Dell equallogic creating volume

Are you new to Equallogic? Even if you are not, I would talk to Dell support to find out what is going on, and to help with other best practices.
Personally I would recommend smaller volumes if at all possible. With volumes that large, you will find it very hard to get enough space for a snapshot or clone, and you won't have the option to move data around to other volumes to manage capacity.

Hi all,
I have 2 Dell Equallogic PS6100 setup RAID6 with 14.92 TB of available space.The storage pool is default and there is only one member in each group. I created a 6TB volume(thick prov) on say SAN01 and still have like 8TB to create more volumes. But when creating a volume on SAN02 i see i can only use 7.46 TB.If i create a volume of 6TB i only have 1TB left.(when i created the volume on SAN01 i could use the whole 14.92TB). These SAN's have never gone into production and were setup identical by a previous engineer until the remote management phase. Why does SAN02 only let me use half of the space?
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