Cisco Cisco UCS C210 M1 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server White Paper

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Creating a Shared Data Store with Mirrored Storage

1.  In vSphere Web Client, select your data center and then choose 

Manage > StorMagic. The plug-in opens (Figure 55).

Figure 55.  Opening the Plug-in

SvSAN

Synchronous Mirroring

Production

iSCSI/Mirror

iSCSI/Mirror

Hypervisor

VSA

VM

VM

VSA

Hypervisor

NSH

VM

VM

2. Click 

Create a shared datastore. The Create Datastore wizard opens. Click Next.

3.  Enter the data-store name.

4.  Set the provisioned size. To set the size so that all the available space is used, select 

Use all.

5.  To create mirrored storage, select two VSAs.

6.  By default, the pool to be used on each VSA is selected automatically (Figure 56). To specify the pool, select the 

Advanced options checkbox.

Figure 56.  Selecting the Pool Automatically