Administrator Guide

User Interface for Storage Center Management............................................................................................................28
Unisphere Views............................................................................................................................................................ 28
Unisphere Central Pages and Views........................................................................................................................... 29
4 Storage Center Deployment.........................................................................................................31
Initialize a Storage Center................................................................................................................................................... 31
Open the Initialize Storage Center Wizard..................................................................................................................31
Install Tab........................................................................................................................................................................32
Configure Tab.................................................................................................................................................................34
Connect Tab...................................................................................................................................................................37
Unisphere Discovery Utility................................................................................................................................................ 39
Introduction to Storage Center Initial Configuration.................................................................................................39
Discover Storage Centers............................................................................................................................................ 39
Welcome to the Storage Center................................................................................................................................. 40
Configure the Management Network Settings......................................................................................................... 40
Set a Password...............................................................................................................................................................41
Confirm the Storage Center Configuration................................................................................................................ 41
Complete the Installation...............................................................................................................................................41
5 Storage Center Administration.................................................................................................... 42
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers.......................................................................................................................... 42
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups..................................................................................................... 42
User Privilege Levels..................................................................................................................................................... 42
Adding and Removing Storage Centers..................................................................................................................... 42
Organizing Storage Centers.........................................................................................................................................44
Managing Volumes.............................................................................................................................................................. 46
Attributes That Determine Volume Behavior.............................................................................................................46
Creating Volumes.......................................................................................................................................................... 46
Modifying Volumes........................................................................................................................................................ 48
Copying Volumes........................................................................................................................................................... 52
Creating and Managing Volume Folders.....................................................................................................................53
Creating and Managing Volume Snapshots...............................................................................................................55
Mapping Volumes to Servers....................................................................................................................................... 57
Deleting Volumes and Volume Folders........................................................................................................................60
Reset a Controller to Factory Default...............................................................................................................................62
Run the Space Reclamation Wizard..................................................................................................................................62
Managing Storage Containers........................................................................................................................................... 63
Create a Storage Container......................................................................................................................................... 63
Edit a Storage Container.............................................................................................................................................. 63
Delete a Storage Container..........................................................................................................................................64
View Storage Container Information...........................................................................................................................64
Managing Data Reduction..................................................................................................................................................64
Supported Hardware Platforms...................................................................................................................................64
Data Eligible for Data Reduction..................................................................................................................................65
Compression.................................................................................................................................................................. 65
Deduplication..................................................................................................................................................................66
View Amount of Space Saved by Data Reduction....................................................................................................66
Change the Default Data Reduction Profile............................................................................................................... 67
Pause or Resume Data Reduction...............................................................................................................................67
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