Preservation capacity is the amount of capacity (number of drives) that is reserved on a pool to support potential drive failures. When a pool is created, System Manager automatically reserves a default amount of preservation capacity depending on the number of drives in the pool. If you have created volumes on all available usable capacity, you cannot increase preservation capacity without adding capacity to the pool by either adding drives or deleting volumes.

You can change the preservation capacity by selecting Storage, and then the Pools & Volume Groups tile. Select the pool that you want to edit. Click View/Edit Settings, and then select the Settings tab.