The Provision Storage wizard

Storage group names must be unique from other storage groups on the storage system and cannot exceed 64 characters. Only alphanumeric characters, underscores ( _ ), and dashes (-) are valid. Storage group names are case-insensitive.

Table 1. Service Levels

Service level	Performance type	Use case
Diamond (Default)	Ultra high	HPC, latency sensitive
Platinum	Very high	Mission critical, high rate OLTP
Gold	High	Very heavy I/O, database logs, datasets
Silver	Price/Performance	Database datasets, virtual applications
Bronze	Cost optimized	Backup, archive, file
Optimized	Optimized	Places the most active data on the highest performing storage and the least active on the most cost-effective storage

Workload types are used to refine the service level (that is, narrow the latency range). Possible values are OLTP or DSS, where OLTP workload is focused on optimizing performance for small block I/O, and DSS workload is focused on optimizing performance for large block I/O. The Workload Type can also specify whether to account for any overhead associated with replication (OLTP_Rep and DSS_Rep).

• To create a host, click Create Host to open the Create Host dialog box. For instructions on creating a host, see Create hosts.
• To create a host group, click Create Host Group to open the Create Host Group dialog box. For instructions on creating a host, see Create host groups.

New:

1. Optional: Edit the suggested Port Group Name by selecting it and typing a new name over it. Port group names must be unique from other port groups on the storage system and cannot exceed 64 characters. Only alphanumeric characters, underscores ( _ ), and (-) are valid. Port group names are case-insensitive.
2. Select the ports to use. To view host-invisible ports (unmasked and unmapped), select Include ports not visible to the host. If a Fibre host or iSCSI host or NVMe/TCP host was not selected, select the appropriate filter to filter the port list by iSCSI virtual ports or FC ports or NVMe/TCP ports that are based on the selected host. If an empty host was selected, the radio button Fibre is selected by default. The Dir-Port table is filtered to only show either FC or iSCSI or NVMe/TCP depending on the radio button selection.

   Table 2. Ports

   Port	Description
   FA (Fibre channel)	Ports are passed in by the user or wizard, using port group or port selection. WLP automatic port selection is not available. Load is spread across ports that are online, not virtual, ACLX enabled, and have negotiated speed. Current zoning is not considered.
   FA (Fibre channel) and FN (Fibre Channel)	Ports are passed in by the user or the wizard, using port group or port selection. WLP automatic port selection is not available. Load is spread across ports that are online, not virtual, ACLX enabled, and have negotiated speed. Current zoning is not considered.
   SE (Gig E)	iSCSI endpoints are passed in by the user or wizard, using port group or iSCSI endpoint selection. WLP automatic port selection is not available. iSCSI endpoints are mapped to physical ports. The load is spread across physical ports that are online, not virtual, and have negotiated speed. Current zoning is not considered.

   The following properties display:
   • Dir-Port —Storage system director and port in the port group
   • Identifier —Port identifier
   • Initiators Logged In—Number of initiators logged into the fabric
   • PGs—Number of port groups where the port is a member.
   • Mappings —Number of mappings
   • % Busy —Percentage of time that the port is busy.
3. Click Next.

Existing: Select the port group type and select an existing port group and click Next.

This option is not displayed when you select an existing storage group and click Provision. The option is displayed when you click Create.