Creating a storage pool

This topic describes how to create a storage pool.

Prerequisites

You must have Administrator privileges to perform this task.

Context

SAN File System console provides a wizard to step you through the process of creating a storage pool. This wizard creates volumes and assigns the volumes to the storage pool.

To create a storage pool from the administrative command-line interface, you must first create the volumes using the mkvol command, and then create the storage pool using the mkpool command.

Steps

  1. To start the wizard to create a storage pool, click Manage Storage > Create a Pool from the My Work frame. View the list of steps to create a storage pool and click Next.

  2. Under Pool Settings in the Create a Storage Pool panel, fill in the Name field (for example, My_New_Pool) and the Description field (for example, A pool I created). Optionally, select Logical Partition Size, Allocation Size and Usage Threshold. Click Next. Clicking Toggle Help Assistant after entering values in the fields clears the fields.
  3. Under Select Client, select a client and a fetch method to gather the available LUNs information for the next step, adding volumes to the storage pool. Click Next.
  4. Under Add Volumes, select an LUN (for example, VPD83NAA6=60050768018200281800000000000036) from the table. Click Next.
  5. Under Volume Settings, fill in the Volume Name Prefix field (for example, My_New_Pool), and click Next.
  6. Verify your settings, and then click Finish.
  7. Click Manage Storage > Pools from the My Work frame to verify that the storage pool was created.

Parent topic: Managing storage pools

Related concepts
Storage pools

Related reference
Create a Storage Pool - Add Volumes panel
Create a Storage Pool - Introduction panel
Create a Storage Pool - Select Client panel
Create a Storage Pool - Pool Settings panel
Create a Storage Pool - Verify Settings panel
mkpool

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