Administrator Guide
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups................................................................................................ 103
User Privilege Levels................................................................................................................................................103
Adding and Removing Storage Centers................................................................................................................ 104
Organizing Storage Centers....................................................................................................................................106
Managing Volumes......................................................................................................................................................... 108
Attributes That Determine Volume Behavior........................................................................................................ 108
Volume Icons.............................................................................................................................................................108
Creating Volumes..................................................................................................................................................... 109
Modifying Volumes....................................................................................................................................................113
Copying Volumes.......................................................................................................................................................118
Migrating Volumes With Live Migrate....................................................................................................................120
Creating and Managing Volume Folders................................................................................................................ 127
Creating and Managing Volume Snapshots.......................................................................................................... 128
Mapping Volumes to Servers..................................................................................................................................132
Deleting Volumes and Volume Folders...................................................................................................................135
Managing Data Reduction.............................................................................................................................................136
Data Eligible for Data Reduction............................................................................................................................. 137
Supported Hardware Platforms.............................................................................................................................. 137
Compression............................................................................................................................................................. 138
Deduplication.............................................................................................................................................................138
View Amount of Space Saved by Data Reduction...............................................................................................139
Change the Default Data Reduction Prole..........................................................................................................139
Pause or Resume Data Reduction..........................................................................................................................140
Disable Data Reduction for a Volume......................................................................................................................141
Managing Snapshot Proles.......................................................................................................................................... 141
Default Snapshot Proles.........................................................................................................................................141
Consistent and Non-Consistent Snapshot Proles...............................................................................................141
Creating and Applying Snapshot Proles.............................................................................................................. 142
Modifying Snapshot Proles................................................................................................................................... 144
Managing Expiration Rules for Remote Snapshots..............................................................................................145
Managing Storage Proles............................................................................................................................................ 146
Create a Storage Prole (Storage Center 7.2.1 and Earlier)................................................................................ 146
Create a Storage Prole (Storage Center 7.2.10 and Later)................................................................................146
Apply a Storage Prole to One or More Volumes................................................................................................. 147
Apply a Storage Prole to a Server........................................................................................................................ 147
Delete a Storage Prole........................................................................................................................................... 147
Managing QoS Proles.................................................................................................................................................. 148
Create a QoS Prole.................................................................................................................................................148
Edit a QoS Prole..................................................................................................................................................... 148
Delete a QoS Volume Prole................................................................................................................................... 149
Apply a QoS Prole to a Volume.............................................................................................................................149
Remove a Group QoS Prole From a Volume.......................................................................................................149
Importing Volumes from an External Storage Array...................................................................................................149
Connect to an External Storage Array (iSCSI) ....................................................................................................150
PS Series Storage Array Import Requirements.....................................................................................................150
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