Administrator Guide

3 Select the server from which to unmap volumes in the Storage tab navigation pane.
4 In the right pane, click Remove Mappings.
The Remove Mappings dialog box opens.
5 Select the checkboxes of the volumes to unmap from the server.
6 Click OK.
Create a Volume and Map it to a Server
If a server requires additional storage and you do not want to use an existing volume, you can create and map a volume to the server in a
single operation.
1 If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
2 Click the Storage tab.
3 Select the server to which to map a new volume in the Storage tab navigation pane.
4 In the right pane, click Create Volume.
The Create Volume dialog box opens.
5 Type a name for the volume in the Name eld.
6 Select a unit of storage from the drop-down menu and enter the size for the volume in the Size eld.
The available storage units are bytes, kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), and terabytes (TB).
7 Select the parent folder for the volume in the Volume Folder pane.
8 (Optional) Congure the remaining volume attributes as needed.
• To congure LUN settings, restrict mapping paths, congure multipathing, or present the volume as read-only, click Advanced
Mapping.
• To schedule snapshot creation and expiration for the volume, apply one or more Snapshot Proles by clicking Change located to
the right of Snapshot Proles. The default Snapshot Prole is Daily.
• To disable read cache on the volume, clear the Enabled checkbox located to the right of Read Cache.
• To disable write cache on the volume, clear the Enabled checkbox located to the right of Write Cache.
• To disable Data Compression, clear the Enabled checkbox located to the right of Compression.
• To enable Data Reduction, select Compression or Deduplication with Compression from the Data Reduction Prole drop-down
menu.
• If Chargeback is enabled, select the department to charge for storage costs associated with the volume by clicking Change
located to the right of Chargeback Department.
• 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.
NOTE
: 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 change the volume QoS prole for the volume, click Change located to the right of Volume QoS Prole.
• To change the group QoS prole for the volume, click Change located to the right of Group QoS Prole.
• To create the volume as a replication volume, select the Create as Replication checkbox.
• To create the volume as a Live Volume, select the Create as Live Volume checkbox.
9 Click OK.
Related link
Modifying Volumes
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Storage Center Server Administration