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Clicking OK deletes all data on the selected disks.
i. Click OK.
6. Click Next.
7. Optional: Specify an alias for the volume.
The alias must consist of 1 to 64 characters from any of the following groups:
• Letters: A to Z, a to z
• Numbers: 0 to 9
• Special characters: Hyphen "-" and underscore "_"
8. Specify the capacity of the volume.
The volume type determines the maximum volume capacity.
Volume Type Maximum Size
Thick Amount of free space in the parent storage pool.
Thin Twenty times the amount of free space in the parent
storage pool
Setting the maximum size of a thin volume to a value that is greater than the amount of free space in
the storage pool is called over-allocation.
9. Specify the number of bytes per inode.
The number of bytes per inode determines the maximum volume size, and the number of files and
folders that the volume can store. Increasing the number of bytes per inode results in a larger
maximum volume size, but a lower maximum number of files and folders.
10. Configure advanced settings.
Setting Description
Alert threshold QTS issues a warning notification when the percentage of used disk space on the
volume reaches the specified value.
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