Storage Provisioning( Clariion, DMX, Vmax, Netapp )

Storage Provisioning steps in EMC Clariion: (Manged by Navisphere Manager)

• Zone the Server to the CX
• Go to the connectivity status and register the server
• Verify the Raid groups having required size of LUN or else create new Raid group
• Right click on the Raid Group and Create the LUN
• Create the Storage Group
• Add the Server and LUN to storage Group

Storage Provisioning steps in EMC DMX: (Managed by ECC or SMC)

• Identify which FA ports do you want to Map the LUNs to (Normally if its more than 256 LUNs already assigned try use a different FA port)
• Zone the server to DMX
• Select the unmapped LUNs , right click on LUN and go to SDR device mapping and map the LUN
• Go to the Host tab and right cick on the server and select Modify masking configuration and mask the LUNs to the server.
• Refresh the VCMDB

Storage Provisioning steps in EMC Vmax: (Managed by SMC)

• Right click on the array and Create a device
• Create a Storage group and add the devices  to Storage Group
• Create a Port group and add Array FA ports to Port Group
• Create a Initiator group and add Server HBA's to Initiator group
• Create a Masking view and add Port group, Initiator group, Storage group to Masking view
• Refresh the ACLX

Storage Provisioning steps in Netapp: (Managed by Filerview)

• Create an Aggregate with Raid Group on it
• Create a volume
• Create a Q-Tree (optional)
• Zone the Server to Array
• Create the Initiator group and add Server HBA's(WWPN) to Initiator group
• Create a LUN in the volume or inside the Q-tree 
• Map the LUN to Initiator group