Creating, attaching, and protecting volumes with local replication for configuring namespace paths

Ops Center Administrator User Guide

Version

10.9.x

File Size

6.6 MB

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99ADM001-17

Create parity groups.
Create pools.
Add servers.

On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Servers to see the inventory of servers.
Select an FC-NVMe server, click Actions > Attach Volumes > Create, Attach, and Protect Volumes with Local Replication.
Configure volumes for the specified storage system.
You can switch to another storage system by using the Storage System list.
1. Select the number of volumes.
2. Enter the volume label and select a suffix for it.
3. Select the volume size.
4. Select the volume unit: GiB, TiB, or Blocks.
5. (Optional) Select a Volume ID Range to specify one for the new volume for granular management of volumes. For example, for ease of management, you can assign a certain range of IDs to certain departments in your organization. ID ranges can be specified in Decimal or Hexadecimal. The default selection is Auto, which means that Ops Center Administrator automatically selects the ID for the volume.
6. Select the pool type: Thin or Tiered.
7. For a Thin pool, select the pool tier: Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze.
  If the storage system has available capacity from external storage, you can also select the External tier.
8. (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection is AutoSelected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best pool for provisioning the volume based on utilization and tier requirements.
  
  Note: DDM pools are not available and cannot be used to create volumes.
9. 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 the following storage systems:
  - VSP 5000 series
  - VSP G1x00, F1500 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.
10. (Optional) For a tiered pool, select the Tiering Policy from the list. Tiering policy choices available in the list depend 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 a volume row to the list of volumes being created. Add more rows as needed.
Click Next to attach volumes to the selected servers.
The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center Administrator.
You can confirm which Volume IDs will be used by clicking View Proposed Volume ID Selection.
To mandate using volume IDs shown in pop-up dialog, select Yes under Mandate Using Displayed Volume ID.
Note: The Mandate Using Displayed Volume ID selection will be reset to No if you move back to the previous step.
Click Next to view options for creating and editing namespace paths.
Note: Ports that are available for provisioning with the following conditions are displayed:
- Security Disabled
- Not a VSM port
- For existing ports, the namespace security of the path is disabled between the server and the port.
When you are satisfied with the paths, click Next to view volume protection options.

Note: Protecting volumes with namespace paths is not yet supported.
Click Next to continue to the optional Operation Plan step, you can confirm settings specified in each window and can confirm the resources to be used in the job, including namespace candidates.
When you are satisfied with all the settings, click Submit.