Creating a virtual volume from existing datastores – HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware User Manual
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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.
Figure 51 HP 3PAR Virtual Volume Entries
4.
Click Next to enter the virtual volume parameters.
5.
Enter the appropriate parameters, then click Next.
•
Number of Virtual Volumes - Number of virtual volumes to be provisioned. You can specify
from 1 to 99 where 1 is the default.
•
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.
Figure 52 Virtual Volume Parameters
Creating Virtual Volumes and Datastores
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