InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Add-ons User's Guide
- Section I. Storage Provisioning and Enclosure Migration Add-on 9.0
- Provisioning storage
- About storage provisioning
- About creating a storage template
- Creating a storage template using VxFS file systems
- Creating a storage template using NTFS file systems
- Creating a storage template using volumes
- Updating a storage template
- Provisioning storage
- Uploading storage templates
- Downloading storage templates
- Deleting storage templates
- Locking storage templates
- Unlocking storage templates
- Migrating volumes
- Provisioning storage
- Section II. Application Migration Add-on
- Introduction to Application Migration Add-on
- Creating and managing an application migration plan
- Supported versions and platforms
- User privileges
- Prerequisites for creating an application migration plan
- Prerequisites for migration to AWS
- VVR Replication: Environment variables used in application migration
- Creating an application migration plan
- Understanding user-defined tasks
- Understanding application migration operations
- Understanding the cleanup operation
- Understanding the tasks executed in each operation
- Validations performed before migration plan execution
- Executing the application migration plan
- Editing an application migration plan
- Deleting application migration plan(s)
- Exporting application migration plan(s)
- Importing application migration plan(s)
- Viewing historical runs
- Viewing properties of an application migration plan
- Application migration logs
- Index
About storage provisioning
Storage provisioning is the process of assigning storage, usually in the form of server disk drive space to optimize the performance of a storage area network (SAN). The storage template is an efficient way to quickly create storage based on the configurations that are mentioned in the template. This mechanism lets you specify storage attributes and conditions, and the template can be used by the storage operators to allocate storage. It ensures that the allocated storage contains attributes mentioned in the template, and it adheres to the conditions that are specified in the template.
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager storage provisioning lets you create storage templates from existing virtual storage devices such as volumes and file systems. It extracts all the properties of the virtual storage device, and recreates the entire stack. The supported file systems are Veritas File System (VxFS) and NTFS.
With Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager storage provisioning, you determine the virtual device characteristics of the storage object using the file system, volume manager, and operating system utilities and can create a storage template based on this information. A storage template lets you migrate existing virtual devices to new ones with different properties. For example, you can migrate volumes from thick LUNs to thin LUNs.
You can use the Management Server console to create storage templates and provision storage.
You can also use the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API version 6.1 or later to provision storage using a storage template that you previously created.
For information on using the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API, refer to the Arctera Operations Manager Management Server User Guide.
For information on the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager versions that the add-on is compatible with, refer to the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Hardware and Software Compatibility List (HSCL).
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