You can decrease the pool capacity for up to eight tasks at the same time.
For more information about decreasing pool capacity, formatting LDEVs, and the Shrink Pool window, see the Provisioning Guide for your storage system.
If processing ends abnormally, check the Tasks window.
- The used capacity of the pool-VOL must be below the pool threshold.
- If you are deleting pool-VOLs with system area, there must be more than 4.2 GB of available capacity.
- You must not be currently performing any of the following tasks:
- Creating a pool.
- Deleting a pool.
- Increasing a pool.
- Deleting a pool-VOL to decrease the pool capacity.
- Recovering a pool.
- Stopping the process of decreasing pool capacity.
- Editing a data pool warning threshold.
- Simultaneously running CCI commands to decrease the pool capacity.
- You must not be maintaining the cache memory.
- The cache memory must be up and running.
- The I/O load to the V-VOL related to the pool must be low.
- In CCI, use the raidcom delete pool command.
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In the
Pools tab, click the name of the pool for which you want to decrease capacity.
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In the
Pool Name window, in the
Pool Volumes tab, from the list of volumes, select the check box for the pool that contains the pool-VOLs you want to delete to decrease pool capacity, and then click
Shrink Pool.
Note: You can select one or more pool volumes.
The tiers in pools are deleted and the pool capacity is decreased.