Administrator Guide

Create a Volume and Map it to a Windows Server
You can create a volume, map it to a Windows server, format it, and mount it on the server in one operation.
1 Click the Servers view.
2 In the Servers pane, select the Windows server on which to create the volume.
3 In the right pane, click Create Volume. The Create Volume dialog box appears.
4 Enter a name for the volume, which is displayed as the disk label in Windows, in the Label eld.
5 Select a unit of storage from the drop-down menu and enter the size for the volume in the Total Space eld. The available storage
units are kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).
6 Select the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated for a le in the Allocation Size drop-down menu. The default allocation
value is dependent on the size of the volume.
7 Select how to format the volume from the Format Type drop-down menu:
• GPT: Formats the volume using the GUID Partition Table disk partitioning scheme.
• MBR: Formats the volume using the master boot record disk partitioning scheme.
8 Specify how to mount the volume in the Drive or Mount Point area:
• Use Next Available Drive Letter: The volume is mounted on the server using the next unused drive letter.
• Assign to Drive Letter: The volume is mounted on the server using the drive letter selected from the drop-down menu. To update
the list of drive letters that are available on the server, click
Refresh.
• Mount to Empty NTFS Folder: The volume is mounted to an empty folder on the server. The path to the folder must be entered
in the text eld. To verify the path entered is valid, click Verify mount point is available.
9 Select the Storage Center on which to create the volume.
• To manually choose a Storage Center, select it from the Storage Center drop‑down menu.
• To automatically choose a Storage Center based on capacity and performance, click Recommend a Storage Center. The
recommended Storage Center appears in the Storage Center drop-down menu.
10 If you want to specify a custom LUN, restrict mapping paths, congure multipathing, or make the volume read-only, click Advanced
Mapping.
11 To congure settings for the Storage Center volume that will be created, click Volume Settings. In the Volume Settings dialog box
that appears, modify the options as needed, then click OK.
• To specify the name of the volume, type a name in the Name eld.
• To specify the folder in which the volume will be created, select a folder from the Volume Folder area.
• To add notes to the volume, type notes in the Notes eld.
• To schedule snapshot creation and expiration for the volume, apply one or more Snapshot Proles by clicking Change across from
Snapshot Proles.
• If Chargeback is enabled, select the department to charge for storage costs associated with the volume by clicking Change across
from Chargeback Department.
• To enable caching for reads on the volume, select the Enabled check box across from Read Cache.
• To enable caching for writes on the volume, select the Enabled check box across from Write Cache.
• To enable compression on eligible data in the volume, select the Enable check box across from Compression.
• To use specic 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.
12 Click OK.
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