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To start the process of creating a volume, navigate to the Volumes menu and click the 
Volumes option of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize GUI
7.2.1  Creating basic volumes
Basic volumes are supported in any system topology and are common to all configurations. 
Basic volumes can be of any type of virtualization: striped, sequential, or image. They can 
also use any type of capacity savings: thin-provisioning, compressed, or none. Deduplication 
can be configured with thin-provisioned and compressed volumes in data reduction pools for 
added capacity savings. 
To create a basic volume, click Basic as shown in Figure 7-11 on page 260. This action 
opens Basic volume menu where you can define the following parameters:
/SM590000Pool: The Pool in which the volume is created (drop-down menu).
/SM590000Quantity: Number of volumes to be created (numeric up or down).
/SM590000Capacity: Size of the volume in specified units (drop-down menu).
/SM590000Capacity Savings (drop-down menu):
–N o n e
– Thin-provisioned
– Compressed
/SM590000Name: Name of the volume (cannot start with a number).
/SM590000I/O group.
Note: The ability to create HyperSwap volumes by using the GUI simplifies creation and 
configuration.