Creating an Infinite Volume

You can create Infinite Volumes to provide a large, scalable data container with a single namespace and a single mount point. You can use Infinite Volumes to storage large unstructured repositories of primary data that is written once and seldom used.

Before you begin

•	Aggregates must be created according to the aggregate requirements for Infinite Volumes.

•	An SVM that can contain an Infinite Volume must be created.

•	If you want to create read/write (rw) volumes, you must have configured the protocols for the SVM and must have installed either the SnapMirror or the SnapVault license.

If you have not configured the protocols but have installed any one of these licenses, you can only create data protection (DP) volumes.

About this task

You can create only Infinite Volumes without storage classes by using System Manager. If you want to create Infinite Volumes with storage classes, you cannot use System Manager; you must use OnCommand Workflow Automation instead.

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 > Infinite Volumes.

4.	Click Create.

5.	If you want to change the default name, specify a new name.

6.	Specify a junction path to mount the volume.

7.	Select Data Protection if you are creating a SnapMirror destination volume.

You are provided read-only access to this volume.

The number of aggregates that the volume spans is displayed.

8.	Click Edit to modify the list of aggregates that are available to the Infinite Volume.

9.	Specify the size of the volume and the percentage of the total volume size that you want to reserve for Snapshot copies.

The minimum size of the volume is 1.33 TB for each node used. The default space reserved for Snapshot copies is five percent.

10.	Select Enable SnapDiff to enable incremental tape backup of the volume.

You can enable SnapDiff only on volumes of type read-write.

11.	If you want to enable deduplication, compression, or both on the volume, make the necessary changes in the Storage Efficiency tab.

You can enable storage efficiency settings only on volumes of type read-write.

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.

12.	Click Create.

13.	Verify that the volume you created is displayed in the Infinite Volume window.

The volume is created with unified style security and UNIX 700 "read write execute" permissions for the Owner.

Related concepts

Aggregate requirements for Infinite Volumes