Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS EqualLogic Group Manager Administrator s Guide PS Ser - Page 429

Create Volume Wizard • Volume Settings • Space • Define iSCSI Access Points • Access Types • Volume Tags • Sector Size • Summary Table 216. Volume Settings Field Volume settings Description Shortcut Name (Required) Name that uniquely identifies the volume. Name can be up to 63 bytes and is case-insensitive. You can use any printable Unicode character except for First and last characters cannot be a period, hyphen, or colon. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. Alt+A Description (Optional) Descriptive text about the volume's purpose or other distinguishing characteristics. Maximum length is 127 bytes. Fewer characters are accepted for this field if you type the value as a Unicode character string, which takes up a variable number of bytes, depending on the specific character. Alt+D Create volume in folder (Optional) You create folders before running the wizard. Folders are for Alt+F organizational purposes only. If no folders exist for the group, this option is disabled. Storage pool assignment If the group has multiple storage pools, select the storage pool that you want to create the volume in. Unless otherwise specified, the default storage pool is used. None Table 217. Space Field Volume space Volume size Description Shortcut Numeric value that specifies the size of the new volume. Select appropriate units (MB, GB, or TB) from the list. The minimum volume size is 1MB. The maximum volume size is given, based on the physical capacity of your storage pool. Alt+S Thin provisioned volume Enables thin provisioning on the volume. Thin provisioning allocates space based on how much space is actually used, but gives the impression that the entire volume size is available. For example, a 100GB volume can be thin provisioned so that only 20GB is physically allocated; the remaining 80GB becomes unreserved space still available to the storage pool. Additional space can be allocated to the volume as necessary. Alt+T Snapshot space Snapshot reserve Specifies how much additional space should be reserved to store snapshots of this Alt+R volume. The default setting is 100% of the maximum volume size. Reference: GUI Panels, Wizards, and Dialog Boxes 429