EMC XtremIO GUI Overview and Storage Provisioning

Let’s take an Overview of XMS GUI:

Login to the XMS server using IP address.

We can see a below dashboard

Configuration Tab:

Hardware Tab:

Event Tab:

Monitor Tab:

Administration Tab:

Storage Provisioning:

Note: For Provisioning Storage First the Host needs to be zoned with Storage array.

Steps involved in storage provisioning:

1. Creating an Initiator folder and adding members to the folder.
2. Creating an Storage folder
3. Adding Volumes to the Storage folder.
4. Masking View update.

Storage provisioning is lot more easier in XtremIO GUI. Lets go through the steps.

Step 1:

Go to configuration Tab.

Step 2:

Click on the Add volume (Highlighted in red).

Step 3:

Click on Add Multiple (Highlighted in red).

Step 4:

Specify volume name and size.

Step 5:

Create a New Folder where pervious created Volumes will be kept.

Step 6:

We can see paras folder and Paras_xio_01 volumes created.

Step 7:

For creating Initiator group, click on add and select the PWWN.

Step 8:

Give Parent folder for Initiator group.

Step 9:

Click on the volumes and Initiator group for creating a Making view.

Step 10:

Click on Map All and then click apply. Storage is visible to host.

Above Storage was assigned to an ESX host. From Vsphere client we have to scan devices. Let’s see the steps for scanning for new devices.

Step 1:

Click on storage and select devices to view list of devices connected to ESXi Host.

Step 2:

Click on rescan new for identifying new devices connected to ESXi host.