Users Guide

3. If necessary, select one or more hosts to which to map the new volume, and click Next.
4. Select the Storage Center and/or active controller that contains the volume to be mapped.
5. Select Map Existing Dell Volume, and click Next.
a) Find and select an existing Dell volume to map as a datastore, and click Next.
NOTE: The Dell volume must be a VMFS volume.
b) Specify the LUN for mapping the volume, and click Next.
6. If necessary, select the protocol for mapping, and click Next.
NOTE: If FE-SAS is supported on the Storage Center, the SAS option is listed as available.
7. Specify the name for the datastore. The Dell volume name is used by default.
• To change the name of the datastore, clear the Keep existing datastore name check box and type a new name in the Datastore
name field.
• To rename the Dell volume to match the new datastore name, select the Rename volume to match datastore name checkbox.
8. (Optional) Select Create Replication/Live Volume if you want to replicate the volume data to a second Storage Center and allow
both Storage Centers to process I/O requests for the volume. For information, see Live Volume Operations.
9. Click Next.
The Ready to Complete page opens.
10. Click Finish.
Adding Multiple Datastores
Use the Add Multiple Datastore wizard to add Dell storage as datastores.
Prerequisites
• The active controller option is not available if the Storage Center user in Storage Manager only has volume manager privileges.
• The SAS mapping protocol selection is available only on Storage Centers that support Front-end SAS: SCv2000 Series and SC4020
Storage Centers.
• The options for selecting the VMFS versions depend on the version of ESXi that is running on the host.
About this task
When you add multiple datastores, you create multiple Dell volumes on the Storage Center. See Introduction to Dell Storage for details
about Dell volumes.
Steps
1. Select an object in inventory that can be a parent of datastores:
• Datacenter
• Host
• Cluster
2. Select Actions > All Dell Storage Actions > Add Multiple Datastores.
3. Select the Storage Center and/or active controller for volume creation, and click Next.
The Select Action Type page opens.
4. Select Create New Dell Volume, and click Next.
5. Select from the following steps that pertain to your environment: The steps that apply depend on the user-preferences settings of the
Storage Center user in Storage Manager.
a) Type the name and size for the new volume, select the volume folder, and click Next.
b) Select the pagepool to use for creating the volume.
c) Select the storage options for this volume.
• Select a Storage Profile for the volume. Dell recommends using the Recommended (All Tiers) profile for most volumes.
• If your storage system contains multiple disk folders, select a Disk Folder from the drop-down menu.
Click Next.
d) Select a Data Reduction Profile from the list or select None.
e) Click Change next to Volume QoS Profile Default and select a new QoS Profile.
f) Click Next.
g) Select a Snapshot Profile for the volume, and click Next.
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