Onboarding a storage system is the process of associating it with Ops Center Administrator. After the storage system is onboarded, manage it from the Ops Center Administrator dashboard.
Ops Center Administrator requires access to all resources groups on the storage system so that the workflows function correctly. Verify that the user name used to onboard a storage system in Ops Center Administrator has access to all custom resource groups and meta resource groups.
The user must be a member of the Administration Users Group.
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On the Ops Center Administrator
dashboard, click the Storage Systems (
) icon.
The Jobs window is updated with the job called Create Storage System. If multiple storage systems are being added, there will be a job for each one.
Wait a while for the storage system to be added. Refresh the Jobs window to verify that storage system is onboarded.
The dashboard shows the displayed number of
storage systems has been incremented by one. Additionally, when you click the
Storage
Systems () icon, you are redirected to the storage system inventory where you can see
the newly added storage system.
When a storage system is onboarded, Ops Center Administrator goes through an initialization process where it gathers the information about the current configuration of the storage system. During this time you will see that the ports, volumes, pools, and parity groups in the storage system are "Not accessible". Once the initialization is complete, you can see the port, pool, volume, and parity group information in the storage system details.
- In the parity group inventory for the storage system, create parity groups to convert the raw disk capacity into usable capacity.
- From the settings tab, access the tier definitions before creating pools.