The Volumes window enables you to filter, sort, and edit
volumes for a single storage system, and to select volumes for data
protection. The window shows tiered, thin, and snapshot volumes. The tiered
volumes are DP-VOLs created
from Dynamic Tiering pools. The thin volumes are DP-VOLs created from Dynamic Provisioning pools. The snapshot volumes
are V-VOLs for Thin Image S-VOLs.
Note: The following volumes
are not displayed:
- Emulation type is not OPEN_V
- Volumes using Cache Residency Manager cache
- Volumes encrypted by Encryption License Key feature
- Pool volumes
- NAS boot volumes
- Deduplication system data volumes
- Thin/tiered volumes with data direct mapping enabled
- Volumes related to the Namespace for FC-NVMe in storage systems with microcode versions where Ops Center Administrator does not support NVMe over FC.
Access the inventory of volumes for a storage system to gain insight into volume size, data protection, and utilization. You can also create volumes, attach existing volumes and perform data protection functions.
Note: Volumes labeled HSA-reserved are created automatically when file pools are created and no procedures can be performed on them in Ops Center Administrator.
Note: The HA Consistency Group column does not display its value if a displayed volume is in a storage system without SVP.
The following actions are available on this window:
- To interrupt shredding processes, click Interrupt Shredding and confirm.
- If there are Data Protection Alerts, click the tile to view the alerts in the Monitoring tab.
- To add volumes on the Create Volumes window, click the plus sign (+).
- To view details and attach, update, or delete the volume, click a volume.
- To update the volume by editing the name or updating the Capacity Saving setting and command device settings, select a volume, then click the pencil icon. You can also expand the capacity.
- To edit the names of multiple volumes and enable or disable command device at the same time, select multiple volumes.
Select one or more volumes to perform one of the following actions:
- To delete volumes, click the trash icon. When you delete a volume, it is removed from the storage system.
- To attach volumes to one or more servers on the Attach Volumes window, click .
- To detach volumes from servers on the Detach Volumes window, click . Note: The command device configuration will be disabled if all the attached LUN paths are removed.
- To apply data protection on the Protect Volumes window, click and select Protect Volumes with Local Replication or Protect Volumes with High Availability.Note: Command devices cannot be protected. Do not perform this action for command devices.Note: Ops Center Administrator can protect volumes with high availability in existing replication group with following conditions:
- P-VOL STATUS and S-VOL STATUS of all paired volumes in the replication group is PAIR.
- Status of the corresponding replication in Ops Center Protector is OK.
- To unprotect a volume, select it, then click . Note: Ops Center Administrator can unprotect volumes with high availability in the replication group with following conditions:
- P-VOL STATUS and S-VOL STATUS of all paired volumes in the replication group is PAIR.
- Status of the corresponding replication in Ops Center Protector is OK.
- To restore a secondary volume to the primary volume, click to open the Restore Volume window.
- To attach the volume to a storage system to prepare for volume migration, click .
- To migrate volumes, click . Note: Command devices cannot be migrated. Do not perform this action for command devices.
- To detach volumes from storage, click . Note: The command device configuration will be disabled if all the attached LUN paths are removed.
- To shred volumes that have been migrated, click .
- Select a tiered volume, then click to update the tiering policy.
- To attach like volumes, click and select Attach Like Volumes with Local Replication or Attach Like Volumes with High Availability.
Click Open the Logical Devices window in Storage Navigator to open the Volumes inventory window and:
- Create a Command Device from a volume
- Restore a blocked volume
For more information, see the Storage Navigator online help.
Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator might not be reflected in Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.