HP 3PAR Apple OS X Implementation Guide

4 Allocating Storage for Access by the Apple OS X Host

Creating Storage on the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

This section describes the general steps and commands that are required to create the virtual

volumes (VVs) that can then be exported for discovery by the Apple OS X host.

For additional information, see the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Administrator’s Manual. For

a comprehensive description of HP 3PAR OS commands, see the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface

Reference. To obtain a copy of this documentation, go to the HP Support website:

HP Support Center

Creating Virtual Volumes

Virtual volumes are the only data layer visible to hosts. After devising a plan for allocating space

for hosts on the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, create the virtual volumes.

After devising a plan for allocating space for the Apple OS X host, you need to create the required

virtual volumes on the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage.

You can create volumes that are provisioned from one or more common provisioning groups

(CPGs). Volumes can be fully provisioned from a CPG or can be thinly provisioned. You can

optionally specify a CPG for snapshot space for fully-provisioned volumes.

Using the HP 3PAR Management Console:

1. From the menu bar, select:

Actions→Provisioning→Virtual Volume→Create Virtual Volume

2. Use the Create Virtual Volume wizard to create a base volume.

3. Select one of the following options from the Allocation list:

• Fully Provisioned

• Thinly Provisioned

Using the HP 3PAR OS CLI:

To create a fully-provisioned or thinly-provisioned virtual volume, issue the following HP 3PAR OS

CLI command:

# createvv [options] <usr_CPG> <VV_name> [.<index>] <size>[g|G|t|T]

Here is an example:

# createvv -cnt 5 TESTLUNS 5G

# createvv -cnt 5 CPG_EXAMPLE TESTVV 5G

NOTE: To create thinly-provisioned virtual volumes, an HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning license is

required.

See the HP 3PAR Management Console Help and the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Reference

for complete details on creating volumes for the HP 3PAR OS version that is being used on the HP

3PAR StoreServ Storage.

These documents are available on the HP SC website:

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