Chapter 5: Deploying SAN Storage
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Dell EMC Ready Stack: Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Deployment Guide
To create a LUN, log in to Unisphere storage management and follow these steps:
1.
Create the required number of storage pools.
Management VM space requirements
The number and size of the required pools depend on the specific needs of the
environment and the number of available drive types in the storage array.
2.
In the left navigation pane, click
Block
.
3.
In the upper left of the LUNs pane, click the plus sign (+).
4.
In the Create LUNs wizard:
a.
From the
Number of LUNs
list, select
1
.
In the
Name
field, enter a name for the LUN.
From the
Pool
list, select the pool from which the LUN is to be created.
In the
Size
field, enter the size of the LUN.
lists the management VM space requirements. For information about
the storage requirements for the VMs, see
5.
If a thin LUN is required, select the
Thin
option.
A thick LUN is created by default.
6.
Click
Next
.
7.
In the upper left of the
Configure Access
pane, click the plus sign (+).
8.
In the
Select Host Access
window, select the management hosts that require
access to the LUN, and then click
OK
.
9.
In the
Access
pane, review the host selection and click
Next
.
10.
In the
Snapshot
pane, select
Enable Automatic Snapshot Creation
, if required,
and then click
Obtain the HBA’s WWNs
.
11.
In the
Replication
pane, if replication is being configured for the LUN, select
Enable Replication
and then select your required replication settings.
12.
In the
Summary
pane, review the selections and, if you are satisfied, click
Finish
.
13.
In the
Results
pane, click
Close
.
14.
If additional LUNs are required for additional management VMs, repeat steps 4
through 12 to create a datastore of a size that can accommodate all the
management VMs.
For the example in Table 8, a 2 TB LUN is sufficient.
15.
Repeat steps 4 through 13 to create additional LUNs as needed and assign them
to appropriate hosts.
