Creating a Storage Pool

A storage pool provides an abstract layer to implement physical isolation. The failure of a storage pool does not affect backup services in other storage pools.

Prerequisites

A storage unit has been created according to Creating a Storage Unit.

Procedure

On the navigation bar, choose > Storage Pool.
Click Create.

Figure 1 Create Storage Pool

Set basic information of a storage pool. Table 1 describes the parameters.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Description	Setting Rule
Name	Name of a user-defined storage pool	The name contains 1 to 128 characters and can contain letters, digits, plus signs (+), underscores (_), hyphens (-), periods (.), and at signs (@).
Description	Description of a storage pool	The description contains a maximum of 1,024 characters.
Storage Unit	Click . In the Add Storage Unit dialog box, select an existing storage unit or create a storage unit if no storage units are available. If you want to create a storage unit and enable Offline Transmission, add both the created S3 and NAS storage units.	A storage unit cannot be added to multiple storage pools.
Alarm Threshold	If the storage pool usage exceeds the threshold, an alarm is reported, prompting you to expand capacity or delete unneeded backup data. If you do not do so, subsequent backup jobs may fail.	An appropriate alarm threshold helps you monitor the capacity usage of a storage pool. The default threshold is 80%. You are advised to set this parameter to a value ranging from 70% to 90%.