Create And Attach Volumes To Servers - Hitachi VSP G200 System Administration Manual

• If the volume uses compression or deduplication and compression, you can
• Delete the pool.
• Edit the pool configuration by clicking the pencil icon to open the Update

Create and attach volumes to servers

You can create volumes and attach them to servers and then apply data
protection in a single workflow by first selecting a server.
Creating volumes to attach to servers
Start the create-and-attach workflow by selecting a server and creating
volumes.
When you create volumes in Storage Advisor you can:
• Create multiple volumes of the same size or different sizes at the same
• Select the specific pool for volume creation or let Storage Advisor
• Specify a common label and starting label suffix for identical volumes that
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• Attached: the volume is attached to a server.
• Unattached: the volume is not attached to a server.
• Unmanaged: the volume has only a LUN path associated. For example,
a volume may be attached to a server that is not known to Storage
Advisor.
The Data Protection can be any of the following:
• Protected: the volume is protected.
• Unprotected: the volume is not protected.
• Secondary: the volume is a snapshot or clone of another volume.
view the compression ratio and deduplication ratio.
Storage Pool page.
Once a pool is created, you can edit the pool label or expand the pool.
Basic and advanced options, similar to those for pool creation, are
available for pool expansion. The basic option includes choices for a new/
expanded pool size based on the current set of parity groups in the pool.
You can choose to expand an existing tier in the pool or add a new tier to
the pool. If you add a tier to a thin pool, it will be expanded and converted
into a tiered pool. Using the advanced option enables you to add more
parity groups to the pool and increase capacity.
Note: To expand a Thin pool, you must add a parity group of the
same RAID layout, the same disk type, the same RAID level, and
the same disk speed.
Click Submit to update the window and start a job that will update the
pool.
time.
automatically select the best pool based on utilization.
are the same size and have the same pool requirement.
Configuring the storage system