Administrator Guide

Enter Key Management Server Settings.................................................................................................................... 95
Create a Storage Type................................................................................................................................................96
Congure Ports..........................................................................................................................................................96
Inherit Settings........................................................................................................................................................... 97
Congure Time Settings.............................................................................................................................................98
Congure SMTP Server Settings............................................................................................................................... 98
Review the SupportAssist System State Information Collection and Storage Agreement...........................................98
Provide Contact Information...................................................................................................................................... 98
Update Storage Center.............................................................................................................................................. 99
Complete Conguration and Perform Next Steps...................................................................................................... 99
Set Up a localhost or VMware Host................................................................................................................................. 99
Set Up a localhost from Initial Setup.......................................................................................................................... 99
Set Up a VMware Host from Initial Setup.................................................................................................................100
Set Up a VMware vCenter Host from Initial Setup.................................................................................................... 101
5 Storage Center Administration.....................................................................................103
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers......................................................................................................................... 103
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups......................................................................................................103
User Privilege Levels.................................................................................................................................................103
Adding and Removing Storage Centers.................................................................................................................... 104
Organizing Storage Centers......................................................................................................................................106
Managing Volumes..........................................................................................................................................................107
Attributes That Determine Volume Behavior............................................................................................................. 107
Volume Icons............................................................................................................................................................ 108
Creating Volumes......................................................................................................................................................108
Modifying Volumes.................................................................................................................................................... 112
Copying Volumes....................................................................................................................................................... 117
Migrating Volumes With Live Migrate........................................................................................................................ 119
Creating and Managing Volume Folders....................................................................................................................125
Creating and Managing Volume Snapshots...............................................................................................................126
Mapping Volumes to Servers.................................................................................................................................... 129
Deleting Volumes and Volume Folders.......................................................................................................................132
Managing Data Reduction...............................................................................................................................................133
Data Eligible for Data Reduction................................................................................................................................133
Supported Hardware Platforms.................................................................................................................................134
Compression.............................................................................................................................................................134
Deduplication............................................................................................................................................................ 135
View Amount of Space Saved by Data Reduction.....................................................................................................135
Change the Default Data Reduction Prole...............................................................................................................136
Pause or Resume Data Reduction.............................................................................................................................136
Disable Data Reduction for a Volume.........................................................................................................................137
Managing Snapshot Proles............................................................................................................................................137
Default Snapshot Proles..........................................................................................................................................137
Non-Consistent and Consistent Snapshot Proles....................................................................................................137
Creating and Applying Snapshot Proles...................................................................................................................138
Modifying Snapshot Proles..................................................................................................................................... 139
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