Ops Center Administrator enables you to create, attach, and protect volumes in a single page.
Register Ops Center Protector in Ops Center Administrator.
Note: If you want to align the same volume ID between a primary volume with a secondary volume of a high availability pair, the secondary volume ID must belong to the metadevice or the same virtual storage machine as the primary storage system. If you want to use the same virtual storage machine, ensure it has the same resource group.
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Click
Servers on the dashboard to open the
Servers page or navigate to the detail page for a server.
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Select a server, then select
Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with High Availability.
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Configure volumes for the specified storage system.
You can switch to another storage system by using the Storage System list. To add the volume to a virtual storage machine, use the Virtual Storage Machine list. If you don't choose a VSM, the meta-resource group is used.
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Select the number of volumes.
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Enter the volume label and select a suffix for it.
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Select the size.
- Select the volume unit: GiB, TiB, or Blocks.
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Select the pool type:
Thin or
Tiered.
- For a Thin pool, select the tier: Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze.
If the storage system has available capacity from external storage, you can also select the External tier.
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(Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection is
Auto Selected, which means that
Ops Center Administrator selects the best pool for provisioning the volume based on utilization and tier requirements.
- Optionally, select a type of Capacity Saving: Compression or Deduplication and Compression.
Note: You can set capacity saving for volumes based on tiered pools for VSP 5000 series and VSP G1x00, F1500 storage systems with microcode version 80-05-4x or later.
Note: If you choose Deduplication and Compression and later want to update the volume to Compression you must first disable Capacity Saving.
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You can specify a
Volume ID / Range in decimal or hexadecimal format.
- (Optional) For a tiered pool, select the Tiering Policy from the list. Tiering policy choices available in the list depends on the choice of pool that was made in the previous step. Tiering policy choice is not available for auto-selected pools.
- When you have made your choices, click the plus sign (+) to add the volume row to the list of volumes that being created. Add more rows as needed.
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Click
Next to choose attachment settings.