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Chapter 8. Storage pools 

Draft Document for Review January 29, 2013 12:52 pm

Storage pools act as a container for MDisks and provision the capacity to volumes. They are 
comparable to MDisk Groups in IBM SAN Volume Controller or an array or a group of disks 
managed by a storage controller. IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node organizes storage in 
storage pools to ease storage management and make it more efficient. Storage pools and 
MDisks are managed in MDisks by Pools window. You can access the MDisks by Pools 
window by clicking Home

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 Overview and clicking the Pools icon. Extended help 

information for storage pools is displayed, and if you click Visit Pools, the MDisks by Pools 
window opens. This was shown previously in Figure 8-23 on page 314

The other way to access the Pools window is to click the icon to the left that shows a physical 
harddisk - the Pools icon.

The MDisk by Pools window (Figure 8-60) allows you to manage storage pools, both internal 
and as external. All existing storage pools are displayed row-by-row. The first row contains the 
item Not in a Pool, containing all unmanaged MDisks, if any exist.

To make the view more clear and structured, filters can be used to show only those storage 
pools matching the conditions defined in the Filter field in the upper right of the window. In 
Figure 8-61 on page 338 we show how to filter on 

 and 

 showing us only MDisk 

Pools with the name 

 as part of the name.