Volumes

Volumes are the basic storage units from which the total capacity of an array is apportioned. The number of volumes per array depends on how the storage is allocated.

Hosts connect to volumes using iSCSI or Fibre Channel. A volume appears to a host as a single disk drive, which can be used as a file system, a raw disk, or a virtual disk.

When you delete a volume, the snapshots that are associated with that volume are also deleted. If the volume has online snapshots, they must be taken offline before you can delete them.