Creating Custom Compressed Volumes - IBM Storwize V5010 Manual

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4. Next, in the General sub-section enter the caching mode as Enabled, Read-only or

Disabled as shown in Figure 6-28. Also enter unit device identifier (UDID) if this volume is

going to be mapped to an OpenVMS host.

Figure 6-28 General details

5. Click Create to define the volume as shown in Figure 6-29.

Figure 6-29 Task completed, the thin-provisioned volume is created

6.5.2 Creating Custom Compressed volumes

The configuration of compressed volumes is similar to thin-provisioned volumes. To create a

Compressed volume, complete the following steps:

1. From the Create Volumes window, select the Custom option. In the Volume Location

subsection define the pool in which the volume is created.Use the drop-down menu in the

Pool option to choose the pool.

Chapter 6. Volume configuration

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