IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

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Volumes

This chapter explains how to create, manage, and migrate volumes (formerly known as vdisks) across I/O groups. It also explains how to use IBM FlashCopy.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•Overview of volumes

•Creating volumes

•Volume migration

•VMware Virtual Volumes

•Preferred paths to a volume

•Cache mode and cache-disabled volumes

•Using IBM Spectrum Virtualize or Storwize with FlashSystem

•FlashCopy services

•Configuration Backup

4.1 Overview of volumes

Three types of volumes are possible: Striped, sequential, and image. ...

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