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The following information is displayed in the lower pane's Settings tab:

Description

Field

Group

Indicates if the selected volume is fully
provisioned or a thinly provisioned
virtual volume.

Provisioning

User Space Provisioning

The name of the Common Provisioning
Group (CPG) from which user space is
provisioned.

CPG

If enabled, the allocation warning
percentage.

Allocation Warning

If enabled, the allocation limit.

Allocation Limit

The disk type, Fibre Channel (FC),
Nearline (NL), or Solid State (SSD).

Device Type

User Space Allocation

The speed of the disk.

Device RPM

NOTE:

The Device RPM number does not represent a rotational speed for the

drives without spinning media (SSD). It is meant as a rough estimation of the
performance difference between the drive and the other drives in the system.
For FC and NL drives, the number corresponds to both a performance measure
and actual rotational speed. For an SSD drive, the number is to be treated as
relative performance benchmark that takes into account in I/O per second,
bandwidth, and the access time.

The RAID type of the disk.

RAID Type

The availability characteristics.

Configured Availability

The availability of Disk, Port, Cage, or
Mag.

Availability

The set size.

Set Size

The number of contiguous bytes in KB.

Step Size

Indicates if the selected volume is fully
provisioned or a thinly provisioned
virtual volume.

Provisioning

Copy Space Provisioning

The name of the Common Provisioning
Group (CPG) from which user space is
provisioned.

CPG

If enabled, the allocation warning
percentage.

Allocation Warning

Viewing the Virtual Volumes Tab

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