IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

Volumes

In IBM SAN Volume Controller, a volume is a logical disk that the system presents to attached hosts. This chapter describes the various types of volumes and it provides guidance for managing the properties.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•5.1, “Overview of volumes” on page 178

•5.2, “Guidance for creating volumes” on page 178

•5.3, “Thin-provisioned volumes” on page 182

•5.4, “Mirrored volumes” on page 191

•5.5, “HyperSwap volumes” on page 195

•5.6, “VMware virtual volumes” on page 196

•5.7, “Cloud volumes” on page 200

•5.8, ...