Thin Image pairs
A Thin Image pair consists of a P-VOL, one or more S-VOLs, and a pool. An S-VOL is only necessary if you want to create a Thin Image pair with an S-VOL specified. Otherwise, a Thin Image pair consists of a P-VOL and a pool.
The P-VOL is an individual logical data volume, or logical device (LDEV). The S-VOL is a V-VOL. LDEVs include V-VOLs of provisioning type HDP. Only a V-VOL created for Thin Image can be specified as an S-VOL. P-VOL differential data is stored as snapshot data in pool-VOLs (LDEVs).
To use Thin Image, HDP, and the other VSP family storage system software applications, you must acquire licenses from Hitachi.