About this task
Use the following guidelines:
•
Use drives in multiples of RAID group sizes. Create new virtual provisioning (VP) pools only to
support new application requirements.
•
Bare metal hosts require separate disk drives. The boot LUNs and data LUNs for bare metal
cannot coexist with the same disk groups or VP pools used for ESX boot and ESX data volumes.
•
RecoverPoint Replica Journals and Replica Volumes must be placed in a dedicated disk group
and VP pool. For example, for RAID 1/0 or RAID 6, add drives in multiples of 8. For RAID 5, add
drives in multiples of 5.
•
Bare metal applications require a dedicated storage pool.
•
Thin pools may reach an oversubscription ratio of 4:1. When a pool reaches 60 percent of
capacity, a warning event is generated. When a pool reaches 80 percent, more drives must be
added to bring the pool below 60 percent.
Procedure
1
Log on to the storage device on which you want to create the storage pool.
2
Select
Storage
>
Storage Configuration
>
Storage Pools
.
3
When the
Storage Pools
window appears, click
Create
.
4
From the
Create Storage Pool
window, select
Pool
for the
Storage Pool Type
, type the name of
the pool, and select a RAID type.
5
Under
Disks
, click
Manual
for disk selection and click
Select
.
6
From the
Disk Selection
window, a list of available disks appears. Highlight the disks you want to
use for the storage pool and use the arrow key to add them to the list of
Selected Disks
. Click
OK
. When the
Create Storage Pools
window appears, the list of added disks appears.
7
Select
Scheduled Auto-Tiering
to enable FAST VP automated data movement if desired.
8
Select the
Advanced
tab to change the pool threshold from 70% to 60%.
9
Verify that all of the information is correct and click
Apply
.
10
When the confirmation window appears, click
Yes
.
11
A confirmation message appears or, if you selected a number of drives that is not a multiple of the
RAID group size, a warning appears. Click
OK
to confirm the success or
No
to go back and
reselect disks.
12
From the
Pools
menu, the last entry is the pool that has just been created and is in the process
of being initialized. Once complete, the
State
appears as
Ready
.
13
To verify the procedure, select
Storage
>
Storage Configuration
>
Storage Pools
. From the list
of storage pools, verify that the new pool appears.
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