Thin provision |
Allocates space on the volume when data is written, which allows you to provision more storage than is currently available. If disabled, space is reserved immediately. You must closely monitor the available space in the containing aggregate because thin provisioning can oversubscribe the available space. In an NFS configuration, you can enable auto grow to automatically expand the datastore when space is needed. Make sure that the value you specify for auto grow is larger than the size of the datastore.
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Aggregate |
Defines the aggregate on which you want to create a new volume. If you selected an SVM that is directly connected to VSC, striped aggregates appear as available; however, they are not supported. Provisioning to a striped aggregate will fail. |
Volume |
Specifies the volume on which you want to create the datastore. For clustered Data ONTAP, you should not create a datastore in the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) root volume. |
Auto grow |
(NFS only) Automatically expands the datastore by the specified increment when space is needed, up to the size limit. This size limit you specify must be larger than the existing datastore. |
Datastore cluster |
Adds the datastore to a cluster if the Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) feature is enabled on the vCenter Server. Do not mix datastores with varying offsets in the same cluster and do not mix optimized and non-optimized datastores. |