The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) shows some disks with a different icon (red wedge in circular disk icon)
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Cause
This icon represents thin provisioned luns (Harddisk5 and Hardisk6), and is used to differentiate these from standard disks (Harddisk0 and Harddisk1).
Thin provisioning is a technology to allocate disk storage on an as needed basis. Disks that support thin provisioning are disks that can allocate storage as data is written to the disk. In addition, some of these disks can reclaim unused storage on the disk.
Resolution
This icon does NOT indicate any issues, and is expected when thin provisioned disks are zoned to a server running InfoScale or SFW.
Note: There is one known cosmetic/minor issue when it comes to disks incorrectly showing as thin provisioned luns as described in the product Release Notes:
This may cause VEA to show non thin provisioned disks as thin provisioned; however, any attempts to run thin provision disk operations will fail.DCM or DRL logs on thin provisioned disks causes all disks for the volume to be treated as thin provisioned disks. Having a volume on a disk that is not a thin provisioned disk and then adding a DCM or DRL log that resides on a thin provisioned disk to the volume, causes the volume to be enabled for thin provision disk operations. Performing thin provision disk operations in this situation causes the operations to fail.
Issue/Introduction
