Block Storage Drivers screen details

A unique name for the block storage driver.

Descriptive information about the intended usage.

The selected 3PAR driver type (Fibre Channel or iSCSI).

The fully qualified domain name or IP address of the block storage driver.

The user name of the 3PAR superuser.

The user password (used when adding or editing a driver). To display the password, check the Show password box.

Connects to the 3PAR storage system to validate user credentials when adding or editing a driver. After the credentials are validated, the Details section is displayed.

	NOTE: If the SSL certificate from the 3PAR storage system is unknown to the base appliance, a dialog displays the certificate details. If you trust the certificate, click Yes, trust certificate to import the certificate into the appliance. If you click No, do not trust and choose not to import the certificate, the Connect action fails with an SSL error, and the storage driver cannot be added or edited. See Managing certificates from a browser for additional information.

The common provisioning group to which the block storage driver is assigned.

The storage area network (SAN) data transfer standard (Fibre Channel or iSCSI) used by the volume type.

The number of volume types associated with the block storage driver. Click the number to view more details on the Volume Types overview screen. See also Volume Types overview screen details.

The number of volumes allocated for each listed CPG. Click the number to view more details on the Volumes overview screen. See also Volumes overview screen details.

The amount in terabytes (TB) of the Allocated capacity in use and the Total available capacity. For example, 23.2 allocated of 25 TB total.

A list of the common provisioning groups (CPG) available to the block storage driver. The list shows the Name of each CPG and its RAID level, Allocated capacity, Total capacity, associated Volume types, and associated Block storage volumes.

Used to select a storage domain (a group of storage devices that share a common communication address). The default common provisioning group becomes active after a domain is selected.

	NOTE: If the domains are not licensed, the storage domains drop-down selector is not displayed.

	IMPORTANT: When adding an iSCSI driver you must have connectivity from the targeted compute node to the 3PAR storage system iSCSI port. If you do not configure the connection, block storage volumes will not attach to virtual machine instances.

If you edit a block storage driver, you must also edit the CPG of the associated volume type. See Edit Volume Types.

Used to select the default common provisioning group (storage pool). This field is active only after you select a valid storage domain.