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Manage volumes overview

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After you display a list of volumes in System Manager, you can perform various actions to manage the volumes.

Some volume types are not available using System Manager, including the following volumes:

  • Vol0

  • DEL and TMP type volumes

  • FlexGroup constituents

  • Replicated volumes in a MetroCluster configuration

Steps

  1. In System Manager, click Storage > Volumes.

    The list of volumes is displayed.

  2. You can perform the following:

To perform this task…​

Take these actions…​

Add a volume

Click Add icon. See Add a volume.

Manage multiple volumes

Check the boxes next to the volumes.

  • Click Delete icon to delete the selected volumes.

  • Click Protect icon to assign a protection policy to the selected volumes.

  • Click more icon to select one of the following actions to perform for all selected volumes:

    • Enable quota

    • Take offline

    • Move

    • Show Deleted Volumes

Manage a single volume

Next to the volume, click Menu options icon, then select one of the following actions to perform:

  • Edit

  • Resize (Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, and only for online volumes and DP FlexVol volumes)

  • Delete

  • Clone

  • Take Offline (or Bring Online)

  • Enable Quota (or Disable Quota)

  • Edit Export Policy

  • Edit Mount Path

  • Move

  • Edit Cloud Tier Settings

  • Protect

Rename a volume

You can rename a volume from the overview page.

Click Edit icon next to the volume name, and then modify the name of the volume.