Volume components

To create Thin Image pairs, the following volumes are required.

Volume type

Volumes that can be used

Description

Primary

Logical volume (LDEV)

Logical volume of a P-VOL contains DP-VOLs (V-VOLs of which provisioning type is Dynamic Provisioning).

Secondary

Thin Image V-VOL (V-VOL of which provisioning type is Snapshot)

Use this volume to create snapshot pairs. Cannot be used for cascaded or cloned pairs.

This volume is required to create a pair with the S-VOL specified.

DP-VOL

Use this volume to create cascaded or cloned pairs.

This volume is required to create a pair with the S-VOL specified. Cloned pairs must be created with the S-VOL specified.

Pool

Logical volume (LDEV)

Volumes contained in a Thin Image pool. Differential data of a P-VOL is stored in a pool volume as snapshot data.