Administrator Guide

4 Storage Center Administration......................................................................................29
Adding and Organizing Storage Centers.......................................................................................................................... 29
Storage Center User Privileges and User Groups.......................................................................................................29
User Privilege Levels.................................................................................................................................................. 29
Adding and Removing Storage Centers..................................................................................................................... 30
Organizing Storage Centers........................................................................................................................................31
Managing Volumes...........................................................................................................................................................32
Attributes That Determine Volume Behavior..............................................................................................................32
Creating Volumes.......................................................................................................................................................32
Modifying Volumes.....................................................................................................................................................34
Copying Volumes........................................................................................................................................................38
Creating and Managing Volume Folders.....................................................................................................................39
Creating and Managing Volume Snapshots................................................................................................................40
Mapping Volumes to Servers..................................................................................................................................... 43
Deleting Volumes and Volume Folders........................................................................................................................45
Managing Data Reduction................................................................................................................................................46
Supported Hardware Platforms................................................................................................................................. 46
Data Eligible for Data Reduction.................................................................................................................................47
Compression...............................................................................................................................................................47
Deduplication..............................................................................................................................................................48
View Amount of Space Saved by Data Reduction......................................................................................................48
Change the Default Data Reduction Profile................................................................................................................49
Pause or Resume Data Reduction..............................................................................................................................49
Disable Data Reduction for a Volume......................................................................................................................... 50
Managing Snapshot Profiles.............................................................................................................................................50
Default Snapshot Profiles...........................................................................................................................................50
Non-Consistent and Consistent Snapshot Profiles.................................................................................................... 50
Creating and Applying Snapshot Profiles.................................................................................................................... 51
Modifying Snapshot Profiles.......................................................................................................................................53
5 Storage Center Server Administration.......................................................................... 55
Managing Storage Center Server Objects....................................................................................................................... 55
Managing Servers on a Storage Center........................................................................................................................... 55
Creating Servers........................................................................................................................................................55
Modifying Servers...................................................................................................................................................... 57
Mapping Volumes to Servers..................................................................................................................................... 60
Creating and Managing Server Folders...................................................................................................................... 62
Deleting Servers and Server Folders.......................................................................................................................... 62
6 Storage Center Maintenance........................................................................................65
Managing Storage Center Settings..................................................................................................................................65
Viewing and Modifying Storage Center Information...................................................................................................65
Configuring Storage Center User Preferences...........................................................................................................67
Configuring Storage Center Data Settings.................................................................................................................69
Set Up Automated Reports for an Individual Storage Center..................................................................................... 70
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