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Static Volume

  • Create static volumes on a RAID group to acquire the best overall read/write performance
  • Add physical drives to increase storage capacity
  • Does not support snapshot backup/recovery


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    Thick Volume

  • Pre-allocate a specific storage capacity for thick volumes, ensuring available resources are reserved for an application
  • Allocate more space from the parent storage pool for increasing capacity
  • Supports snapshot backup/recovery


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    Thin Volume

  • When data is written to the volume, storage pool space is allocated to thin volumes on-demand for maximizing space utilization
  • Allocate more space from the parent storage pool for increasing capacity
  • Supports snapshot backup/recovery and pool guaranteed snapshot space


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    Block-based iSCSI LUN

  • Mount iSCSI LUN space to another NAS or virtual server using the iSCSI protocol.
  • Use storage space from storage pool
  • Supports snapshot backup/recovery