Create IBM Storwize Pool
- Summary
- Create IBM Storwize Pool
- Description
- This task creates a new storage pool. A pool or storage pool is a collection of MDisks that jointly contain all of the data for a specified set of volumes. All MDisks in a pool are split into extents of the same size. Volumes are created from the extents that are available in the pool. You can add MDisks to a storage pool at any time either to increase the number of extents that are available for new volume copies or to expand existing volume copies. You can specify a warning capacity for a storage pool. A warning event is generated when the amount of space that is used in the storage pool exceeds the warning capacity. This is especially useful in conjunction with thin-provisioned volumes that have been configured to automatically consume space from the storage pool.
- Inputs
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Input Description Mappable To Type Mandatory Account Name Choose an IBM Storwize account accountName Y Pool Name Enter a name for the storage pool gen_text_input Y Extent Size Choose the extent size IBMStorwizeExtentSizeList Y Maximum Addressible Size Maximum addressible size Warning Threshold(0 to 100)% Enter a warning threshold value between 0 to 100 gen_text_input Y MDisks Choose one or more unassigned MDisks ibmStorwizeMdiskIdentity - Outputs
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Output Description Type IBM_STORWIZE_OUTPUT_POOL_IDENTITY Output of pool identity ibmStorwizePoolIdentity IBM_STORWIZE_OUTPUT_ACCOUNT_NAME Output of infra account name accountName IBM_STORWIZE_OUTPUT_DATACENTER Output of datacenter name on which selected operation was performed datacenterName IBM_STORWIZE_OUTPUT_TARGET_POOL_NAME Output of target pool name gen_text_input