Creating an application

When you create and associate storage resources with an application, you can monitor the capacity, space usage, and performance of the application and its subcomponents.

1. From the Groups menu, click Applications.
2. Click Create Application.
3. Enter the information about the application that you want to create, and click Create.
4. On the Select a Method page, click Assign storage resources to the application.
5. On the Select a Resource Type page, click A selection of volumes that match a pattern.
6. Type the pattern that matches the names of the volumes that the application uses for storage.
   For example, to associate the volumes that the application for the Books Sales DB uses, you type bksales_ws*.
7. Click Belonging to and then click Storage System.
8. Type the name of the storage system or the pattern that matches the name of the storage system.
9. To check that the filter retrieves the correct storage resources, click Preview.
   If you want to change the filter, click Close and make your changes.
10. Click Save.
    Important:

    When you use a filter to add specific resources to an Application, those specific resources appear as Members in the Application and only resources directly related to the specific Members resources appear in the Application under Related Resources. Resources that are not directly related to the specific Member resources do not appear in the Application under Related Resources.

    For example, when you use a filter to add specific volumes from a specific storage system to an Application, only those volumes that match the filter appear as Members in the Application. Under Related Resources for the Application, you will see only those resources (storage system, pools, managed disks, RAID arrays, drives, etc.) that are directly related to the specific volumes you added as Members to the Application. For example, if the storage system associated with those specific volumes that you added to the Application via a filter contains other volumes that did not match the filter, then those volumes will not appear as Members or as Related Resources in the Application. You would have to add those other volumes to the Application via a filter or you would have to add a resource directly related to those other volumes to the Application via a filter.