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4 Provisioning storage
The Storage Module for vCenter supports storage provisioning for HP 3PAR StoreServ, HP
StoreVirtual, HP EVA, and HP MSA arrays. You can perform storage provisioning operations such
as creating a new datastore, deleting or expanding an existing datastore, creating new VMs, or
cloning existing VMs.
For HP EVAs, provisioning operations are supported for thick-provisioned virtual disks. If a datastore,
RDM, or VM was created on a thin-provisioned virtual disk outside of the Storage Module for
vCenter, it can be cloned to a thick-provisioned virtual disk.
To perform the tasks in this chapter, you must:
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Use an HP array that supports provisioning.
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Use the Storage Administrator Portal to set the Full Access permission for the storage pools to
be used for the provisioning operations. For more information, see
“About the Storage
Administrator Portal” (page 12) .
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Disable the browser pop-up blocker. If the pop-up blocker is enabled, provisioning cannot be
initiated by right-clicking a VM, host, cluster, or datastore in the inventory tree.
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Use a cluster with configured hosts when performing provisioning operations on a cluster.
TIP: By default, Internet Explorer shows the page URL in the title bar of a pop-up browser window.
To show the window title, enable the following Internet Explorer security settings:
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Allow script-initiated windows without size or position constraints
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Allow websites to open windows without address or status bars
Customizing the location of virtual disks on an HP EVA
Before performing provisioning operations on HP EVAs, you might want to change the folder in
which your virtual disk is created.
When you create a datastore on an HP EVA using the Storage Module for vCenter, by default,
the associated virtual disks are created at the root level of the Virtual Disks folder. You can
customize the location of the virtual disks by modifying the configuration.xml file, which is
located in the following directory:
install folder\Storage\JBoss\standalone\configuration
Changing the default location for all HP EVAs
To change the default location for all HP EVAs, modify the value \Virtual Disks\ in the
following section of the configuration.xml file:
\Virtual Disks\
Changing the default location for a specific HP EVA
To change the default location for a specific HP EVA, add the following text to the
configuration.xml
file:
\Virtual Disks\FolderName
Use ArrayName to specify an array, and FolderName to specify the virtual disk location.
NOTE: FolderName must exist on the HP EVA, or provisioning operations will fail.
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