Volumes are shipped already created on HDS and Symmetrix storage systems. When you create a volume in the management server on these storage systems, you are defining the volume as being allocated.

Keep in mind the following:

•Some vendor's tools for HDS might round off the volume size, so that a 6.87-GB volume appears as 7 GB (7168 MB) in the tool. The management server displays the size of the volume without rounding. For example, assume you want to create a 14-GB (14336 MB) LUSE volume, and according to the storage tool, you have two 7-GB LDEVs, which are really 6.87 GB (7034.88 MB). If you look at the native tool, it would be logical to assume only two LDEVs would be used to create the 14-GB LUSE volume. The management server would use three LDEVs because each LDEV is really 6.87 GB.

•If you are creating a volume on an HP EVA storage system, its external SMI-S provider may round the specified number of megabytes to the nearest whole gigabyte.

•You cannot create volumes in existing storage pools on HP MSA and EVA storage systems.

•PvLinks based on HP disk partitions are not supported. Any volumes created on such PvLink meta devices are shown as local. If you partition a regular (non-PvLink) external disk and create volumes based on it, then volumes are recognized as external volumes.

Keep in mind the following for HDS storage systems:

•A LUSE volume on an HDS storage system is not created until you map that volume to a target array port. In the management server, the create volume and LUN creation tasks are two different operations. So if you want to create a LUSE volume and perform LUN creation on the HDS box, it is a two-step process. First, use the management server to create LUSE volumes. The management server puts volumes in the repository as grouped LDEVs. Then, create a LUN and map a volume to a target port, by creating a host security group. See the topic, ”Creating Host Security Groups” on page 334 and ”Rules for Creating Host Security Groups” on page 329.

•HDS ships some of its storage systems with volumes already created. When the software first discovers an HDS storage system, it detects the volumes created by HDS. When you use the software's “create a volume” feature, you are assigning the already created volume. See the topic, ”About Provisioning on HDS Storage Systems” on page 343 for more information.

•LUSE made up of volumes from different RAID levels are not supported. You cannot use this product to provision this type of LUSE. Existing LUSE of this type maybe incorrectly reported.

Keep in mind the following for Engenio storage systems:

•Make sure you select a volume group that can accommodate the requested size for the new volume.

•You can create volumes from existing free extent areas within a volume group.

•No volume-to-LUN masking is done by default, except for CLARiiON storage systems. See the topic, ”Creating Host Security Groups” on page 334 and ”Rules for Creating Host Security Groups” on page 329.

To create a storage volume:

1.Access the Create Storage Volume wizard by doing the following:

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