Hardware manual

Group Administration Table of Contents
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Configuring access control records ....................................................................................................................... 9-10
Modifying or deleting an access control record .................................................................................................... 9-11
About cloning volumes ......................................................................................................................................... 9-11
Cloning a volume............................................................................................................................................ 9-11
Modifying a volume name or description ............................................................................................................. 9-12
Modifying a volume alias...................................................................................................................................... 9-13
Modifying the administrator for a volume ............................................................................................................ 9-13
Setting a volume offline or online......................................................................................................................... 9-13
Modifying volume permission .............................................................................................................................. 9-14
Allowing or disallowing multi-host volume access .............................................................................................. 9-14
Enabling or disabling iSNS discovery .................................................................................................................. 9-14
Deleting a volume ................................................................................................................................................. 9-15
10 Advanced volume operations........................................................................................................ 10-1
About thin provisioning ........................................................................................................................................ 10-1
Thin provisioning space settings .................................................................................................................... 10-2
Enabling thin provisioning on a volume......................................................................................................... 10-3
Disabling thin provisioning on a volume ....................................................................................................... 10-3
Modifying the thin provisioning space settings.............................................................................................. 10-4
About reported volume size .................................................................................................................................. 10-5
Increasing the reported size of a volume ........................................................................................................ 10-5
Decreasing the reported size of a volume....................................................................................................... 10-6
About template volumes and thin clones .............................................................................................................. 10-6
Space considerations for template volumes and thin clones .......................................................................... 10-7
Restrictions on template volumes and thin clones.......................................................................................... 10-8
Converting a standard volume to a template volume ..................................................................................... 10-8
Converting a template volume to a standard volume ..................................................................................... 10-9
Creating a thin clone....................................................................................................................................... 10-9
Detaching a thin clone from a template volume............................................................................................. 10-9
Displaying template volumes and thin clones .............................................................................................. 10-10
About volume collections.................................................................................................................................... 10-10
Creating a volume collection........................................................................................................................ 10-10
Displaying volume collections ..................................................................................................................... 10-11
Displaying details for a volume collection................................................................................................... 10-11
Status tab....................................................................................................................................................... 10-11
Snapshots tab ................................................................................................................................................ 10-11
Replicas tab................................................................................................................................................... 10-12
Schedules tab ................................................................................................................................................ 10-12
Modifying a volume collection..................................................................................................................... 10-12
Deleting a volume collection........................................................................................................................ 10-13
Scheduling volume operations ............................................................................................................................ 10-13
Schedule attributes........................................................................................................................................ 10-13
Creating a schedule....................................................................................................................................... 10-14
Displaying volume schedules ....................................................................................................................... 10-15
Modifying a schedule ................................................................................................................................... 10-15
Deleting a schedule....................................................................................................................................... 10-15
Enabling and disabling a volume RAID preference............................................................................................ 10-16
Binding and unbinding a volume to a member ................................................................................................... 10-16
Managing a volume or snapshot with lost blocks ............................................................................................... 10-17