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Chapter 7 Thin Provisioning Pool Management
7.2 Functions in the Action Area for Thin Provisioning
ETERNUS Web GUI User’s Guide
Copyright 2013 FUJITSU LIMITED P2X0-1090-10ENZ0
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■ Automatically selecting drives to create TPPs
To create a new TPP automatically, select Disk Type, RAID Type, and input TPP capacity. The controlling CM of
the RAID groups that configure the TPP is determined automatically.
The procedure to create a TPP by selecting drives automatically is as follows:
Procedure
1 Click [Create] in [Action].
2 Select "Automatic" for the create mode, specify the other parameters, and click the [Create]
button.
• Name
Input a TPP name. An existing TPP name cannot be specified.
The following input conditions apply:
- Up to 16 alphanumeric characters and symbols (except ", (comma)" and "?")
- Space
• Disk Type
Select the type of drive that configures the TPP from the list box.
- Online
SAS disks
- Nearline
Nearline SAS disks
- SSD
- SED
• RAID Type
Select the type of RAID group that configures the TPP from the list box.
- High Performance (RAID1+0)
RAID1+0(2D+2M, 4D+4M, 8D+8M, 12D+12M) configuration is available
- High Capacity (RAID5)
RAID5(3D+1P, 4D+1P, 7D+1P, 8D+1P, 12D+1P) configuration is available
- High Reliability (RAID6)
RAID6(4D+2P, 6D+2P, 8D+2P) configuration is available
- Mirroring (RAID1)
RAID1(1D+1M) configuration is available
- Striping (RAID0)
RAID0(4D) configuration is available
• "Striping (RAID0)" has no data redundancy. Select "High Performance (RAID1+0)", "High
Capacity (RAID5)", "High Reliability (RAID6)" or "Mirroring (RAID1)" for the RAID Type.
• The number of RAID groups that configure a TPP is automatically determined by the selected
disk type, the RAID type, the specified total capacity of the Thin Provisioning Pool, and the
drives that are installed in the ETERNUS DX Disk storage system.