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InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 User's Guide

Last Published: 2025-04-14

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: AIX,HP-UX,Linux,Solaris,VMware ESX,Windows

Example: Creating a volume using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager

As a user with an Admin role, you are responsible for managing the Storage Foundation product suite that is installed in the data center. Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager provides you a single and a centralized management console for the Storage Foundation and high availability products. You can use Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager to monitor, visualize, and manage storage resources.

Storage Foundation product suite includes multiple Arctera products and optionally licensed features, like Arctera Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas File System (VxFS), and Volume Replicator (VVR). You can use these products to manage the storage resources in your data center. For example, you can use Arctera Volume Manager to manage physical disks as volumes, which are logical devices.

To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role on the host or the Server perspective. The permission on the host may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization.

The following example describes how you can use Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager to create a volume on a UNIX or Linux managed host.

This example uses the following:

Example_vol	Volume that you create using Arctera Volume Manager.
Example_linux_host	Linux managed host on which you create the Example_vol volume.

To create the Example_vol volume on the Example_linux_host managed host, you do the following:

In the Management Server console, go to the Server perspective and expand Manage in the left pane.
Expand Organization, or Uncategorized Hosts to locate and select the host.
Do one of the following:
- Right-click on the host and select Create Volume.
- Expand the host and locate the disk group to create the volume. Right-click and select Create Volume.
- Expand the host and select Volumes. Right-click and select Create Volume.
In the wizard panels to create a new volume, enter the following information:

Create Volume	Select the disk group on which you want to create the Example_vol volume.
Disks selection option	Specify if you want to select the disks manually.
Volume Attributes	Enter the parameters for the Example_vol volume.
Create cache volume	Enter the snapshot cache volume parameters for the Example_vol volume.
Create File System - File System Options	Select the file system options to create a new file system.
Advanced mount options	Enter the file system options and mount options while creating a new file system.
Create Volume Summary	Click Finish to create the volume.

Now, you have successfully created the Example_vol volume on the Linux managed host Example_linux_host.