Administrator Guide

Creating Volumes
Create volumes to present servers a logical unit of storage on a Storage Center.
NOTE: For user interface reference information, click Help.
Create a Volume Using Single-Step Dialog
If you need a small number of volumes, you can create them one at a time.
Prerequisite
The options for Volume QoS Prole and Group QoS Prole appear on the dialog box only if Allow QoS Prole Selection has been selected
on the Storage Center Preferences.
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 Volume. The Create Volume dialog box opens.
5 In the Name eld, type a name for the volume.
6 In the Size eld, type a size for the volume in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).
NOTE
: A volume with a congured size greater than half the supported maximum volume size, as dened in the Storage
Center Release Notes, does not support view volumes.
7 In the Volume Folder pane, select the parent folder for the volume.
8 (Optional) Congure the remaining volume attributes as needed.
• To schedule snapshot creation and expiration for the volume, apply one or more Snapshot Proles by clicking Change across from
Snapshot Proles.
• To map the volume to a server, click Change across from Server.
• If Chargeback is enabled, select the department to charge for storage costs associated with the volume by clicking Change across
from Chargeback Department.
• If Data Reduction is enabled on the Storage Center, select Compression or Deduplication with Compression to enable Data
Reduction on the volume.
• To use specic disk tiers and RAID levels for volume data, select the appropriate Storage Prole from the Storage Prole drop-
down menu. Using the Recommended Storage Prole allows the volume to take full advantage of data progression.
• 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.
• To set a Volume QoS Prole, either accept the default QoS Prole or click Change across from Volume QoS Prole. Then select a
Volume QoS prole from the resulting list, and click OK.
• To set a Group QoS Prole, click Change across from Group QoS Prole. Then select a Group QoS prole from the resulting list,
and click OK.
• To adjust the Read/Write Cache, enter the desired size of the cache.
• To congure Replications and Live Volumes if they are licensed, select Replications and Live Volumes.
9 Click OK.
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