Modifying volume properties
Perform this task to modify the
properties for previously created volumes.
Steps
Perform the following steps to modify volumes that have
been created:
- From the IBM Director Task pane, click Multiple Device Manager.
- Click Manage Storage Units.
- Drag the Volumes icon to the Group Contents pane and drop it
on the selected storage device. The Volumes panel opens.
The volumes panel
includes the following action buttons and the Volumes table:
- Create. Click to create a new volume.
- Assign host. Click to assign a host to a volume.
- Unassign host. Click to unassign a host to a volume.
- Properties. Click to view a volume.
You can sort the columns of the Volumes table by clicking the right mouse
button on the table header and selecting Sort->Edit Sort.
- On the Volumes panel, click Properties. The Volume
Properties panel opens.
- On the Volume properties panel, you can view the following read-only
fields for the associated volumes:
- Storage type
For the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS), the types are:
For FAStT, the types are:
- RAID 0
- RAID 1
- RAID 3
- RAID 5
- Available arrays that have the selected storage type on the associated
ESS or FAStT
- Volume quantity
- Volume size (GB)
- Defined SVC ports
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