Dell DL4000 Appliance Deployment Guide

Storage provisioning

Your appliance allows you to provision its internal storage to create Virtual disks (VDs) to host repositories and Virtual Standby, archives or other purposes.

1. On the Storage Provisioning page, select the following configuration options for your storage.
   The Repository Name is displayed as Repository 1 by default.
   NOTE: The size of the repository depends on the license applied during registration of your appliance.

   • If you had applied trial license while registering your appliance there is no restriction in the repository size.

   • If you had applied purchased license while registering your appliance, the size of the repository corresponds to the model. For example: In DL 4000 5 TB Appliance, repository of size 5 TB is created. You have an option to expand the repository from the Provisioning page, by applying the expansion license, for more information see Rapid Recovery 6.0 on DL Appliance User’s Guide.
   • If you had applied the purchased expansion license, the size of the repository corresponds to the applied license. For example: In DL 4000 5 TB appliance, if the purchased license (N TB) is applied during registration, the repository of size 5+N TB is created.
2. Select Allocate a portion of your storage for Virtual Standby, archives, or other purposes.
3. Allocate the percentage of storage space that is available after creating the repository by using the slider. You can also use Size box to specify the exact size.
   A virtual disk of specified capacity for hosting virtual standby VMs, archives, other purpose is created.
4. Click Next.
   The initial repository is created and the VDs for hosting VMs or other purposes are created.
   The Retention Policy page is displayed.