Creating File Systems - Hitachi VSP G200 System Administration Manual

You can search for a specific file system by searching for its file system label
in the search box. You can also use the Free Space and File Systems Size
filters to find specific file systems, or filter by virtual file server.
View file system details in either a tile view or a list view, including capacity
utilization and whether or not the file system is mounted.
Capacity utilization is represented by a color bar in each tile.
The following actions are available:
• View details of a file system by clicking the file system label in a tile or row
to open the File System detail page.
• Add a file system by clicking the plus (+) sign to open the Create File
System page.
• Delete one or more file systems by selecting them and clicking Delete.
• Edit a file system by selecting it and clicking Edit to open the Update File
System page.
• Select a file system and Mount or Unmount it.
• View details of the underlying pool by clicking a File Pool label in a tile.
• View details of the related virtual file server by clicking the VFS label in a
tile.

Creating file systems

Create file systems so that you can create shares on Windows and exports on
Linux.
Before you begin
Create file pools and virtual file servers.
Procedure
1. Click the plus sign (+) on the File Systems page to open the Create
File System page.
2. Select a virtual file server.
a. Enter a label up to 255 alphanumeric characters.
b. Select a format:
• 4K: This choice is best for small block random applications (Virtual
Server / Virtual Desktops / Databases).
• 32K: This choice is best for large block sequential applications
(Video, Media, Images) or when the file system is hosted on NL-SAS
drives.
3. Enter capacity up to 1PB.
4. Select a pool and click Submit.
A job is added to the Jobs page to create the file system.
File system details
Configuring the storage system
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