25
Drive Spares................................................................................................................................................................26
Data Progression........................................................................................................................................................ 27
Low Space Modes......................................................................................................................................................27
Storage Proles..........................................................................................................................................................29
Storage Proles for Standard Storage Types......................................................................................................... 29
Storage Proles for Flash-Optimized Storage........................................................................................................30
Storage Virtualization for SCv2000 Series Controllers..........................................................................................31
User Interface for Storage Center Management.........................................................................................................32
Home Page................................................................................................................................................................. 32
Summary View........................................................................................................................................................... 33
4 Storage Center Administration.....................................................................................................................37
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers....................................................................................................................... 37
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups..................................................................................................37
User Privilege Levels..................................................................................................................................................37
Adding and Removing Storage Centers..................................................................................................................38
Organizing Storage Centers..................................................................................................................................... 39
Managing Volumes........................................................................................................................................................... 41
Attributes That Determine Volume Behavior...........................................................................................................41
Creating Volumes........................................................................................................................................................41
Modifying Volumes.....................................................................................................................................................43
Copying Volumes........................................................................................................................................................48
Creating and Managing Volume Folders................................................................................................................. 50
Creating and Managing Volume Snapshots.............................................................................................................51
Mapping Volumes to Servers................................................................................................................................... 53
Deleting Volumes and Volume Folders.................................................................................................................... 56
Reset a Controller to Factory Default............................................................................................................................58
Managing Virtual Volumes With Unisphere Central.....................................................................................................58
Conguring VVols in Unisphere Central.................................................................................................................. 58
VMware Virtual Volume Concepts...........................................................................................................................59
Setting Up VVols Operations on Unisphere Central..............................................................................................60
VASA Provider.............................................................................................................................................................61
Managing Storage Containers..................................................................................................................................63
Managing Data Reduction.............................................................................................................................................. 69
Supported Hardware Platforms............................................................................................................................... 69
Data Eligible for Data Reduction.............................................................................................................................. 69
Compression............................................................................................................................................................... 70
Deduplication...............................................................................................................................................................71
View Amount of Space Saved by Data Reduction................................................................................................. 71
Change the Default Data Reduction Prole............................................................................................................72
Pause or Resume Data Reduction........................................................................................................................... 72
Disable Data Reduction for a Volume...................................................................................................................... 73
Managing Snapshot Proles...........................................................................................................................................73
Default Snapshot Proles..........................................................................................................................................74
Consistent and Non-Consistent Snapshot Proles................................................................................................74
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