Free Capacity and Volume Creation

A minimum amount of free space in the selected Storage Domain is required to create a logical volume.

When you create a new volume, the actual amount of physical capacity that is consumed from the free space in the Storage Domain includes the capacity that is needed to accommodate the system overhead that is associated with the volume, such as the capacity that is required for RAID protection.

A request to create a logical volume can fail because of one of the following reasons: