This section explains the preparations for setting up storage.
Supported Storage Configurations
The supported storage configurations are as follow:
Storage supported by OVM for x86 3.x
For details on the storage supported by OVM for x86 3.x, refer to the Oracle VM manual.
Effective Utilization of Storage Using Thin Provisioning
In this manual, for the disks of Oracle VM Manager, sparse allocation is regarded as Thin Provisioning, and non-sparse allocation is regarded as Thick Provisioning.
Thin provisioning is technology for virtualizing storage capacities.
It enables efficient utilization of storage.
The function does not require the necessary storage capacity to be secured in advance, and can secure and extend the storage capacity according to how much is actually being used.
In Resource Orchestrator, virtual storage resources can be managed in storage pools.
Storage pools must take into account the existence of thin provisioning attributes.
The following resources can be registered in a storage pool with thin provisioning attributes set:
Virtual storage resources with thin provisioning attributes set
The following resources can be registered in a storage pool without thin provisioning attributes set:
Virtual storage resources with thick provisioning attributes set
Thin Provisioning cannot be configured in an OVM for x86 3.x storage repository. Therefore, in Resource Orchestrator, the attributes configured in the registered storage pool are regarded as the provisioning attributes of the storage repository.
For details on the provisioning attributes of disk resources allocated to an L-Server during creation, refer to "7.3 Registering Resources in Resource Pools" in the "Setup Guide CE".
For how to set thin provisioning attributes for a storage pool, refer to "20.2 Creating" in the "User's Guide for Infrastructure Administrators (Resource Management) CE".
Allocating Storage to a Virtual L-Server
Refer to the "Allocate disk resources (virtual disks) automatically created from virtual storage resources (datastores)" section in "Allocating Storage to a Virtual L-Server" in "10.1.1 Allocating Storage".
Preparations for Storage Environments
Refer to "D.3.2 Preparations for Storage Environments" in "D.3 Storage Preparations".
