Changing a Dynamic Tiering or active flash pool to a pool for Dynamic Provisioning

You can use this procedure to change a Dynamic Tiering or active flash pool to a Dynamic Provisioning pool. However, you cannot change the pool status of Dynamic Tiering to disable in the following cases:

  • Tier relocation is being executed manually.
  • Pool-VOLs are being deleted.
  • Zero pages are being reclaimed.

Before you begin

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.

Procedure

  1. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.

  2. Click Pools.

  3. In the Pools tab, select a pool to be changed.

  4. Perform one of following to display the Edit Pools window.

    1. Click More Actions and select Edit Pools.

    2. Click Actions > Pool > Edit Pools to open the window.

  5. In the Edit Pools window, check Multi-Tier Pool.

  6. Select Disable and click OK in the warning message.

  7. Click Finish.

    The Confirm window appears.

  8. In the Task Name text box, enter the task name.

    You can enter up to 32 ASCII characters and symbols in all, except for \ / : , ; * ? " < > |. The value "date-window name" is entered by default.

  9. In the Confirm window, click Apply to register the setting in the task.

    If the Go to tasks window for status check box is selected, the Tasks window appears.
Parent Topic
  • Configuring thin provisioning

    Thin provisioning technology allows you to allocate virtual storage capacity based on anticipated future capacity needs, using virtual volumes instead of physical disks. Thin provisioning is an optional provisioning strategy for your storage systems. Thin provisioning is implemented by creating one or more Dynamic Provisioning pools (DP pools) of physical storage space.