Add Fibre Channel (FC) Storage
To add Fibre Channel (FC) storage to Vinchin server/node as storage repository. Make sure your Vinchin server/node is a physical machine which has an FC HBA interface card and had been connected to the FC SAN.
Please go to Resources > Storage > Storage List page and click on Add button.
Select Fibre Channel (FC) in the Storage Type dropdown list.
Select the node (if any) from the Node IP/Domain dropdown list on which the FC LUN you wish to add to.
Wait for the scanning process of the FC HBA card, when it presents in the Fibre Channel list, please use the WWPN to map the target FC LUN to Vinchin from the storage server (if you haven't done this yet).
When done step 3, please refresh the page and repeat step 1 and 2.
In Storage Resource you should see the mapped FC LUN presented, please verify if the FC LUN is intended to be used as Vinchin storage and then select it.
In the Storage Name field, give the storage a custom name for identification.
Select from Backup, Copy & Archive according for which purpose the storage will be used.
The Auto Detect option allows you to auto import backups according to the auto import time interval. If you enable the Auto Assign option, the imported backups will be automatically assigned to the user who added this storage device.
Setup storage usage alert as per your requirements.
Click on OK to add the storage.
If the FC LUN was once been used by Vinchin and which contains backup data, you will get a dialog asking either to import the backups or to format the storage.
If those backups are no longer useful, you can choose to format it, and Vinchin will erase everything then make new filesystem on the FC LUN. It will take a while depending on the storage size and performance, please do not leave the page and wait patiently for the process to be completed.
If you choose to import the backups, Vinchin will not touch the backups and the FC LUN filesystem, as for how to manage the imported backups, if you had enabled the Auto Assign option, the backups will be automatically assigned to your user account. If the Auto Assign option is disabled, you'll have to manually assign the impoted backups, please refer to Import Backups to get to know how to assign and manage the imported backups.
For a fresh new storage LUN or storage LUN contains data which is unrecognizable by Vinchin, you will get a dialog asking to format the storage, please make sure you had made backup of the data on the storage LUN, otherwise everything will be erased!