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Chapter 7 Thin Provisioning Pool Management
7.2 Functions in the Action Area for Thin Provisioning
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■ Automatically selecting drives to expand a TPP
The procedure to expand a TPP by selecting drives automatically is as follows:
Procedure
1 Select the TPP to be expanded and click [Expand] in [Action].
2 Select "Automatic" for the expansion mode, specify the TPP capacity after expanded, and
click the [Expand] button.
• Total Capacity after expand
Input the TPP total capacity in numeric characters after expansion is performed and select the units
of capacity from "TB", "GB", or "MB".
Drives are automatically selected according to the existing RAID group specifications, and the TPP
capacity is expanded to the entered value or higher. Refer to "The maximum number of TPP and
maximum TPP capacity for each model" (page 219) for details on the maximum TPP capacity.
→ A confirmation screen appears.
An error screen appears in the following conditions:
• When the capacity is not specified for "Total Capacity after expand"
• When the entered value in the "Total Capacity after expand" is equal to or lower than the existing
capacity
• When the total value of TPP capacity after expanded and existing TPP capacity exceeds the
maximum TPP capacity for each model
• When the TPP cannot be expanded over the specified capacity in the drive installed in the
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