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2.

In the General group box:
a.

In the Include column on the left, check the appropriate boxes to include properties in the
template. The list of values for each property are listed in the Defined Value column on
the right. Include any properties for which you wish to define specific values to be used
by the template. Checking the Allow Override checkbox allow users to modify that
property's value when applying the template.

b.

Use the following table as a guide when choosing which properties to include:

Include in the template in order to...

Property

specify the percentage of used copy administration or copy space which results in
an alert.

Allocation Warning

set the growth increment, different than the default. The minimum growth increment
and default varies according to the number of controller nodes in the system (see
table):

Growth Increment

Minimum

Default

# of Nodes

8GB

32GB

1-2

16GB

64GB

3-4

24GB

96GB

5-6

32GB

128GB

7-8

set the threshold when the LD space exceeds this amount.

Growth Warning

set the threshold at which the system stops creating additional LDs to support volumes
that draw space from a CPG.

Growth Limit

set the disk type to Fibre Channel (FC), Nearline (NL), or Solid State (SSD).

Device Type

set the disk speed.

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.

set the VV's RAID type.

RAID Type

specify the VV's set size.

Set Size

3.

Click Next to enter allocation setting information, or click Finish.

Step 2. Allocation Settings

1.

In the Include column on the left, check the appropriate boxes to include properties in the
template. The list of values for each property are listed in the Defined Value column on the
right. Include any properties for which you wish to define specific values to be used by the
template (for example, a step size of 128 KB). Checking the Allow Override checkbox allow
users to modify that property's value when applying the template.

Creating Common Provisioning Group Templates

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