Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Working with volumes

The Volumes panel (Provisioning > Volumes) provides options to create volumes, add data protection to volumes, and to display a list of existing volumes and snapshots on the system.

For information about creating volumes, see Creating volumes.

If storage is not configured, the panel displays a prompt for you to add storage. Depending on the storage type selected:

• If virtual storage is configured, the top portion of the panel displays a color-coded graph for each pool that shows the amount of space on the system that is allocated to the base volume, allocated to snapshots, the total committed to volumes (reserved for the system but not written to), and unused space. Each named volume is shown in the Volumes table with columns for type, pool, size, attached hosts, capacity, and a slide-over for access to additional detail and actions.
• If linear storage is configured, each named volume is shown in the Volumes table with columns for type, disk group, size, attached hosts, and a slide-over for access to additional detail and actions