Administrator Guide

• To create a volume as a replication, select Replication Volume to Another Storage Center.
• To create the volume as a Live Volume, select Create as Live Volume.
16. Click Next.
The Volume Summary page appears.
17. Click Finish.
Create Multiple Volumes Simultaneously Using Single-Step Dialog
If you need to create many volumes, you can streamline the process by creating multiple volumes at a time.
1. Select a Storage Center from the Storage view. (Data Collector connected Storage Manager Client only)
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, select Volumes.
4. In the right pane, click Create Multiple Volumes. The Create Volume dialog box appears.
5. Use the Create Volume dialog box to congure the base volume parameters.
a. In the Volume Count eld, type the number of volumes to create.
b. In the Base Volume Name eld, type a base name for the volumes. Each volume is named with a combination of the base
name and the volume number.
c. In the Size eld, type a size for the volumes in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).
d. In the Volume Folder pane, select the parent folder for the volumes.
e. In the Notes eld, type any notes you want to associate with these volumes.
f. (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.
g. Click OK. The Create Multiple Volumes dialog box appears and displays the volume you created in the previous step.
6. Use the Create Multiple Volumes dialog box to create additional volumes.
• To add a volume based on a previous volume, select the volume from the list, then click Clone Selected Volume.
• To manually dene another volume, click Add Volume.
• To modify an individual volume, select the volume from the list, then click Edit Volume.
• To remove an individual volume, select the volume from the list, then click Remove Volume.
7. When you are nished, click OK.
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