Updating volumes

Ops Center Administrator User Guide

Version

11.0.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99ADM001-21

You can expand and rename a single volume and enable or disable capacity saving (deduplication and compression), command device setting, and ALUA mode.

You can also rename volumes and enable or disable capacity saving(deduplication and compression) and command device at the same time if you select multiple volumes.

Expanding protected volumes is supported for the following storage systems:

VSP One B20
VSP E series
VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900
VSP G1x00, F1500
VSP 5100, 5500, 5100H, 5500H
VSP 5200, 5600, 5200H, 5600H

Note: From the Ops Center Protector block device advanced system settings, you can set the storage system prerequisite advanced system settings. This does not apply to VSP G1x00, F1500 storage systems.

Note: For VSP One B20, you cannot disable capacity saving.

Tip: You can change the DRS settings type of the existing volume using the Migrate volumes job.

To expand a protected volume, see the relevant hardware manual to confirm that all prerequisite conditions are met.

To update a volume, navigate to the volume details by using one of the following options:
- From the dashboard, click Storage Systems, and then click a storage system tile to view the resources. Click Volumes, and then click the volume tile for the volume that you want to update.
- From the dashboard, click Servers, and then click a server tile to view the volumes. Click a volume tile for the volume that you want to expand.
In the Volume Detail window, click Edit to open the Update Volume window.

Note: To reset a volume to the default settings, click Reset.
You can rename the volume and change the size by clicking the up and down arrows next to the volume size.
Under Change Compression Type, select Compression or Deduplication and Compression to change the type. To disable compression, select No.
Note:
- If Deduplication and Compression is enabled and you want to update to Compression, you must first update the option to No and then update it again.
- You can set capacity saving for volumes based on tiered pools for the following storage systems:
  - VSP 5000 series
  - VSP G1x00 and VSP F1500 with microcode version 80-05-4x or later.
You can update command device settings by selecting Change Value under Change Command Device Settings. To keep current settings, select Keep Current Value.
Note:
- You can enable or disable command devices.
- When changing the command device setting, you must specify the command device security, user authentication, and device group setting.
- If selected command devices have different settings or command devices belongs to a storage system without an SVP, then command device security, user authentication, and device group setting are displayed as empty values. When updating at least one of these attributes, set all three attributes.
- If you have protected, T10 Pl, or ALUA volumes, then you cannot enable them as command devices. The ALUA setting and command device settings cannot be updated at the same time.
Click Submit.
Note:
- If you have registered Ops Center Protector 7.2.5 or later, you do not need to complete a pair operation (split pair/resync pair) in advance to expand the HA pair volume.
- To use the new version of Ops Center Protector after an upgrade installation, wait four hours or restart the Ops Center Administrator service so that the Ops Center Protector version information is correctly updated.
  To restart the service, see "Restart the service" in Managing the Ops Center Administrator service.
- For HA paired volumes, regardless of whether you change the volume size, this operation expands the capacity if the paired volume capacity is smaller than the target volume capacity. The HA paired volumes will have the same capacity.

A job is started to update the volume.