Hardware manual

Group Administration Advanced volume operations
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If you detach a thin clone from a template volume, the thin clone is converted to a standard volume and no longer
shares space with the template volume. Therefore, when you detach a thin clone, the volume reserve for the thin
clone increases by the amount of space the thin clone shares with the template volume.
Note: If you detach a thin
clone from a template volume that is bound to a member or has a RAID preference, the
resulting volume does not inherit the binding or the RAID preference.
Restriction: Yo
u cannot detach a thin clone if replication is enabled for the thin clone.
1. Click
Volumes, then expand Volumes, then select the thin clone, and then click Detach from template.
2. Confirm that you want to detach the thin clone.
Displaying template volumes and thin clones
The procedure for displaying information about a template volume or a thin clone is the same as for any volume.
1. Click
Volumes, then expand Volumes, and then click the template volume or thin clone.
2. Click the
Status tab to display the Volume Status window.
3. Click the other tabs to display additional volume information.
For template
volumes, there is no
Collections tab. You cannot use a template volume in a volume collection.
For template volumes, click the
Thin Clones tab to display the thin clones that are attached to the template
volume.
To display thin clones under the template volume in the far
-left panel, pull down the tree view options menu and
select
Show thin clones under templates.
About volume collections
You can group multiple volumes for the purpose of performing an operation simultaneously on the volumes.
Volume collections are useful when you have multiple, related volumes.
A volume collection includes one or more vo
lumes from any pool. In a single operation, you can create snapshots
of the volumes (a snapshot collection) or replicas of the volumes (a replica collection).
Restriction: Yo
u cannot use a template volume in a volume collection.
Creating a volume collection
1. Click Volumes, then Volume Collections, and then Create volume collection.
2. In the Create Volume Collection – General Settings dialog box, specify a name (up to 63 ASCII characters) for
the collection and an optiona
l description (up to 127 ASCII characters). Then, click
Next.
3. In the Create Volume Collection – Components dial
og box, select the volumes to include in the collection (up
to eight volumes) and click
Next.