Creating A Volume - IBM XIV User Manual

v SOURCE_VOLUME_BAD_NAME
v SOURCE_VOLUME_DATA_MIGRATION_UNSYNCHRONIZED
v TARGET_VOLUME_BAD_NAME
v TARGET_VOLUME_LOCKED
v TARGET_VOLUME_HAS_MIRROR
v TARGET_VOLUME_HAS_DATA_MIGRATION
v VOLUME_IS_SNAPSHOT
v VOLUME_IDENTICAL
v VOLUME_HAS_SNAPSHOTS
v VOLUME_IS_NOT_CONSISTENT_SLAVE
v TARGET_VOLUME_NOT_FORMATTED
v SNAPSHOT_IS_FORMATTED
v VOLUME_TOO_BIG_TO_COPY
v TARGET_VOLUME_HAS_OLVM
v VOLUME_IS_OLVM_PROXY

Creating a Volume

Creates a new volume.
Parameters:
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No space to allocate volume
Source volume name does not exist
Data Migration has not completed to source volume
Target volume name does not exist
Target volume is locked
Mirror is defined for target volume
Data Migration is defined for target volume
Operation is not permitted on snapshots
Source and target are the same volume
Volume has snapshots
Operation not allowed on slave volume that is not consistent.
Target volume is not formatted
Snapshot is formatted
Volume is too large to be copied
This target volume is part of an IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility relation.
The volume is in an IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility Proxy phase.
vol_create vol=VolName < size=GB | size_blocks=BLOCKS > pool=PoolName
Name Type
vol Object name
size Positive integer
Positive integer
size_
blocks
Description Mandatory
Volume name. Y
Volume size in GB. N
Size in number of N
blocks.