Click the [Add] button, and specify the following items for each disk.
Size
Enter a number with up to one decimal place, in units of gigabytes. Values of 0.1 or larger can be specified.
[VMware] [Hyper-V] [Citrix Xen]
Specify a number between 0.1 and 2048.
[OVM for x86 2.2]
Specify the size within the range of 1 to the_resource_size_supported_by_virtualization_software.
Information
When creating an L-Server, even if the size of the system disk is specified, if the specified size differs from that of the deployed cloning image, the size will be changed to that of the deployed cloning image.
[OVM for x86 3.x]
Specify the size within the range of 1 to the_resource_size_supported_by_virtualization_software.
Number
Clicking the [Add] button will display the [Disk Definitions] dialog, then specify the number of disks to add. Specify a number 1 or larger.
The number of data disks that can be configured differs depending on the VM type.
[VMware]
A maximum of 55 data disks can be specified.
[Hyper-V]
A maximum of 59 data disks can be specified.
[Xen]
A maximum of 251 data disks can be specified.
[KVM]
A maximum of 16 data disks can be specified.
[OVM for x86 2.2]
The number of data disks which can be specified differs according to the virtualization types of the selected images.
- For HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine): 7
- For PV (Para Virtualization): 59
[Solaris Zones (Solaris 10)]
Do not specify data disks.
[Citrix Xen]
A maximum of 13 data disks can be specified.
[OVM for x86 3.x]
The number of data disks which can be specified differs according to the virtualization types of the selected images.
- For HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine): 2
- For PV (Para Virtualization): 102
- PV HVM (Apply PV drivers to Hardware Virtual Machine): 105
[OVM for SPARC]
A maximum of 63 data disks can be specified.
Specify the disk to allocate to the L-Server.
Select from the following items.
Automatic assignment
Select a suitable virtual storage resource from those registered in the appropriate storage pool. Create the specified size of disk resources, and allocate them to the L-Server. Set [Automatic] for the default value.
Note
When there are storage pools with and without Thin Provisioning attributes configured that have the same priority, the storage pool that will be given priority is decided based on definition files.
For details on definition files, refer to "8.1 Definition Files Commonly Shared when Creating Virtual L-Servers" in the "Setup Guide CE".
Storage pool
Select a virtual storage resource registered in the specified storage pool. Create the specified size of disk resources, and allocate them to the L-Server.
Virtual storage
Displays virtual storage resources such as datastores as a list.
Select from the displayed virtual storage resources.
Create the specified size of disk resources from the specified virtual storage resource, and allocate them to the L-Server.
When using the virtual storage resource on which the Thin Provisioning attributes are configured, the disk resource can be created specifying a size exceeding the actual disk space.
Disk
When specifying search conditions, the following relevant resources are displayed in a list.
- The LUN created in advance
- Disk resources created from virtual storage
Select from the displayed disk resources.
The specified disk resources are allocated to the L-Server.
Note
[VMware] [Hyper-V]
When creating a virtual L-Server with a cloning image specified, the provisioning attribute of the cloning image takes preference over the provisioning attribute of the storage pool.
Information
[VMware]
When the attribute of the storage pool in which the virtual storage is registered is Thick Provisioning, the format of the disk to allocate to the L-Server cannot be specified. The default format of server virtualization software will be used. When creating a virtual machine on server virtualization software, the format displayed at the top of the list is the default format.
[Hyper-V]
When creating an L-Server or changing the configuration, a maximum of four disks can be specified at one time.
To perform addition of five or more disks, perform an additional configuration change.
Saved disk resources that are created from virtual storage can only be connected to the L-Server when using Microsoft(R) System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager or later.
Disk resources can be specified if the disk number [No.] is 1 or larger.
After selecting [Disk] from the resource type to use, resources that are displayed in the "Resource List" can be filtered by entering the search conditions and clicking the [Search] button.
Note
When the creation of an L-Server with saved disks specified fails, if a virtual machine remains on VM management software, remove the saved disks from the virtual machine before deleting the virtual machine from VM management software. When a virtual machine is deleted without taking removing saved disks, the saved disks are also deleted. Disks on virtual machines can be identified using the disk number (No.) specified when creating an L-Server.
For details, refer to "Message number 67390" or "Message number 67392" in "Messages".
[OVM for SPARC]
Select disk storage from the resource pool to create the disk resource. Select one of Automatic, Storage pool, or Disk.
[KVM]
When specifying disk resources during creation an L-Server with multiple disks defined, specify the disk resource for all disks. Creation of an L-Server might fail if the disk resource is only specified for some disks.
When a disk resource that can be used by one VM host is divided and registered in multiple storage pools, specify storage pool for "Resource type". Creation of the L-Server might fail when an unused disk resource has been divided among two or more storage pools.
Both disk resources created automatically from virtual storage resources and disk resources created beforehand are allocated to the L-Server.
The storage resources selected when [Automatic] or [Storage Pool] is specified for "Resource type" differ depending on the cloning image selected for image on the [General] tab.
For details, refer to "Storage Resources to be Selected" in "8.6.6 Creating L-Servers" in the "Setup Guide CE".
[Solaris Zones]
The disk resources that can be selected differ depending on the selected cloning image.
When coordinating with BladeLogic (Solaris 10)
Automatic, Storage pool, or Disk
When not coordinating with BladeLogic (Solaris 11)
Automatic, Storage pool, or Virtual storage
Do not select disk resources that are used by Solaris 11 VM hosts.
[OVM for x86 2.2]
The total size of resources is not displayed for the virtual storage in the resource list.
[OVM for x86 3.x]
The system disk cannot be changed using "Automatic", as the disks are created from the same virtual storage as the specified images.
