The Management tab enables you to create and manage datastores, volumes, accounts, access groups, initiators, and volume QoS policies.
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Datastore management
The NetAppElement Plug-in for vCenter Server enables you to manage datastores that are created on Element volumes. You can create, extend, clone, share, or delete datastores. You can also use VAAI UNMAP to allow a cluster to reclaim freed block space from thinly provisioned VMFS datastores.
QoSSIOC automation
The NetAppElement Plug-in for vCenter Server allows, as an optional setting, automatic quality of service (QoS) based on storage I/O control (SIOC) settings of all VMs on a datastore.
Volume management
Storage is provisioned in the NetAppElement system as volumes. Volumes are block devices accessed over the network using iSCSI or Fibre Channel clients.
User account management
User accounts are used to control access to the storage resources on a NetAppElement software-based network. At least one user account is required before a volume can be created. When you create a volume, it is assigned to an account. If you have created a virtual volume, the account is the storage container. The account contains the CHAP authentication required to access the volumes assigned to it. An account can have up to two thousand volumes assigned to it, but a volume can belong to only one account.
Volume access groups
A volume access group is a collection of volumes that users can access using either iSCSI initiators or Fibre Channel initiators.
Initiators
Initiators enable external clients access to volumes in a cluster, serving as the entry point for communication between clients and volumes. You can create and delete initiators, and give them friendly aliases to simplify administration and volume access. When you add an initiator to a volume access group, that initiator enables access to all volumes in the group.
QoS policies
A QoS (Quality of Service) policy enables you to create and save a standardized quality of service setting that can be applied to many volumes. You can create, edit, and delete QoS policies.