Chapter 7. Adding Storage for Red Hat Virtualization Add storage as data domains in the new environment. A Red Hat Virtualization environment must have at least one data domain, but adding more is recommended. Add the storage you prepared earlier: NFS iSCSI Fibre Channel (FCP) Red Hat Gluster Storage Important If you are using iSCSI storage, new data domains must not use the same iSCSI target as the self-hosted engine storage domain. Warning Creating additional data domains in the same data center as the self-hosted engine storage domain is highly recommended. If you deploy the self-hosted engine in a data center with only one active data storage domain, and that storage domain is corrupted, you will not be able to add new storage domains or remove the corrupted storage domain; you will have to redeploy the self-hosted engine. 7.1. Adding NFS Storage This procedure shows you how to attach existing NFS storage to your Red Hat Virtualization environment as a data domain. If you require an ISO or export domain, use this procedure, but select ISO or Export from the Domain Function list. Procedure In the Administration Portal, click Storage Domains . Click New Domain . Enter a Name for the storage domain. Accept the default values for the Data Center , Domain Function , Storage Type , Format , and Host lists. Enter the Export Path to be used for the storage domain. The export path should be in the format of 123.123.0.10:/data (for IPv4), [2001:0:0:0:0:0:0:5db1]:/data (for IPv6), or domain.example.com:/data . Optionally, you can configure the advanced parameters: Click Advanced Parameters . Enter a percentage value into the Warning Low Space Indicator field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this percentage, warning messages are displayed to the user and logged. Enter a GB value into the Critical Space Action Blocker field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this value, error messages are displayed to the user and logged, and any new action that consumes space, even temporarily, will be blocked. Select the Wipe After Delete check box to enable the wipe after delete option. This option can be edited after the domain is created, but doing so will not change the wipe after delete property of disks that already exist. Click OK . The new NFS data domain has a status of Locked until the disk is prepared. The data domain is then automatically attached to the data center. 7.2. Adding iSCSI Storage This procedure shows you how to attach existing iSCSI storage to your Red Hat Virtualization environment as a data domain. Procedure Click Storage Domains . Click New Domain . Enter the Name of the new storage domain. Select a Data Center from the drop-down list. Select Data as the Domain Function and iSCSI as the Storage Type . Select an active host as the Host . Important Communication to the storage domain is from the selected host and not directly from the Manager. Therefore, all hosts must have access to the storage device before the storage domain can be configured. The Manager can map iSCSI targets to LUNs or LUNs to iSCSI targets. The New Domain window automatically displays known targets with unused LUNs when the iSCSI storage type is selected. If the target that you are using to add storage does not appear, you can use target discovery to find it; otherwise proceed to the step. Click Discover Targets to enable target discovery options. When targets have been discovered and logged in to, the New Domain window automatically displays targets with LUNs unused by the environment. Note LUNs used externally to the environment are also displayed. You can use the Discover Targets options to add LUNs on many targets or multiple paths to the same LUNs. Enter the FQDN or IP address of the iSCSI host in the Address field. Enter the port with which to connect to the host when browsing for targets in the Port field. The default is 3260 . If CHAP is used to secure the storage, select the User Authentication check box. Enter the CHAP user name and CHAP password . Note You can define credentials for an iSCSI target for a specific host with the REST API. See StorageServerConnectionExtensions: add in the REST API Guide for more information. Click Discover . Select one or more targets from the discovery results and click Login for one target or Login All for multiple targets. Important If more than one path access is required, you must discover and log in to the target through all the required paths. Modifying a storage domain to add additional paths is currently not supported. Click the + button to the desired target. This expands the entry and displays all unused LUNs attached to the target. Select the check box for each LUN that you are using to create the storage domain. Optionally, you can configure the advanced parameters: Click Advanced Parameters . Enter a percentage value into the Warning Low Space Indicator field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this percentage, warning messages are displayed to the user and logged. Enter a GB value into the Critical Space Action Blocker field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this value, error messages are displayed to the user and logged, and any new action that consumes space, even temporarily, will be blocked. Select the Wipe After Delete check box to enable the wipe after delete option. This option can be edited after the domain is created, but doing so will not change the wipe after delete property of disks that already exist. Select the Discard After Delete check box to enable the discard after delete option. This option can be edited after the domain is created. This option is only available to block storage domains. Click OK . If you have configured multiple storage connection paths to the same target, follow the procedure in Configuring iSCSI Multipathing to complete iSCSI bonding. If you want to migrate your current storage network to an iSCSI bond, see Migrating a Logical Network to an iSCSI Bond . 7.3. Adding FCP Storage This procedure shows you how to attach existing FCP storage to your Red Hat Virtualization environment as a data domain. Procedure Click Storage Domains . Click New Domain . Enter the Name of the storage domain. Select an FCP Data Center from the drop-down list. If you do not yet have an appropriate FCP data center, select (none) . Select the Domain Function and the Storage Type from the drop-down lists. The storage domain types that are not compatible with the chosen data center are not available. Select an active host in the Host field. If this is not the first data domain in a data center, you must select the data center's SPM host. Important All communication to the storage domain is through the selected host and not directly from the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. At least one active host must exist in the system and be attached to the chosen data center. All hosts must have access to the storage device before the storage domain can be configured. The New Domain window automatically displays known targets with unused LUNs when Fibre Channel is selected as the storage type. Select the LUN ID check box to select all of the available LUNs. Optionally, you can configure the advanced parameters. Click Advanced Parameters . Enter a percentage value into the Warning Low Space Indicator field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this percentage, warning messages are displayed to the user and logged. Enter a GB value into the Critical Space Action Blocker field. If the free space available on the storage domain is below this value, error messages are displayed to the user and logged, and any new action that consumes space, even temporarily, will be blocked. Select the Wipe After Delete check box to enable the wipe after delete option. This option can be edited after the domain is created, but doing so will not change the wipe after delete property of disks that already exist. Select the Discard After Delete check box to enable the discard after delete option. This option can be edited after the domain is created. This option is only available to block storage domains. Click OK . The new FCP data domain remains in a Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center. 7.4. Adding Red Hat Gluster Storage To use Red Hat Gluster Storage with Red Hat Virtualization, see Configuring Red Hat Virtualization with Red Hat Gluster Storage . For the Red Hat Gluster Storage versions that are supported with Red Hat Virtualization, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/2356261 .

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