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Manage volumes and workloads

You can modify storage by managing volumes and workloads.

  • Increase capacity of a volume
    You can resize a volume to increase its reported capacity.
  • Change settings for a volume
    You can change a volume's settings such as its name, host assignment, segment size, modification priority, caching, and so on.
  • Add volumes to workload
    You can add unassigned volumes to an existing or new workload.
  • Change workload settings
    You can change the name for a workload and view its associated application type.
  • Initialize volumes
    A volume is automatically initialized when it is first created. However, the Recovery Guru might advise that you manually initialize a volume to recover from certain failure conditions. Use this option only under the guidance of technical support. You can select one or more volumes to initialize.
  • Redistribute volumes
    You redistribute volumes to move volumes back to their preferred controller owners. Typically, multipath drivers move volumes from their preferred controller owner when a problem occurs along the data path between the host and storage array.
  • Change controller ownership of a volume
    You can change the preferred controller ownership of a volume, so that I/O for host applications is directed through the new path.
  • Change cache settings for a volume
    You can change read cache and write cache settings to impact the overall I/O performance of a volume.
  • Change media scan settings for a volume
    A media scan is a background operation that scans all data and redundancy information in the volume. Use this option to enable or disable the media scan settings for one or more volumes, or to change the scan duration.
  • Delete volume
    You can delete one or more volumes to increase the free capacity of a pool or volume group.