When you provision storage, you want to be able to assign the appropriate storage for the particular application. Veritas Access supports a variety of storage types. To help the users that provision the storage to select the appropriate storage, you classify the storage into groups called storage pools. A storage pool is a user-defined way to group the disks that have similar characteristics.

Veritas Access supports a wide variety of storage arrays, direct attached storage as well as in-server SSDs and HDDs. During the initial configuration, you add the disks to the Veritas Access nodes. For a storage array, a disk is a LUN from the storage array. For best performance and resiliency, each LUN should be provisioned to all Veritas Access nodes. Local disks and fully shared disks have unique names, but partially shared disks across nodes may have the same name. Make sure that you do not assign LUNs from the same enclosure to different nodes partially.

Before you can provision storage to Veritas Access, the physical LUNs must be set up and zoned for use with the Veritas Access cluster. The storage array administrator normally allocates and zones the physical storage.

Veritas Access does not support thin reclamation disks.

After the disks are correctly discovered by Veritas Access, you assign the disks to storage pools. You create a file system on one or more storage pools. You can mirror across different pools. You can also create tiers on different pools, and use SmartTier to manage file system data across those tiers.

You can also use local disks that are shared over the network. Both DAS disks and SAN disks (LUNs) can be used by the same cluster, and you can have a mix of DAS and SAN disks in the same storage pool.