Volumes - Click the name of the volume to view its properties. If the storage system has a large number of volumes, you are shown a Load Volumes button instead of the name of a volume. Click the Load Volumes to view the volumes for a storage pool. To view the volumes for all storage pools, click the Load All Volumes button.

Capabilities - Click the RAID level or name to view its properties.

*Mainframe -Displays whether the storage pools have volumes that are on a mainframe.

**Delete - Click the button corresponding to the storage pool you want to delete. See the topic, Deleting a Storage Pool (Engenio and CLARiiON Only)” on page 322 for more information.

NOTE: To create a storage pool, click the New Storage Pool button in the upper-right corner of the page. See the topic, Creating a Storage Pool (Engenio, CLARiiON, Sun 6130 and Sun 35xx)” on page 321 for more information.

*This option is available to only HDS storage systems.

**These options are available to only Engenio, CLARiiON, Sun 6130, and Sun 35xx storage systems.

Deleting a Storage Pool (Engenio and CLARiiON Only)

IMPORTANT: When you delete a storage pool on an Engenio storage system, all the volumes for the volume group are deleted, including the placeholder volume.

To delete a storage pool:

1.Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Provisioning Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager.

2.In the right pane, click the Storage Systems tab.

3.In the right pane, click the Provision button corresponding to the storage system in which you want to delete a storage pool.

4.Click Step 1 Storage Pool.

5.Click the button corresponding to the storage pool you want to delete.

When you delete a storage pool, you are warned about the other volumes that will be deleted.

6.Click OK.

7.The storage pool and its volumes are deleted.

Managing Volumes

This section describes the following:

Accessing Information About Volumes” on page 323

Creating a Storage Volume” on page 324

Deleting a Storage Volume” on page 327

Changing the Cache Block Size for a Storage System” on page 328

322 Provisioning Manager