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  • Volume types and characteristics
    Volumes are data containers that manage and organize the storage space on your storage array.
  • Volume terminology
    The following terms apply to volumes.
  • Capacity for volumes
    The drives in your storage array provide the physical storage capacity for your data. Before you can begin storing data, you must configure the allocated capacity into logical components known as pools or volume groups. You use these storage objects to configure, store, maintain, and preserve data on your storage array.
  • Data integrity and data security for volumes
    You can enable volumes to use the Data Assurance (DA) feature and the Drive Security feature. These features are presented at the pool and volume group level.
  • SSD Cache and volumes
    You can add a volume to SSD Cache as a way to improve read-only performance. SSD Cache consists of a set of solid-state disk (SSD) drives that you logically group together in your storage array.
  • Application-specific workloads
    When creating a volume, you select a workload to customize the storage array configuration for a specific application.