Creating a tiered storage pool

Virtual Storage Platform One File Administrator User Guide

Version
1.7.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-24VSP1F003-09
ft:lastEdition
2026-04-07

Create a tiered storage pool, which is a combination of system drives from high-performance storage, such as flash memory, and system drives from lower-performance storage, such as Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Near Line SAS (NL SAS).

  1. Navigate to Provisioning > Capacity > Storage Pools, and then click Create Storage Pool.
  2. On the Choose Storage Pool Type page, in the A Tiered Storage Pool tile, click Create.
  3. In the Details page, complete the following information, and then click Next.
    1. Enter the storage pool name.
    2. Enable or disable the warning threshold. If you enable the threshold, set the threshold size. The default is 90.

    Details of the storage pool
  4. In the Tier 1 User Data page, select four or more system drives to create a storage pool, and then click Next.
    A tiered storage pool can contain system drives with different disk types if they are in different tiers on the RAID system. A tiered storage pool cannot contain system drives with different RAID levels on the RAID system.

    Selecting the system drives for tier 1 user data
  5. In the Tier 0 Metadata page, select four or more system drives, and then click Next.

    Selecting the system drives for tier 0 metadata
  6. In the Summary page, review the storage pool configuration, and then click Create.