HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware Licenses - Manual (Page 58)

Creating a Virtual Volume from existing Datastores
Follow these steps to create a virtual volume from an existing Datastore:
1.
In the main menu navigation, click Home
→Inventory→Datastores and Datastore Clusters.
2. Go to HP 3PAR
→Virtual Volumes.
3. Click Provision Similar. The Welcome page appears.
NOTE: To prevent the welcome page from displaying in the future, select the “Skip this page
in the future when provisioning storage” check box.
4. Click Next to enter the virtual volume parameters.
5. Enter the appropriate parameters, then click Next.
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Number of Virtual Volumes - Number of virtual volumes to be provisioned. You can specify
from 1 to 99 where 1 is the default.
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Virtual Volume name - Name for the virtual volume.
NOTE: When choosing a name for creating virtual volumes, you must consider the
following:
◦ If the number of virtual volume count equals 1, the virtual volume name is set to 31
and the Datastore name is set to 42.
◦ If number of the virtual volume count is greater than 1, the virtual volume name prefix
is set to 26 and the Datastore name prefix is set to 31.
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Create Datastore - Create a Datastore.
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Create raw disk only - Create a raw disk only. This parameter also allow you to attach
the Virtual Volume to a Virtual Machine and choose either Physical or Virtual compatibility
mode.
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Enable zero detection—Check to create zero-detect enabled Virtual Volumes. This check
box is displayed only if the Datastore selected for Provision Similar uses the TPVV
type of Virtual Volume.
NOTE: The zero detection status is either Enable or Disable, depending on whether
the Virtual Volume was created with or without zero-detect enabled, respectively. This
status is displayed in the Virtual Volume page.
After you click Next, a summary of the Datastore to be created is shown:
6. Review the parameters, then click Create. Click OK for each confirmation. A confirmation is
shown to indicate the Datastores are created successfully.
NOTE: When creating virtual volumes from an existing Datastore, the volume allocation
limit of the original virtual volume is also be applied to the newly created volume. Current
operation only supports TPVV or CPVV type.
Adding an ESXi host to the vCenter Server
If an ESXi host with connection to HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system is added to the vCenter Server
after vSphere client is launched and the storage system does not appear on the existing HP 3PAR
StoreServ Storage system list, you can manually add the StoreServ.
To add a new StoreServ to the RMV cache:
1.
Log on to vSphere client.
2. Go to Home
→Solutions and Applications→HP 3PAR Management Plug-in and Recovery
Manager Software for VMware vSphere.
58 Logging on and working with Virtual Volumes