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194 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices
Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to
a host
This example demonstrates how a storage administrator uses Ionix ControlCenter and
SMC (Symmetrix Management Console) to establish Virtual Provisioning
™.
Creating new thin pool device from Ionix ControlCenter
The storage administrator logs in to Ionix ControlCenter Console and performs the
following tasks:
1. From the Console tree view, expands the folders Storage Systems, Symmetrix.
Figure 171 Launch of SMC from console tree
2. Finds the Symmetrix array running Enginuity™ 5773 or later.
3. Right-clicks on the Symmetrix SID and selects Device Pool Management, New Thin
Pool (SMC) (Figure 171).
The SMC Launch dialog box opens with the available SMC server options. The
SMC Console Launch dialog box lists all SMC Servers registered with this
Symmetrix array in the list box (Figure 172).