Before adding storate to Simulator ensure that you have a working VSA (Virtual Storage Appliances):

• Importing the Virtual Appliance

• Get the Celerra Sim up on ESX, and configuring the VMX

• Configuring network interfaces (and what they all mean)

• Making the Celerra Sim unique after cloning

• Licensing Celerra features

• Configuring Datamover interfaces and iSCSI targets

• Getting iSCSI LUNs to the ESX cluster and getting NFS exports to the ESX cluster

For adding the Storage Simulator

Step 1: Adding the Physical Storage.  This step adds the VMDK, configures the VM by partitioning, formatting, and mounting (which acts as the control station), and then the steps that emulate "plugging in" the extra enclosures.

Step 2: Configuring the Additional Storage (and removing it).  This takes the storage added and configured as a "new enclosure" in step 1, and configures it to be used in the Celerra as additional storage in the Storage Pools.   It also shows the steps to remove the storage if you need to do that in the future.

so how do you actually add the storage Phukon ?

In continuation of the previous thread....

The simulator comes enabled with 25 GB of virtual storage at installation time. This comes in the form of two storage pools, one 20 GB and one 5 GB.
The default configuration of the Celerra Simulator requires 40 GB of storage on the host system that is reserved for the simulator. From this 40 GB of reserved storage, approximately 3-5 GB of that space is required for the simulator software and files. 25 GB of space is allocated to two storage pools, one is 5 GB and one 20 GB. The two storage pools consist of a total of eight 2.6 GB LUNs. This leaves approximately 1.8 GB of free space for creating additional LUNs on the host system.

Check for the existing status:

• Login to Celerra Manager GUI as nasadmin and Navigate to the storage pool section in the tree.
• Expand out storage and pools and check for the spaces

For adding VMDK we need to Shutdown Celerra VM (as a best practice ensure to take esx snapshot)

Add additional VMDK (incremental storage), perform add new Vmdk file to configure the additional storage

Switch into the console

• login is as root.
• fdisk /dev/
• follow the instructions
• Create the mount point
• Format the disk with file system

Edit the fs tab to make sure that the file system is mounted after reboot.

Log out and Login again

[root@csdr ~]# export Nas_db =/nas

[root@csdr ~]# cd /nas/log

[root@csdr ~]# cp backend status.xxxxx.xml backend_status.yyyyy.xml

[root@csdr ~]# cp backend resume.xxxxx.xml backend_resume.yyyyy.xml

                    ( xxxxx.xml set of files represent the backend in the simulator which contains as the old serial number Clariion and Celerra in the simulator)

                           ( yyyyy contains the new serial number after the vm was cloned)

[root@csdr ~]# /nas/sbin/setup_clariion -init ( Select add a disk enclosure and follow the instruction and locate the mount point)

• Login to Celerra Manager GUI as nasadmin and Navigate to the storage  pool section in the tree.
• Expand out storage and pools and check  for the additional capacity.

thank you Phukon

I was able to figure it out. Thanks for your reply.

I was able to figure it out, thanks for your reply.

Thanks

Dyno and Giyg.