You can use other software product volumes as TrueCopy P-VOL or S-VOL, if you have those other software products.
The following table lists the types of volumes by software product and indicates whether the volume can also be used as a TC P-VOL or a TC S-VOL.
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Volume type |
Used as TC P-VOL? |
Used as TC S-VOL? |
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Active flash |
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DP-VOL |
Yes |
Yes |
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Pool-VOL |
No |
No |
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Cache Residency Manager (VSP 5000 series) |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Virtual LUN |
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Virtual LUN volume |
Yes |
Yes |
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Thin Image 6 |
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P-VOL in all statuses except RCPY |
Yes |
Yes |
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P-VOL in RCPY status |
No |
No |
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S-VOL |
No |
No |
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Pool-VOL |
No |
No |
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P-VOL in all statuses except RCPY |
Yes | Yes |
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P-VOL in RCPY status |
No | No |
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S-VOL |
No | No |
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Cross-OS File Exchange |
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Volume usable by both mainframe and open systems |
No |
No |
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Data Retention Utility |
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Volume with Read/Write attribute |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume with Read Only attribute |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume with Protect attribute |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume that is disabled for use as an S-VOL |
Yes |
No |
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Dynamic Provisioning |
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DP-VOL |
Yes |
Yes |
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Pool-VOL |
No |
No |
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V-VOL with capacity saving enabled |
Yes |
Yes |
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Deduplication system data volume |
No |
No |
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Dynamic Tiering |
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DP-VOL |
Yes |
Yes |
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Pool-VOL |
No |
No |
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Global-active device (GAD) |
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P-VOL |
No |
No |
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S-VOL |
No |
No |
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Quorum disk |
No |
No |
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Volume with reserve attribute for S-VOL |
No |
No |
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Global storage virtualization |
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Volumes in a virtual storage machine1 |
Yes |
Yes |
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LUN Manager |
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Volume to which an LU path is defined |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume defined as a namespace for NVMe |
Yes9 |
Yes9 |
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Volume that is protected by namespace security for NVMe-oF |
Yes9 |
Yes9 |
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Volume to which no LU path is defined or a volume that is not defined as a namespace for NVMe |
No |
No |
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Volume to which LUN security is applied |
Yes |
Yes |
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ShadowImage (SI) |
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P-VOL in PSUS (Delete pair to RCU) status |
Yes |
Yes7 |
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P-VOL in COPY(RS-R)/RCPY status |
No |
No |
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SI P-VOL is also used as a UR P-VOL or S-VOL |
No |
No |
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P-VOL (none of the above) |
Yes |
Yes7 |
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S-VOL in PSUS (Delete pair to RCU) status |
Yes |
No |
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S-VOL (none of the above) |
No |
No |
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Reserved volume (VSP 5000 series) |
No |
No |
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Universal Replicator (UR) |
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P-VOL in COPY status |
No |
No |
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P-VOL in PAIR status |
Yes2, 8, 10 |
No3 |
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P-VOL in PSUS (Delete pair to RCU) status |
Yes2, 8,10 |
No3 |
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P-VOL in PSUE (pair suspended-error) status |
Yes2, 8, 10 |
No3 |
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S-VOL in COPY status |
No |
No |
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S-VOL in PAIR status |
No |
No |
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S-VOL in PSUS (Delete pair to RCU) status |
Yes2, 8, 10 |
No |
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S-VOL in SSWS status |
Yes2, 8, 10 |
No |
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S-VOL in PSUE (pair suspended-error) status |
Yes2, 8, 10 |
No |
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Journal Volume (VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models, VSP E series) |
No |
No |
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Universal Volume Manager |
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Mapped external volume |
Yes |
Yes |
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Virtual Partition Manager (VPM) |
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Volume belonging to the Virtual Partition Manager CLPR |
Yes |
Yes |
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Volume Migration5 |
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Source volume (when volume migration is in progress) |
Yes. (If the source volume is a P-VOL, volume migration will stop.) |
Yes. (If the source volume is an S-VOL, volume migration will stop.)4 |
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Source volume (after volume migration is finished) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Target volume |
No |
No |
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Reserved volume (VSP 5000 series) |
No |
No |
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Notes:
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