Administrator Guide
i. If you want to specify a custom LUN, restrict mapping paths, congure multipathing, or make the volume read-only, click
Advanced Mapping.
8. If you selected a VVOL datastore, continue with these steps:
a. Choose an option for using a storage container: either:
• Use Existing New Storage Container– if you select this option, a list of existing storage containers opens. Select a
storage container and click Finish.
• Create a New Storage Container
b. To choose a Storage Center on which to create the volume, select it from the Storage Center drop‑down menu
c. Select a unit of storage from the drop-down menu and enter the size for the datastore in the Size eld. The available
storage units are bytes, kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).
d. To select a snapshot prole, select from the proles listed in the drop-down menu.
e. If more than one Storage Type is dened on the Storage Center, select the Storage Type to provide storage from the
Storage Type drop-down menu.
f. To specify the Storage Proles that are allowed to be used on the volume, click Change. A list of Storage Proles opens.
From this list. Select one or more Storage Proles from the Storage Prole drop-down menu.
g. In the Default Storage Prole drop-down menu, select a Storage Prole to be used as the default.
h. To specify the folder in which the volume is created, select a folder from the Volume Folder area.
9. To create a new storage container, provide the following information,
a. In the Name eld, type the name of the storage container.
b. In the Size eld, type the size and select the unit of measurement.
c. Click Change to specify the volume folder as the location for the new storage container.
d. In the Storage Type eld, select a storage type from the drop-down list.
e. Select whether to enable Compression Allowed.
f. Select whether to enable Deduplication Allowed.
g. Select whether to enable Use Encryption.
h. Select whether to enable Snapshots
i. Click Change next to Allowed Storage Proles to select storage proles that are allowed.
j. In the Default Snapshot Prole eld, select a snapshot prole from the drop-down list.
k. In the Default Data Reduction Prole eld, select from the drop-down menu to specify a default Data Reduction prole.
l. (Optional) To specify the storage proles that are allowed, click Change to open the Select Storage Proles dialog box, and
select from the available storage proles.
m. In the Default Data Reduction Input eld, select a default value: All snapshot pages or inaccessible snapshot pages
10. Complete the datastore creation task by clicking Finish.
Related link
Creating Server Volumes and Datastores
View VVol and Datastore Information
The Summary view for a datastore shows details about the datastore.
Select the Servers node in Storage Manager and then select the datastores in the Storage Center hierarchy. To view details about a
datastore, click the datastore name.
The following example shows the Summary view of a datastore.
Managing Virtual Volumes With Storage Manager
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