HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software - Manual (Page 181)

Naming convention for SmartClone volumes
A well-planned naming convention helps when you have many SmartClone volumes. Plan the
naming ahead of time, since you cannot change volume or snapshot names after they have been
created. You can design a custom naming convention when you create SmartClone volumes.
Naming and multiple identical disks in a server
Mounting multiple identical disks to servers typically requires that servers write new disk signatures
to them. For example, VMware ESX servers require that resignaturing be enabled and will
automatically name duplicate datastores. Most servers allow the duplicate disks to be renamed.
Figure 71 Duplicate names on duplicate datastores in ESX Server
Server access
Plan the servers you intend to assign to the SmartClone volumes. Configure the servers before
creating the volumes, and you can then assign the servers when you create the volumes. See
“Controlling server access to volumes” (page 197) .
Defining SmartClone volume characteristics
When creating SmartClone volumes, you define the following characteristics.
Table 51 Characteristics for new SmartClone volumes
What it means SmartClone volume characteristic
The number of SmartClone volumes you want to create.
You can create up to 25 as one operation in the CMC, Quantity
and then repeat the process to create the desired number
of SmartClone volumes. Use the CLI to create larger
quantities of SmartClone volumes in a single operation.
The name of the SmartClone volume that is displayed in
the CMC. A volume name is from 1 to 127 characters and SmartClone Name
is case sensitive. The name cannot be changed after the
volume is created.
SmartClone volumes default to Thin Provisioning. You can
select Full Provisioning when you create them. You can Provisioning
also edit the individual volumes after they are created and
change the type of provisioning.
Server assigned to the volume. While you can only assign
one server when you create SmartClone volumes, you can Server
go back and add additional clustered servers later. For
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