Storage Pool Operations

Storage Pools are logical storage entities from which volumes are created. Storage Pools can be of two types:

•	RAID Group: Physical array of disks grouped in a RAID configuration

•	Thin Pool: Thin Provisioning Pool, same as a RAID Group with additional thin provisioning capabilities

The following operations allow administrators to automate the management of Storage Pool (RAID Group or Thin Pool) in the EMC disk arrays through EMC SMI-S Provider.

The supported operations for Storage Pools are:

•	get-storage-pool, to list the existing pools and their characteristics

•	create-storage-pool, to create a new pool in a storage system

•	delete-storage-pool, to remove an existing pool for a storage system

•	expand-storage-pool, to expand an existing pool for a storage system

•	get-raid-level, to list the available RAID Levels that can be configured for a new storage pool