Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide

Creating a virtual volume

You can add volumes to a virtual pool. You can create an individual virtual volume, multiple virtual volumes with different settings, or multiple virtual volumes with the same settings. In the latter case, the volumes will have the same base name with a numeric suffix (starting at 0000) to make each name unique and they will be placed in the same pool. You can also select a volume tier affinity setting to specify a tier for the volume data.

The Create Virtual Volumes panel contains a graphical representation of storage capacity for pools A and B. Each graph provides the number of existing volumes, free space, allocated and unallocated space, and committed and overcommitted space for pool A or B. The graph for the specified pool of the prospective new virtual volume also shows the impact of storage space and the prospective new volume on the pool.

The volumes table in the Volumes topic lists all volumes, volume groups, and snapshots. To see more information about a virtual volume, hover the cursor over the volume in the table. Viewing volumes contains more details about the Volume Information panel that appears.