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You can use ONTAP System Manager to quickly and easily provision storage units for hosts on your ASA r2 storage system.

In this example, we'll create six new storage units for a VMware host.

From the System Manager menu, select Storage, then select Add.

Enter a name for the storage units, the number of units, and the capacity for each unit; then select your host operating system.

If you create more than one unit, by default, each unit is created with the same capacity.

Select More Options to enter your host information. For this example, we’ll select the SCSI protocol and add a new iSCSI host.

Enter the host name, then add the host initiators and a description.

Select schedule snapshots protect your storage units with regular snapshots.

Select remote protection to replicate your units to a remote location.

Select a storage vM and replication policy; the select Add.

The storage units must be in a consistency group for replication. Enter a consistency group name and Select Create.

You have quickly and easily provisioned 6 storage units for VMware hosts with local and remote data protection.