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Managing Workspaces
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Adding New Workspaces
Workspaces are locations to store and segregate data. You can allow users to access some or all of the Workspaces,
and you can assign permissions for how each user can access the data in a Workspace. You can create up to 1024
Workspaces, divided among all your Storage Groups.
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If you have created Storage Groups but you have not created any Workspaces, the Create Workspace dialog box
opens by default when you select the Workspaces list.
To add a new Workspace:
1. From the Management Console home page, click Workspaces in the System section.
The Workspaces page opens.
2. Click New.
The Details panel opens.
3. In the Name text box, type a name for the Workspace.
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For information on valid and invalid characters, see “Entering Text” on page 26.
4. Click the Storage Group menu, and select the Storage Group in which you want to create the Workspace.
The Storage Group name appears in the Storage Group text box.
5. (ISIS | 7500 Option) Click the Protection menu and select a Workspace protection option (depends on the
protection modes available for the Storage Group you selected).
6. Type a size for the Workspace in the Capacity text box. The default size (200 GB) is listed in the Capacity text
box, and the maximum size is listed next to the Capacity text box.
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The minimum Workspace size is 1 GB.
If all storage in the Storage Group is allocated to existing Workspaces, you can make an existing Workspace
smaller. For information on resizing Workspaces, see
“Resizing Workspaces” on page 78.
7. (Option) To set a Warning event trigger, select the type of trigger from the drop-down list (either Used % > or
Unused GB <), then type in a value.
8. (Option) To set an Error event trigger, select the type of trigger from the drop-down list (either Used % > or
Unused GB <), then type in a value.
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For more information about setting Event triggers, see “Setting Event Triggers” on page 78.
9. In the User Access panel, set the User and User Group access privileges (for more information, see “Setting
Workspace Access Privileges” on page 81
).
10. Click Apply.
The new Workspace appears in the Workspace dialog box, and the Create Workspace dialog box refreshes to
allow you to create a new Workspace.
If there is already a Workspace with the same name, an error occurs.
11. (Option) Repeat steps 3 through 10 to create new Workspaces.
12. Click Close.
The new Workspace appears in the Workspaces list.