Viewing formatted pool capacity

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

1. Perform one of the following to display the Pools window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click DP Pools of the target storage system, then select System GUI.

For Storage Navigator:

• In the Storage Systems tree on the left pane of the main window, select Pools.

2. From the Pools table on the right, click the row of a pool whose fee pool capacity you are confirming.

3. Click More Actions to select View Pool Management Status.

The View Pool Management Status window appears.

Following are cases where the free space of the pool is not formatted. In these cases, the free space of the pool may not increase:

• Pools other than the selected pool are being formatted.

• The pool usage level reaches up to the warning threshold or the depletion threshold.

• The selected pool is blocked.

• I/O loads to the storage system are high.

• The cache memory is blocked.

• Pool-VOLs in the selected pool are blocked.

• Pool-VOLs which are external volumes in the selected pool are blocked.

• Correction access executes to the pool-VOL in the selected pool.

 Following are cases where the formatted pool capacity can decrease:

• New pages are being allocated.

• LDEV format is being performed on the pool-VOL.

• Correction copy is being executed.