Users Guide

The Storage Center page opens.

9. Select the Storage Center for volume creation, and click Next

The Create Storage Volume page opens.

10. Type the name and size for the new volume, select the volume folder, and click Next

11. Select the following steps that pertain to your environment. The steps that apply depend on the

user-preferences settings of the Storage Center user in

Enterprise Manager.

a. Select the pagepool to use for creating the volume.

b. Select the storage options for this volume.

• Select a Storage Profile for the volume. Dell recommends using the Recommended (All Tiers)

profile for most volumes.

• If your storage system contains multiple disk folders, select a Disk Folder from the drop-down

menu.

Click Next.

c. Select a Replay Profile for the volume, and click Next.

d. Specify the LUN for mapping the volume, and click Next.

e. Select the file system version, and click Next.

If the file system version is VMFS-3, select the maximum file size and block size for the file

system.

f. Click Next.

The Datastore Properties page opens.

g. Verify the name and inventory location for the datastore, and click Next.

The Customization page opens.

12. (Optional) Select Create Replication/Live Volume if you want to replicate the volume data to a

second Storage Center and allow both Storage Centers to process I/O requests for the volume. For

information, see

Live Volume Operations.

13. (Optional) Select Replication Options if you want to replicate a datastore. For information, see

Replication Options.

14. Customize the settings for each virtual machine, click Update, and click Next.

The Ready to Complete page opens.

15. Click Finish.