Administrator Guide

IP Change Action Required

Storage Manager host (or both) to remove FQDN conguration. Restart

Storage Manager for the changes to take eect and register VASA Provider

again.

NOTE: Failure to unregister the VASA Provider before making changes

in name lookup service results in initialization errors on vCenter for

certain services and causes VASA registration to fail.

Managing Storage Containers

You can create and use storage containers to organize VMware virtual volumes (VVols) in your environment.

A storage container is a pool of storage that is used in a VMware environment that supports VVols. Storage containers can be

created using the following methods:

• From the Storage view in the Navigation pane of Storage Manager, select Volumes. Use the Create Storage Container function

to create the storage container and specify its settings.

• From the Servers view in the Navigation pane of Storage Manager, select Servers. Use the Create Datastore function to create

a datastore of the type VVOL. When you create a datastore using this function, you can also create a new storage container to

be associated with the datastore, or map to an existing storage container to be associated with the datastore.

NOTE: This is the recommended method.

After a storage container has been created, you can use vCenter to create a datastore and map it (mount it) to the storage

container. Then the datastore can be used to create VVol-based VMs.

Details about storage containers and VVols shown in the Summary tab when you select the Severs node.

How Storage Container Options Aect vCenter Advertised Capabilities

The creation of a storage container includes specifying options such as the use of compression, deduplication, encryption, and

snapshots and Storage Center Storage Proles. When the storage container creation completes. these options are advertised as

capabilities to vCenter. The following VASA version 2.0 system storage capabilities are supported by Storage Manager, and are

shown on the vCenter Summary tab are shown under Capability Sets and in Default Proles in vCenter for individual datastores.

• compression

• dedupe

• encryption

• snapshotCapable

• SCstorageProle

NOTE: These capabilities apply only to VVol datastores. They do not apply to legacy VMFS datastores.

A VMware administrator can use storage capabilities to create VM Storage Policies in vCenter.