Disabling accelerated compression

Before you begin

  • You must have the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role.
  • Set the parity group drive type to FMC.
  • You should format the parity group.
  • The emulation type of the target parity group must be OPEN-V.
  • The target parity group must be an internal parity group.
  • The RAID level and drive configuration of the target parity group must be accessible for use for pool volumes.
  • The status of LDEVs in the target parity group must be Normal or Blocked.
  • The Expanded Spaced Used column for the parity group must be No.

Procedure

  1. Format the parity group.

    Caution

    Before you can disable accelerated compression, the parity group must be formatted.

  2. In the Device Manager - Storage Navigator Explorer pane, select Storage Systems, and then expand the tree for the storage system.

  3. Display the parity group for which you want to disable accelerated compression.

    • To display all parity groups in the storage system, click Parity Groups.
    • To display only internal parity groups, expand Parity Groups, and then click Internal.

  4. Select the parity group, and click More Actions Edit Parity Groups.

  5. In the Accelerated Compression setting, check Disable.

  6. Click Finish.

  7. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings. In Task Name, type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply. If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.

Parent Topic
  • Configuring custom-sized provisioning

    Configuring custom-sized provisioning involves creating and configuring custom-size volumes (CVs). CVs are created by dividing a fixed-sized volume (FV) into several smaller volumes of arbitrary sizes.