HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 4)

LUN Expansion..................................................................................................................36
LUN Manager...................................................................................................................36
Performance Monitor..........................................................................................................37
Business Copy...................................................................................................................38
Continuous Access Synchronous...........................................................................................38
Continuous Access Journal..................................................................................................39
External Storage................................................................................................................40
Open Volume Management................................................................................................41
Cache Partition..................................................................................................................41
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................41
Volume Shredder...............................................................................................................42
Configuration File Loader....................................................................................................42
CLI Spreadsheet for LUN Expansion.....................................................................................42
Performance Control...........................................................................................................43
3 Configuring custom-sized provisioning.........................................................44
Virtual LVI/Virtual LUN functions...............................................................................................44
VLL requirements.....................................................................................................................44
VLL specifications....................................................................................................................44
Virtual LUN specifications for open systems...........................................................................44
CV capacity by emulation type for open systems....................................................................45
VLL size calculations................................................................................................................45
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB).......................................................45
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)...................................................46
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)..................................46
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)..............................47
Calculating the size of a CV using Enhanced mode on SATA drives..........................................48
Management area capacity of an open-systems volume.....................................................49
Boundary values for RAID levels other than Enhanced mode on SATA drives.........................49
Boundary values for RAID levels (enhanced data protection level on SATA drives)..................49
Capacity of a slot..........................................................................................................49
Calculated management area capacities..........................................................................50
Configuring volumes in a parity group .................................................................................50
Create a variable-sized volume.................................................................................................50
Creating an LDEV..............................................................................................................51
Finding an LDEV ID............................................................................................................53
Changing LDEV settings......................................................................................................53
Removing an LDEV to be registered......................................................................................54
Blocking an LDEV...................................................................................................................54
Restoring a blocked LDEV........................................................................................................55
Editing an LDEV name.............................................................................................................55
Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)...............................................................................55
Formatting LDEVs....................................................................................................................56
About formatting LDEVs......................................................................................................56
Storage system operation when LDEVs are formatted..............................................................57
Quick Format function.........................................................................................................57
Quick Format specifications............................................................................................57
Formatting a specific LDEV..................................................................................................58
Formatting all LDEVs in a parity group..................................................................................58
Assigning a processor blade ...................................................................................................59
Assigning a processor blade to a resource............................................................................59
Changing the processor blade assigned to an LDEV...............................................................59
Using a system disk................................................................................................................59
System disk rules, restrictions, and guidelines.........................................................................60
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