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# Volume Templates screen details

If no resources are listed, you must create a resource. See Create a volume template.

- General

- Volume Properties

- Map view screen details

- Activity screen details

- Labels screen details

- Create or edit volume template

- Edit Settings

## General

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
Description | User-defined description for the volume template.
Storage system | Storage system that contains the storage pool to which the volume belongs.
Storage pool | Storage pool to which the volume belongs.
Snapshot storage pool | Storage pool from which to draw storage space for snapshots of the storage volume.

## Volume Properties

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
Capacity | Template capacity, in gibibytes (GiB).
Provisioning | Template provisioning setting: `Thin` or `Full`.
Sharing | Template sharing setting: `Shared` or `Private`.

## Create or edit volume template

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
Name | Enter a name for the volume template.
Data type: | A maximum of 255 characters; no leading spaces
Description | Enter a description of the volume template (optional).
Storage pool | Select the storage pool in which volumes created from the template will be created.
Snapshot storage pool | Select the storage pool from which to draw storage space for snapshots of the storage volume.
Capacity | Enter the capacity for volumes created from the template: a value between 1 GiB and 16 TiB (tebibytes).
Provisioning | Choose the provisioning setting for the volume created from the template: `Thin` or `Full`.
Thin | Starts with a small set of block storage that expands to fill the volume as the space is consumed.
Full | The volume consumes the full capacity when you create it.
Sharing | Choose the sharing setting: `Shared` or `Private`.
Shared | The volume can be used by more than one server profile.
Private | The volume can be used by only one server profile. Can be used to boot from SAN
Buttons | See Button functions for information about how buttons operate.

## Edit Settings

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
Require template for volume creation | Select this option to prevent volumes from being created without using a volume template. You can still add external volumes without using a template.
Buttons | See Button functions for information about how buttons operate.

See also

- About volume templates

- Create a volume template

- Edit a volume template

- Activity screen details

- Labels screen details

- Map view screen details

- Volume Templates

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