- Free capacity
- Disk group
- Virtual disk
- Virtual disk
- Virtual disk
- Hot spare physical disk
- Unconfigured capacity
Capacity on a storage array that has not been assigned to a or is divided into two types: and .
Unconfigured capacity is the storage space on a storage array that you have not organized into disk groups. Another way to think of unconfigured capacity is that it is made of the physical disks that you have not assigned to disk groups. Unconfigured capacity can only be configured as disk groups.
Free capacity is the storage space in a disk group that you have not configured into virtual disks. Free capacity can only be configured as virtual disks.
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Free capacity is available in three situations:
If you make a virtual disk that does not use all of the free capacity in a disk group
If you delete a virtual disk from a disk group
If you add physical disks to a disk group