Administrator Guide

i. If you want to specify a custom LUN, restrict mapping paths, congure multipathing, or make the volume read-only, click

Advanced Mapping.

8. If you selected a VVOL datastore, continue with these steps:

a. Choose an option for using a storage container: either:

• Use Existing New Storage Container– if you select this option, a list of existing storage containers opens. Select a

storage container and click Finish.

• Create a New Storage Container

b. To choose a Storage Center on which to create the volume, select it from the Storage Center drop‑down menu

c. Select a unit of storage from the drop-down menu and enter the size for the datastore in the Size eld. The available

storage units are bytes, kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).

d. To select a snapshot prole, select from the proles listed in the drop-down menu.

e. If more than one Storage Type is dened on the Storage Center, select the Storage Type to provide storage from the

Storage Type drop-down menu.

f. To specify the Storage Proles that are allowed to be used on the volume, click Change. A list of Storage Proles opens.

From this list. Select one or more Storage Proles from the Storage Prole drop-down menu.

g. In the Default Storage Prole drop-down menu, select a Storage Prole to be used as the default.

h. To specify the folder in which the volume is created, select a folder from the Volume Folder area.

9. To create a new storage container, provide the following information,

a. In the Name eld, type the name of the storage container.

b. In the Size eld, type the size and select the unit of measurement.

c. Click Change to specify the volume folder as the location for the new storage container.

d. In the Storage Type eld, select a storage type from the drop-down list.

e. Select whether to enable Compression Allowed.

f. Select whether to enable Deduplication Allowed.

g. Select whether to enable Use Encryption.

h. Select whether to enable Snapshots

i. Click Change next to Allowed Storage Proles to select storage proles that are allowed.

j. In the Default Snapshot Prole eld, select a snapshot prole from the drop-down list.

k. In the Default Data Reduction Prole eld, select from the drop-down menu to specify a default Data Reduction prole.

l. (Optional) To specify the storage proles that are allowed, click Change to open the Select Storage Proles dialog box, and

select from the available storage proles.

m. In the Default Data Reduction Input eld, select a default value: All snapshot pages or inaccessible snapshot pages

10. Complete the datastore creation task by clicking Finish.