Configuring custom-sized provisioning

Configuring custom-sized provisioning involves creating and configuring custom-size volumes (CVs). CVs are created by dividing a fixed-sized volume (FV) into several smaller volumes of arbitrary sizes.

• Spare drives and copy-back mode

• Virtual LUN functions

• Virtual LUN requirements

• Virtual LUN specifications

• Virtual LUN size calculations

• Enabling accelerated compression

• Disabling accelerated compression

• Parity groups and volumes

• Configuration of interleaved parity groups

• Managing parity groups

• Create LDEV function

• Blocking LDEVs

• Blocking LDEVs in a parity group

• Restoring blocked LDEVs

• Restoring blocked LDEVs in a parity group

• Editing an LDEV name

• Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)

• Formatting LDEVs

• Assigning an MP unit