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Creating a Shared Data Store with Mirrored Storage
1. In vSphere Web Client, select your data center and navigate to
Manage > StorMagic. The plug-in opens.
2. Click
Create a shared datastore. The Create Datastore wizard opens. Click Next.
3. Name the data store.
4. Set the provisioned size. To set the size so that all the available space is used, select
Use all. To divide this storage
equally across the two mirrors, set the size to
1023.99 GB. This setting will divide the available 1.99 TB equally across
two mirrors.
5. To create mirrored storage, select two VSAs.
6. By default, the pool to be used on each VSA is selected automatically (Figure 54). To specify the pool yourself, select the
Advanced options check box.
Figure 54. Create Shared Data Store with Mirrored Storage
7. Click
Next.
8. Select the neutral storage host for mirroring. Select one of the other VSAs running on another blade. The Advanced
option lets you select the Up isolation policy, which does not require an NSH but is not a best practice. See
for more information about isolation policies.
Click
Next.
9. Optionally, enable caching on the data store. This option is available only if your license includes caching and a cache
device was enabled when the VSA was deployed. If you enable caching, default cache settings are used; you can modify
these later using the web GUI. Click
these later using the web GUI. Click
Next.
10. Select the hosts that are to have access to the SvSAN data store (Figure 55). Click
Next.