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Description

Subfield

Field

Changing the volume criteria can change the system selected parity group.
If desired, click Select Parity Groups to make your selection.

Parity Groups

Click Select Pool to select the THP pool from which to allocate volumes.
Changing the volume criteria can change the system selected THP pool.

Pool

Creating Volume Settings and related fields are only displayed when
entered volume criteria requires that a new volume be created. See the
previous definition for Volume Capacity field for an example.
This field displays formatting methods that are available for the volume to
be created, and available for basic volumes on the specified storage
system. For example, you might see options for setting either a quick or a
basic format.

Format Type

Creating
Volume Set-
tings

This field displays stripe size options for the volume to be created, as
supported by the specified storage system (for example, 64 KB).

Stripe Size

This field only displays allocating volumes for created users (those not as-
sociated with built-in accounts), and allows them to potentially source the
volume or volumes from multiple resource groups to which they have access
rights, as configured for their account type.

-

Resource
Group

Volume labels are searchable, and therefore recommended as a way to
find volumes.
Select the check box to add a LDEV label. If the target volume is an existing
volume with a current label, the new label is applied to the volume.

-

Specify a new
label

The smallest number of sequential numbers. The Initial value is not required,
but can be useful for differentiation when allocating multiple volumes. For
each volume, the number is in ascending order of LDEV ID.

-

Initial value

Reflect these labels to the storage system is checked by default so that
naming is consistent between Command View AE Suite and the storage
system itself. If the selected storage system does not support label setting,
this item is not displayed.

-

Reflect these
labels to the
storage sys-
tem

Select cache logical partition (CLPR) values from the list and assign this
value to THP volumes when two conditions are met: the target storage
system supports CLPR, and THP volumes are selected.
Select either of the following values: Automatically, which assigns the
default value if it is a new volume (if it is an existing volume, the CLPR is
unchanged), or CLPR, which assigns a CLPR number (0-9...) to the
unallocated volume.

-

CLPR for THP
volume

Click LUN Path Options to display the fields and buttons for configuring
LUN paths (the storage port to host port mappings that connect volumes
to hosts).

(See the follow-
ing two fields for
details)

>> LUN Path
Options

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