Migrating A Volume To Another Storage Pool; Exporting To An Image Mode Volume - IBM Storwize V5010 Manual

Note: You can expand the capacity of volumes in Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
relationships that are in consistent_synchronized state if those volumes are using
thin-provisioned or compressed copies.
You cannot expand the following types of volumes:
Volumes in HyperSwap relationships or in Global Mirror relationships that are operating
in cycling mode
Volumes in relationships where a change volume is configured
Volumes that have a fully allocated copy
For further information on volume expansion see the following website:
https://ibm.biz/Bdjnhs

8.3.8 Migrating a volume to another storage pool

To migrate a volume to another storage pool, see 6.8, "Migrating a volume to another storage
pool" on page 333.

8.3.9 Exporting to an image mode volume

Image mode
volume with no virtualization. An image mode MDisk is associated with one volume only. This
feature can be used to export a volume to a non-virtualized disk and to remove the volume
from storage virtualization.
Note: Among the IBM Storwize V5000 family, this feature is available only on the IBM
Storwize V5030 storage systems.
provides a direct block-for-block translation from a managed disk (MDisk) to a
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