HP P4000 9.0 HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Solution User Guide - Page 237

Defining SmartClone volume characteristics When creating SmartClone volumes, you define the following characteristics. Table 52 Characteristics for new SmartClone volumes SmartClone volume characteristic Quantity SmartClone Name Provisioning Server Permission What it means The number of SmartClone volumes you want to create. You can create up to 25 as one operation in the CMC, and then repeat the process to create the desired number of SmartClone volumes. Use the CLI to create larger quantities of SmartClone volumes in a single operation. The name of the SmartClone volume that is displayed in the CMC. A volume name is from 1 to 127 characters and is case sensitive. The name cannot be changed after the volume is created. SmartClone volumes default to Thin Provisioning. You can select Full Provisioning when you create them. You can also edit the individual volumes after they are created and change the type of provisioning. Server assigned to the volume. While you can only assign one server when you create SmartClone volumes, you can go back and add additional clustered servers later. For more information, see "Assigning server connections access to volumes" on page 264. Type of access to the volume: Read, Read/Write, None Naming SmartClone volumes Because you may create dozens or even hundreds of SmartClone volumes, you need to plan the naming convention for them. For information about the default naming conventions built into the SAN/iQ software, see "Setting naming conventions" on page 30. When you create a SmartClone volume, you can designate the base name for the volume. This base name is then used with numbers appended, incrementing to the total number of SmartClone volumes you create. For example, Figure 83 on page 238 shows a SmartClone volume with the base name of "C#" and 10 clones. (The number in parentheses indicates how many snapshots are under that volume.) P4000 SAN Solution user guide 237