Cisco Cisco UCS C460 M1 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server White Paper

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To create a pool, follow these steps:

1.  From vSphere Client, select the StorMagic VSA, or log in to the VSA from a web browser and click the 

StorMagic tab.

2. Select 

Pools and click Create Pool.

3.  In the 

Create Storage Pool window, enter the pool name.

4.  Select the subsystem to use. Unless you are using a RAID controller, the only subsystem is 

Direct Device Mapping.

5.  For the RAID level, select 

JBOD for the pool. 

6.  Select the physical disk devices to use for the pool.

7.  Optionally, specify the performance level. This setting indicates to you or other users of the system the performance (for 

example, the speed) of the storage device. Select a number from 1 to 10. A higher number indicates better performance. 
Pools created with versions of SvSAN prior to Release 5.2 are given the value 0 (unclassified).

8.  Optionally, specify any other information about the device in the 

Category field. Then click Create (Figure 54).

Figure 54.  Creating a Storage Pool

9.  If you have multiple RDM disks, repeat the preceding steps to create a pool.

10.  Repeat the preceding steps to create the pool on the second StorMagic VSA.