Storage Pools
A storage Pool is an aggregation of physical storage resources (disks) in a
contain information about the storage ports through which they can be accessed. You can provision logical
storage spaces, known as
, from storage pools.
You can choose one or more storage pools when adding a storage system to the appliance. Storage Pools
are created on a storage system using the management software for that system. You cannot create or delete
storage pools from the appliance-you can only add or remove them from management. After you add Storage
Pools, you can provision volumes on them.
Storage Pools Overview
Use HPE StoreEasy management console to create, edit, grow, and delete storage pools. A storage pool
contains a set of physical disk drives that are grouped together and from which one or more Virtual Disks are
created.
Pool set may offer two 11-drive pools with drive designated as a spare, which is available to either pool.
Creating Storage Pool
The Storage Pool can be created by:
Creating storage pool using HPE StoreEasy management console
Creating Storage Pool using HPE StoreEasy management console
The HPE StoreEasy management console is used to create storage pools and assign spare drives.
The following table describes the fields that are available on Storage Pool page:
Field
Description
Name
Storage Pool name
Total Size
Total size of the Storage Pool
Used Size
Storage space used by the Storage Pool
Utilization
Horizontal graph representing the utilized storage
space
Resiliency Setting
RAID type used by the Storage Pool
Follow the steps to create Storage Pool in HPE StoreEasy management console:
1.
Open
HPE StoreEasy
.
2.
Click
Storage Subsystems
in the left pane.
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