To configure the volumes that will contain the virtual machines perform the following steps:
1. For each NetApp controller, open NetApp FilerView® and click Volumes->Add to activate the
Volume Wizard.
2. Click on Next to go to the Volume Wizard –Volume Type Selection screen.
3. Choose “Flexible” and click Next.
4. Enter the new Volume name and choose the language and click Next.
5. Choose the Aggregate created for the VMs in the previous steps and select None for the Space
Guarantee. Click on Next.
6. Choose “Useable Size”, enter the appropriate Volume Size (in GB), and set the Snapshot
Reserve to 0%. Click Next.
7. Click Commit
8. Click Close
9. Repeat these steps until all volumes have been created for each storage controller.
NOTE: For scaled-up environments it is best to separate the root-aggregate from the production
aggregates and to make non-root aggregates as large as possible to benefit from the I/O capacity of all
the spindles in the aggregate.
After the creation of the new aggregate the snapshot reserve will need to be turned off by using the below
procedure.
1. Connect to the controller’s console, using either SSH, telnet, or serial console.
2.
Set the aggregate snapshot schedule by typing snap sched –A <aggregate-name> 0 0 0
3.
Set the aggregate snapshot reserve by typing snap reserve –A <aggregate-name> 0
4. Delete existing snapshots, type snap list -A <vol-name>, and then type snap delete <vol-name>
<snap-name>
5. Log out of the NetApp console
To create the necessary volumes which will serve as an NFS datastore to the ESX servers perform the
following steps:
1. Open FilerView
2. Select Volumes.
3. Select Add to open the Volume Wizard.
4. Complete the Wizard, assigning a name to the volumes you create and placing it on the
aggregate created earlier.
NOTE: Data ONTAP® creates new volumes with a security style matching that of the root volume. Verify
that the security style of the volume is set to UNIX®.
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