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Creating FlexVol volumes
You can create a FlexVol volume for your data by using the Create Volume dialog box. You should always create a volume for your data rather than storing data in the root volume.
Before you begin 
The cluster must contain a non-root aggregate and a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM).
About this task 
You can enable storage Quality of Service (QoS) only for a read-write (rw) volume.
Steps 
1.
From the home page, double-click the appropriate storage system.
2.
Expand the Storage Virtual Machines hierarchy in the left navigation pane.
3.
In the navigation pane, select the SVM 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 these features 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.
If you want to enable storage QoS for the FlexVol volume to manage workload performance, select the Enable Storage Quality of Service check box in the Quality of Service tab.
12.
Create a new storage QoS group policy or select an existing group policy to control the input/output (I/O) performance of the FlexVol volume:
If you want to...
Then do the following...
Create a new group policy
a.
Specify the group policy name.
b.
Specify the maximum throughput limit to ensure that the workload of the objects in the group policy do not exceed the specified throughput limit.
Select an existing group policy
Select Existing Group Policy and choose a group policy from the list of existing group policies. You can also choose to modify the maximum throughput for the selected group policy.
Note: If the group policy is assigned to more than one object, the maximum throughput that you specify is shared among the objects.
13.
Click Create.
14.
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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