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4 Provisioning storage
The Storage Module for vCenter supports storage provisioning for P6000 EVA, P2000 G3 MSA,
and P4000 arrays. You can perform storage provisioning operations such as adding a new
datastore, deleting or expanding an existing datastore, creating new VMs, or cloning existing
VMs.
For P6000 EVA, 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
you want to use. For more information, see
“About the Storage Administrator Portal” (page 10) .
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Disable the browser pop-up blocker. If the pop-up blocker is enabled, you cannot start a
provisioning procedure 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
Accessing the storage tools
To start a storage provisioning task, you can right-click a host, cluster, datastore, VM, or VM
template in the inventory tree or in a table, or use the storage tools.
To access the storage tools:
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Select a host, cluster, datastore, VM, or VM template in the inventory tree.
2. Click the HP Insight Software tab.
3. Click Storage Tools in the HP Management pane.
The Storage Tools page lists all of the storage tools available for the selected host, cluster,
datastore, VM, or VM template.
Customizing the location of virtual disks on a P6000 EVA array
Before performing provisioning operations on P6000 EVA arrays, you might want to change your
virtual disk location.
When you create a datastore on a P6000 EVA array 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 (if the default installation directory was used):
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x64 systems: C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Insight Control Storage Module
for vCenter\Storage Integration\config
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32-bit systems: C:\Program Files\HP\HP Insight Control Storage Module
for vCenter\Storage Integration\config
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