Provisioning Selected Storage - Dell DL4000 User Manual

Based on a medium-sized environment that does not need standby virtual machines, you can use all of
the storage to back up a significant number of agents. However, if you need more resources for standby
virtual machines and back up a smaller number of agent machines, you can allocate more resources for
larger VMs.
When you select the Appliance tab, the AppAssure Appliance software locates the available storage space
for all supported controllers in the system and validates that the hardware meets the requirements.
To complete disk provisioning for all available storage:
1. In the Appliance tab, click Tasks → Provisioning.
The Provisioning screen displays estimated capacity for provisioning. This capacity is used to create
a new AppAssure Repository.
CAUTION: Before proceeding ensure Step 2 through Step 4 is followed in this procedure.
2. Open the Provisioning Storage window by clicking Provision in the Action column next to the
storage that you want to provision.
3. In the Optional Storage Reserve section, select the box next to Allocate a portion of the storage
being provisioned for Standby Virtual Machines or other purposes and indicate a percentage of
storage to allocate. Otherwise, the percentage of storage indicated in the Optional Storage Reserve
section will be taken from all of the attached disks.
4. Click Provision.

Provisioning selected storage

To provision selected storage:
1. In the Appliance tab, click Tasks → Provisioning.
The Provisioning screen displays estimated capacity for provisioning. This capacity is used to create
a new AppAssure Repository.
2. To provision only a portion of the available space, click Provision under Action next to the storage
space that you want to provision.
• To create new repository, select Create a new repository, and provide a name for the repository.
By default, Repository 1 appears as the repository name. You can opt to overwrite the name.
• To add capacity to an existing repository, select Expand the existing repository, and then select
the repository from the Existing Repositories list.
NOTE: To add capacity, it is recommended that you expand an existing repository instead of
adding a repository. Separate repositories do not utilize capacity as efficiently because
deduplication cannot occur across separate repositories.
3. Under Optional Storage Reserve, select Allocate a portion of the storage being provisioned for
Standby Virtual Machines or other purposes, and then specify the percentage of storage to allocate
for the VMs.
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