You can create volumes from a pool. By enabling capacity saving (deduplication and compression), you can reduce the amount of data stored, depending on the characteristics of the data.
To create a volume that shares data reduction with snapshots, capacity saving (deduplication and compression) must be enabled.
- Ensure that a pool is available.
- Obtain the following:
- Pool name
- Whether the capacity saving setting is specified
- Whether to share data reduction with snapshots
- Capacity
- Number of volumes
- Volume name
- Make sure that the user performing the procedure has been assigned the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role.
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Specify the required information.
Specify Apply to snapshot for DATA REDUCTION SHARE for operation.
For the name of a volume, specify a name that is a combination of Volume Name and a number beginning with Suffix Start Number (optional).
For example, if you specify "volume" for Volume Name, "7" for Suffix Start Number, and "2" for Number of Digits, the volume name will be "volume07".
The volume are displayed in the inventory of volumes.