Pure storage volume allocation procedure in cli
Pure Storage LUN/volume allocation procedure
Pre-requisites
- Host WWPN
- Required capacity
- Host operating system
Pre checks
- Available free space in pure
- Host connection status
Please make sure zoning is completed between the host and pure storage.
Please follow the below links for zoning.
How to do zoning in Brocade switch
How to do zoning in Cisco MDS SAN switches
Allocation/provisioning
Create a host
purehost create --wwnlist XX:00:00:XX:b5:bb:XX:93,XX:00:00:XX:b5:bb:XX:92 host_name
Set host type (Example: solaris/linux/windows/ESXi)
purehost setattr --personality "linux" host_name
Create a new volume
purevol create --size 100G volume_name
Connect volume to host
purehost connect --vol volume_name host_name
