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Procedure
1. Select Admin > Virtual Assets > Virtual Pools.
2. Click Add or select an existing virtual pool name to edit.
3. Set properties as described in Creating or editing a virtual pool for block storage
type on page 55.
4. For Remote Protection, select VPLEX Distributed or VPLEX Local.
a. If you select VPLEX Distributed, select an existing virtual array to act as a
destination for the distributed volume. Optionally select a different virtual pool to
use when creating the distributed volume.
Setting SRDF data protection criteria for a block virtual pool
You can set SRDF criteria when you create or edit a block virtual pool.
Before you begin
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This operation requires the System Administrator role in ViPR.
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SRDF data protection is part of the block virtual pool settings, so you need to be
creating or editing a block virtual pool to do these steps. Refer to Creating or editing a
virtual pool for block storage type on page 55.
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You need a virtual array to act as the SRDF target and optionally an existing target
virtual pool.
Procedure
1. Select Admin > Virtual Assets > Virtual Pools.
2. Click Add or select an existing virtual pool name to edit.
3. Set properties as described in Creating or editing a virtual pool for block storage
type on page 55.
4. For Remote Protection/Availability, select VMAX SRDF.
5. Select a copy mode, either Synchronous or Asynchronous.
6. Select Add Copy to add an SRDF copy, specifying the destination virtual array, and
optionally a virtual pool.
Creating or editing a virtual pool for file storage type
Create a virtual pool by specifying the criteria that physical storage pools must match.
You can also edit an existing virtual pool's settings except the storage type.
Before you begin
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This operation requires the System Administrator role in ViPR.
Procedure
1. Select Admin > Virtual Assets > Virtual Pools.
2. Click Add or select an existing virtual pool name to edit.
3. Name and describe the pool.
4. Select File for the storage type.
The criteria you specify will determine the physical storage pools that are eligible to
be part of this virtual pool. Storage type is not editable once the virtual pool is
created.
Initial Configuration of ViPR Virtual Appliance
58 EMC ViPR 1.1.0 Installation and Configuration Guide