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Creating FlexVol volumes
You can create a FlexVol volume for your data by using the Create Volume dialog box.
Before you begin 
The cluster must contain a non-root aggregate and a Vserver.
About this task 
You should always create a volume for your data, rather than storing data in the root volume of a Vserver.
Steps 
1.
From the Home tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.
2.
Expand the Vservers hierarchy in the left navigation pane.
3.
In the navigation pane, select the Vserver and click Storage > Volumes.
4.
Click Create.
5.
If you want to change the default name, specify a new name.
6.
Select the containing aggregate for the volume.
7.
Select the type of storage for which you are creating this volume.
You have to select Data Protection if you are creating a SnapMirror destination volume. You are provided read-only access to this volume.
8.
Specify the size of the volume and the percentage of the total volume size that you want to reserve for Snapshot copies.
The default space reserved for Snapshot copies is zero percent for SAN and VMware volumes. For NAS volumes, the default is five percent on storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.1.
9.
If you want to enable thin provisioning for the volume, select Thin Provisioned.
When thin provisioning is enabled, space is allocated to the volume from the aggregate only when data is written to it.
10.
If you want to enable deduplication, compression, or both on this volume, make the necessary changes in the Storage Efficiency tab.
You cannot enable compression on a 32-bit volume.
System Manager uses the default deduplication schedule. If the specified volume size exceeds the limit required for running deduplication, the volume is created and deduplication is not enabled.
11.
Click Create.
12.
Verify that the volume you created is included in the list of volumes in the Volume window.
The volume is created with UNIX style security and UNIX 700 "read write execute" permissions for the Owner.
Related reference 
Volumes window

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