Thin Image (Hitachi Thin Image User Guide)

Using a V-VOL as a Thin Image primary volume. The maximum total number of pools per storage system is 128. Thin Image pool limits are reduced by the number of Dynamic Provisioning pools and Dynamic Tiering pools.

• Using a DP-VOL as a Thin Image secondary volume or pool-VOL.

• Using a Dynamic Provisioning or Dynamic Tiering pool-VOL as a Thin Image primary volume, secondary volume or pool-VOL.

• Increasing the capacity of a DP-VOL using Thin Image.

• Reclaiming zero pages of a V-VOL used by Thin Image.

Data Retention Utility (Provisioning Guide)

Performing operations on DP-VOLs.

Performing operations on DP pool-VOLs.

LUN Manager (Provisioning Guide)

LUN Security (Provisioning Guide)

Performing operations on DP-VOLs.

Performing operations on DP pool-VOLs.

ShadowImage (Hitachi ShadowImage® User Guide)

Using a DP-VOL as a ShadowImage primary volume or secondary volume.

• Using a pool-VOL as a ShadowImage primary volume or secondary volume.

• Increasing the capacity of a DP-VOL used by ShadowImage.

• Reclaiming zero pages of a DP-VOL is determined by the pair status. For more information, see ShadowImage pair status for reclaiming zero pages.

TrueCopy (Hitachi TrueCopy® User Guide)

Using a DP-VOL as a TrueCopy primary volume or secondary volume.

• Using a pool-VOL as a TrueCopy primary volume or secondary volume.

• Increasing the capacity of DP-VOL used as a primary or secondary volume of a TrueCopy pair.

Universal Replicator (Hitachi Universal Replicator User Guide)

Using a DP-VOL as a Universal Replicator primary volume, secondary volume, or journal volume. However, the journal volume must be a DP-VOL that has OPEN-V emulation type.

• Using a DP pool-VOL as a Universal Replicator journal volume, secondary volume, or primary volume.

• Increasing the capacity of a DP-VOL as a primary or secondary volume of a Universal Replicator pair.

• Reclaiming zero pages of a DP-VOL used by a journal volume.

Universal Volume Manager (Hitachi Universal Volume Manager User Guide)

Enabling volumes created by Universal Volume Manager to be used as pool-VOLs.

Increasing the capacity of a DP-VOL which is mapped to the Universal Volume Manager. If you try to increase the capacity of a DP-VOL with the conventional LDEV operation, the capacity of the DP-VOL will not be changed. In this case, remove the mapping between DP-VOL and Universal Volume Manager, increase a capacity of the external volume used as a pool-VOL, then perform the mapping between DP-VOL and the Universal Volume Manager again.

Virtual LUN (Provisioning Guide)

Registering Virtual LUN volumes in Dynamic Provisioning pools.

Performing Virtual LUN operations on volumes that are already registered in a DP pool.

Virtual Partition Manager (Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600 Performance Guide)

Performing operations on DP-VOLs and pool-VOLs.

Not applicable

Volume Shredder (Hitachi Volume Shredder User Guide)

Use on DP-VOLs.

• Using on pool-VOLs.

• Increasing the capacity of DP-VOL used by Volume Shredder.

• Reclaiming zero pages of V-VOL used by Volume Shredder.