Creating the free and reserved pools of volumes

The IBM System Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service software maintains a free and a reserved pool of volumes. Because these objects do not exist on the Lenovo Storage V7000, the free and reserved pool of volumes are implemented as virtual host systems. You must define these two virtual host systems on the Lenovo Storage V7000.

1. Create a host for the free pool of volumes.
   • You can use the default name VSS_FREE or specify a different name.
   • Associate the host with the worldwide port name (WWPN) 5000000000000000 (15 zeroes).
2. Create a virtual host for the reserved pool of volumes.
   • You can use the default name VSS_RESERVED or specify a different name.
   • Associate the host with the WWPN 5000000000000001 (14 zeroes).
3. Map the logical units (volumes) to the free pool of volumes.
   Restriction: The volumes cannot be mapped to any other hosts.

   • If you already have volumes created for the free pool of volumes, you must assign the volumes to the free pool.
4. Create host mappings between the volumes selected in step 3 and the VSS_FREE host to add the volumes to the free pool.
   Alternatively, you can use the ibmvcfg add command to add volumes to the free pool.
5. Verify that the volumes have been mapped.