I have 3 pools defined on my VNX5300 called pool0, pool1 and pool2. Pool 0 and 1 use a combination of SAS and NL-SAS drives. Pool 2 is only NL-SAS. Originally a "storage pool for file" was set up as a mapped pool to pool2. This was where I originally wanted to place my CIFS servers because of the type of data that would be present. However, now I have the need to have a CIFS server that points to a LUN on pool1.

I was thinking that I needed to define a mapped pool to pool 1 as well but I can't do this because I get the message "The storage system doesn't have a template pool that contains any available space.

What steps do I need to go through to get this defined?

Please help.

Thanks.