IBM DS8880 Thin Provisioning (Updated for Release 8.5)

Managing and monitoring thin-provisioned volumes

This chapter describes the IBM DS8880 monitoring and management capabilities of thin provisioning.

5.1 Management and monitoring capabilities

In the DS8880, thin provisioning and the associated real capacity are manageable at the extent pool level.

5.1.1 Options to reserve space and spare capacity

In 3.1, “DS8880 logical volumes” on page 18, we described an extent pool with its associated real capacity, virtual capacity, and repository capacity. The following options to reserve contingency capacity ...