General
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- Type
Existing volume
Selecting
Existing volume allows you to select one of the available private or shared volumes.
New volume
Selecting
New volume allows you to create a SAN storage volume.
- Name
Unique name of the storage volume.
If adding an existing volume, a list is displayed of volumes that are managed by the storage system. You can search the list by entering any characters contained in the volume name.
- Description (New volume)
Enter a description for the volume. (Optional)
- Scope
Controls the initial assignment of the created resource to scopes.
Users with create permissions that are restricted by scope must assign resources to one or more restrictive scopes to be able to manage a resource.
Users with create permissions that are not restricted by scope are not required to assign resources to a scope to be able to manage a resource. Users with no scope restrictions can assign any resource to any scope.
- Volume template
The volume template associated with the volume, if any.
Filter templates by defined connections
Select to filter the list to display only the volume templates that are accessible from the connections defined in the server profile or server profile template.
- Storage pool
The storage pool in which to create the volume.
Filter pools by defined connections
Select to filter the list to display only the storage pools that are accessible from the connections defined in the server profile or server profile template.
- Boot
Indicates whether the volume is set as the boot volume associated with bootable connections. For configurations where a copy of the boot volume is maintained (using a feature such as 3PAR Peer Persistence), two volumes can be selected for boot (Primary and
Secondary ).
You cannot make
Shared volumes bootable. A bootable storage volume must be set as
Private .
- LUN
Identifier that enables a server host OS to identify a SAN storage volume as a distinct device.
See
About attaching SAN volumes to a server profile
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Volume Properties (New volumes)
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- Capacity
The capacity (size) for the volume.
- Sharing
The sharing setting for the volume.
Private
The volume can be used by only one server profile. Can be used to boot from SAN.
Shared
The volume can be used by more than one server profile.
- Permanent
Enables the volume to be set as permanent.
A permanent volume is not deleted when the server profile is deleted.
A nonpermanent volume is tied to the server profile and is deleted when the server profile is deleted.
- Data protection level (StoreVirtual storage volumes)
The RAID protection level for the storage volume.
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Advanced
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- Provisioning
The provisioning type of the volume.
Thin
Starts with a small set of block storage that expands to fill the volume as the space is consumed.
Full
The volume consumes the full capacity when you create it.
- Enable deduplication
You can enable deduplication on volumes that are thin provisioned and meet the storage system requirements.
- Enable compression
You can enable compression on volumes that are thin provisioned and meet the storage system requirements.
- Snapshot storage pool (StoreServ storage pools)
The snapshot storage pool for the volume.
- Filter snapshot pools by defined connections
Select to filter the list to display only the snapshot pools that are accessible from the connections defined in the server profile or server profile template.
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Storage Paths
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- Connection ID
Connection ID of the storage path.
The ID corresponds to the ID in the
Connections section of the server profile. Storage paths are added in connection ID order.
- Network
SAN network to which the storage system port is connected.
- Storage Targets
Fibre Channel port on the storage system that processes SCSI commands sent by the server initiator.
Storage targets are created automatically or you can select from available target ports.
- Enabled
Enables or disables the storage path. For StoreVirtual storage volumes, you can only enable or disable all storage paths at once.
- X icon
Clicking the
X icon removes the storage path from the server profile.
- Add storage path button
Opens the
Add Storage Path dialog if a connection is available in the server profile.
You access the button from
when editing a volume attachment.
- Remove all button
Removes all storage paths from the server profile.
You access the button from
when editing a volume attachment.
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