Select Pool VOLs window

Use this window to add pool-VOLs to a pool. Only LDEVs assigned to the logged-on user are available.

Available Pool Volumes table

Only the LDEVs assigned to the user are displayed.

Item

Description

LDEV ID

Displays the LDEV identifier, which is the combination of LDKC, CU, and LDEV.

LDEV Name

Displays the LDEV name.

Capacity

Displays the pool-VOL capacity.

Parity Group ID

Displays the parity group ID.

RAID Level

Displays the RAID level. If an LDEV is an external volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Drive Type/RPM

Displays the data drive type and RPM. When the volume is the external volume, Drive Type displays External Storage.

Provisioning Type

Displays the type of the LDEV.

Basic: Internal volume.

External: External volume.

Cache Mode

Displays whether the cache mode is enabled. If the LDEV is not an external volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Encryption

Displays the information about parity group encryption.

Enabled: The encryption of the parity group which contains LDEV is enabled.

Disabled: The encryption of the parity group which contains LDEV is disabled.

If LDEV is a V-VOL for Dynamic Provisioning, external volume, or migration volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Resource Group Name (ID)

Displays the resource group names and IDs of the LDEV. The ID is provided in parentheses.

External LDEV Tier Rank

Specify the tier rank of the external volume. If there is no external volume in the Available Pool Volumes table or Selected Pool Volumes table, you cannot select this option.

Add

When you select a row in the Available Pool Volumes table and click Add, the selected pool-VOL is added to the Selected Pool Volumes table.

Up to 1,024 volumes can be added including the volumes already in the pool.

When adding a volume to the pool for which Multi-Tier Pool is enabled, note the following:

For a pool, you can add volumes whose Drive Type/RPM settings are the same and whose RAID Levels are different. For example, you can add the following volumes to the same pool:

Remove

When you select a row in Selected Pool Volumes table and click Remove, the selected pool-VOL is removed from the Selected Pool Volumes table.

Selected Pool Volumes table

Item

Description

LDEV ID

Displays the LDEV identifier, which is the combination of LDKC, CU, and LDEV.

LDEV Name

Displays the LDEV name.

Capacity

Displays the pool-VOL capacity.

Parity Group ID

Displays the parity group ID.

RAID Level

Displays the RAID level. If an LDEV is an external volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Drive Type/RPM

Displays the data drive type and RPM. When the volume is the external volume, Drive Type displays External Storage.

External LDEV Tier Rank

Displays the tier rank of the external volume. If the volume is not an external volume, a hyphen(-) is displayed.

Provisioning Type

Displays the type of the LDEV.

Basic: Internal volume.

External: External volume.

Cache Mode

Displays whether the cache mode is enabled. If the LDEV is not an external volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Encryption

Displays the information about parity group encryption.

Enabled: The encryption of the parity group which contains LDEV is enabled.

Disabled: The encryption of the parity group which contains LDEV is disabled.

If LDEV is a V-VOL for Dynamic Provisioning, external volume, or migration volume, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Resource Group Name (ID)

Displays the resource group names and identifiers of the LDEV. The identifier is provided in parentheses.