Increasing DP-VOL capacity

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

1. Perform one of the following to display the Expand V-VOLs window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click Volumes of the target storage system, then select System GUI. On the LDEVs tab, select Expand V-VOLs.

For the Logical Devices window in Storage Navigator:

• Expand the Storage Systems tree and select Logical Devices. On the LDEVs tab, select the LDEV to be edited, click More Actions, then select Expand V-VOLs.

• Expand the Storage Systems tree and select Logical Devices. Click Actions > Logical Device > Expand V-VOLs to open the window.

For the Pools window in Storage Navigator:

• Expand the Storage Systems tree and select Pools. On the Virtual Volumes tab, select the LDEV to be edited, click Expand V-VOLs.

• Expand the Storage Systems tree and select Pools. On the Virtual Volumes tab, click Actions > Logical Device > Expand V-VOLs to open the window.

2. Select Specify Total Capacity or Specify Additional capacity .

3. To offset the specified LDEV capacity by boundary, change the default Offset Boundary from OFF to ON.

4. In Capacity, type the capacity amount.

Enter the LDEV capacity to two decimal places within the range of values indicated below the text box.

5. Click Finish.

The Confirm window opens.

6. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply.

If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.