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4. Select the storage type, Block.
The criteria you specify will determine the physical storage pools that are eligible to
be part of this virtual pool.
5. Select a provisioning type (thick, thin).
6. Select one or more virtual storage arrays that can contribute physical storage pools to
the virtual pool.
A virtual pool must be associated with at least one virtual array.
7. Select one or more storage-type-specific protocols used to access the data: FC, iSCSI.
8. Select the minimum number of paths from the host to the storage array
9. Select the maximum number of paths that can be configured per host.
10.Select the number of paths (ports) to allocate to each initiator that is used. ViPR will
not allocate more paths than the Maximum Path allows. When the Maximum Path is
set too low there may be unused initiators which will not be zoned to ports.
11.Optionally, accept the default Expandable setting (enabled).
Storage pools that can be expanded non-disruptively are selected by default. Note
that this can decrease performance in some cases. If you disable this option, the
underlying storage selected for volume creation will consider performance over
expandability.
12.Enable multi-volume consistency if you want resources provisioned from the pool to
support the use of consistency groups. If not enabled, a resource cannot be assigned
to a consistency group when running ViPR block provisioning services.
13.Optionally select a drive type: SSD, FC, SAS, or SATA.
14.Optionally select a system type: EMC VNX Block or EMC VMAX.
15.Optionally specify select one or more RAID types.
16.Optionally specify an auto-tiering policy, that is, storage using Fully Automated
Storage Tiering (FAST).
For VNX Block, a ranking algorithm is applied to get matching pools. For VMAX, only
pools associated with VMAX auto-tier policies are matched.
17.Under Data Protection, select the maximum number of native (that is, ViPR) snapshots
allowed for resources from this virtual pool.
18.Select the maximum number of native continuous copies allowed for resources from
this virtual pool.
19.Optionally select an existing virtual pool (not the one you are creating in this
procedure) to use for native continuous copies (applicable only if native continuous
copies > 0).
20.Select a data protection type, such as EMC RecoverPoint, VPLEX Distributed, or VPLEX
Local.
Refer to data protection sections below for details.
21.Under Quota, optionally specify the maximum amount of of storage that can be
provisioned using this virtual pool. (The value can be overridden at the project level.)
22.Under Storage Pool Association, specify whether you want to manually select a
subset of eligible storage pools, or automatically assign all eligible physical pools to
the virtual pool.
23.Select Save.
Initial Configuration of ViPR Virtual Appliance
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