Administrator Guide
Creating VVol Datastores
Storage containers must rst be dened on the Storage Center before vCenter can use the storage container. After a storage
container is created, vCenter is able to create VVol-based VMs in the storage container. When you use the Create Datastore action
using Storage Manager, you create datastores of the type VVOL and specify the storage container to hold the datastore.
Create a Datastore or Storage Container and Map it to VMware
vSphere
You can create a volume, map it to a VMware ESX environment, and mount it to the cluster in one operation.
1. Click the Servers view.
2. In the Servers pane, select the VMware ESXi cluster or host on which to create the datastore.
3. In the right pane, click Create Datastore. The Create Datastore dialog box opens.
4. Enter a name for the datastore in the Name eld.
5. Select a datastore type: either:
• VVol Datastore
• Standard Datastore (VMFS)
6. Click Next.
7. If you selected a VMFS datastore, continue with these steps:
a. 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).
b. Select the size limit for virtual disks within the datastore from the Max File Size drop‑down.
c. To choose a Storage Center on which to create the volume, select it from the Storage Center drop‑down menu
d. To specify the folder in which the volume is created, select a folder from the Volume Folder area.
e. To add notes to the volume, type notes in the Notes eld.
f. To select a snapshot prole, select from the proles listed in the drop-down menu.
g. To specify a Data Reduction Prole, select one from the drop‑down menu.
h. To use specic tiers and RAID levels for volume data, select the appropriate Storage Prole from the Storage Prole drop-
down menu.
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Managing Virtual Volumes With Storage Manager