Users Guide

Storage Term Description
system to automatically progress data between storage types and across all
storage tiers based on data type and usage.
● High Priority: Use the High Priority profile only for volumes that contain data
you want to keep in tier 1 storage. That is, applying the High Priority profile to
a volume prevents the volume data from migrating to another tier.
● Medium Priority: Use the Medium Priority profile only for volumes that contain
data you want to keep in tier 2 storage. That is, applying the Medium Priority
profile to a volume prevents the volume data from migrating to another tier.
● Low Priority: Use the Low Priority profile only for volumes that contain data
you want to keep in tier 3 storage. That is, applying the Low Priority profile to
a volume prevents the volume data from migrating to another tier.
You can create and modify Storage Profiles within a Storage Center, if you have
licensed Data Progression software.
Snapshots and Snapshot Profiles
(applied to a volume to determine how
often snapshots are taken)
A Storage Center snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data. As such, a snapshot
can be exposed and mapped to allow recovery of a datastore or virtual
machine. Snapshot Profiles determine a schedule for volume snapshots. System-
defined Snapshot Profiles include commonly used schedules for daily and weekly
snapshots. Custom Snapshot profiles can be created to schedule snapshots
appropriate to the data that you want to back up.
View Volume
(an Exposed (mapped) snapshot)
An exposed (mapped) snapshot used to recover data from a point-in-time copy of
data (snapshot).
Data Progression
(automatically migrates volume data based
on the Storage Profile settings)
Based on the Storage Profile applied to the volume and the Data Progression
licensing, volume data automatically progresses on the Storage Center.
On a Storage Center with licensed Data Progression, data can automatically
migrate to different Storage Types within a storage tier, and also across storage
tiers.
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores on Storage
Centers
The vSphere Client Plugin enables you to create and manage volumes that are mapped as VMFS datastores to ESXi hosts or
clusters on a Storage Center.
NOTE:
The options that appear when creating and managing datastores change depending on the Storage Center user
preferences of the Storage Manager user that is defined in the vSphere Client Plugin.
Adding a VMFS Datastore
Use the Add Datastore wizard to add Dell storage as a VMFS datastore.
When you add a VMFS datastore, you create and/or map a Dell volume on the Storage Center. See Introduction to Dell Storage
on page 12 for details about Dell volumes.
To add a VMFS datastore, use these options:
● Create New Dell Volume – Create and map a new Dell volume as a VMFS datastore.
● Map Existing Dell Volume – Select an existing Dell volume to map as a datastore.
NOTE: The existing volume must be a formatted VMFS datastore.
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