Initializing the vSnap server

During the initialization process, vSnap creates a storage pool using any available unused disks attached to the system for a physical installation. If no unused disks are found, the initialization process completes without creating a pool. For a virtual deployment of vSnap, a default 100 GB unused virtual disk is defined and used to create the pool.

For information about how to expand, create, and administer storage pools, see Storage management.

You can use the IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus user interface or the vSnap command line interface (CLI) to initialize vSnap servers.

For servers that are deployed and added to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface provides a simple method to run the initialization operation.

For servers that are deployed in a physical environment, the vSnap command line interface (CLI) offers more options for initializing the server, including the ability to create a storage pool by using advanced redundancy options and a specific list of disks.