Basic volumes

A basic volume is the simplest type of volume, consisting of a copy in a single storage pool.

A basic volume is a volume that has only one physical copy. Basic volumes reside in a single pool on one site. In addition, basic volumes are supported in any system topology and are common to all configurations. A basic volume can be of any type of virtualization: striped, sequential, or image; they can also use any type of capacity savings: none, thin-provisioning, or compressed.