Setting volume protection

To ensure that data on a volume is not overwritten, you set its status to protected. Protected volumes are excluded from replication.

1. In the menu bar, click Storage > Storage Systems.
2. On the Storage Systems page, click Volume Protection.
   The Volume Protection wizard is opened.
3. The Volume Protection wizard, select a storage system and complete the following steps:
4. Optional: Depending on the type of storage system:
   1. Select All IO Groups or a specific I/O group.
   2. Select All Logical Storage Subsystems or a specific logical storage subsystem.
   3. Select All Pools or a specific pool.
5. Optional: In the Volume field, select a single volume.
6. Optional: In the Volume Mask field, enter a sequence of characters and wildcards that match user-defined or system-defined volume IDs.
   To protect a specific volume, enter the volume ID such as ESS:2105.FCA57:VOL:1000. To use a pattern to retrieve one or more volume IDs, you can enter a partial volume ID and use the wildcard character (*) to represent zero or more characters.
   For example, to retrieve all volume IDs that contain the characters FCA57, you enter *FCA57*.
7. Click Next.
8. Verify the search results, and click Next.
9. Click Select All to protect all the volumes. Alternatively, select a check box next to the volumes that you want to protect.
10. Click Next.
11. Click Finish.