Administrator Guide

Storage Tab

The Storage tab of the Storage view allows you to view and manage storage on the Storage Center. This tab is made up of two elements:

the navigation pane and the right pane.

Figure 5. Storage Tab

Call Out

Name

1 Navigation pane

2 Right pane

Navigation Pane

The Storage tab navigation pane shows the following nodes:

• Storage Center: Shows a summary of current and historical storage usage on the selected Storage Center.

• Volumes: Allows you to create and manage volumes and volume folders on the selected Storage Center, as well as create a local

recovery from a volume snapshot. You can also create storage containers, which are used with virtual volumes.

• Servers: Allows you to create and manage physical and virtual servers, server clusters, and server folders on the selected Storage

Center.

• Remote Storage Centers: Allows you to create and view iSCSI connections to remote Storage Centers for which you have access.

• Disks: Allows you to view and manage disks and disk folders on the selected Storage Center.

• Portable Volumes: Allows you to view and manage portable volumes, which are used to transport initial replication data to remote

Storage Centers. This option is useful when transferring the initial replication data over the network would be too slow.

NOTE

: Portable Volumes are not supported in Storage Center version 7.3 and later.

• Storage Types: Allows you to view the Storage Types prepared on the selected Storage Center.

• Snapshot Proles: Allows you to view, modify, and create Snapshot Proles for the selected Storage Center, and apply Snapshot

Proles to one or more volumes.

• Storage Proles: Allows you to view and create Storage proles dened on the selected Storage Center. This node appears only if

Allow Storage Prole Selection is enabled in the Storage Center user preferences.

• QoS Proles: Allows you to dene Quality of Service Proles for volumes or groups of volumes on the selected Storage Center. This

node appears only if Allow QoS Prole Selection is enabled in the Storage Center user preferences.

Storage Center Overview