HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 92)

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Enabling Smart Pool from RAID Manager automatically sets Tier Management to Manual. To
change Tier Management to Auto, you must do this in the Remote Web Console.
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If you delete a pool, its pool-VOLs (LDEVs) will be blocked. If they are blocked, format them
before using them.
Smart Tiers tasks and parameters
The following topics list the Smart Tiers tasks and parameter settings and indicate whether the tasks
can be performed or the parameters can be set in Remote Web Console (GUI) or RAID Manager,
or both.
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“Task and parameter settings” (page 92)
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“Display items and parameters settings” (page 93)
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“Display items and capacity usage for each tier” (page 94)
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“Display items and performance monitor statistics” (page 94)
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“Display items and status of performance monitor/relocation” (page 94)
Task and parameter settings
RAID
Manager RWC Parameter settings Task Element
Yes Yes Create Create THP pool
Yes Yes Pool name
Yes Yes Threshold
No
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Yes Smart Pool: Enable/Disable
No Yes Tier management: Auto mode
No Yes Tier management: Manual mode
No Yes Rate of space for new page assignment
No Yes Buffer Space for Tier relocation
No Yes Cycle Time
No Yes Monitoring period
No Yes Monitoring mode
Yes Yes Delete
Yes Yes Change settings Change Settings
Yes
2
Yes Pool name
Yes Yes Threshold
Yes Yes mart pool: enable/disable
Yes Yes Tier management: Auto to Manual
No Yes Tier management: Manual to Auto
Yes
3
Yes Buffer Space for New page assignment
Yes Yes Buffer space for Tier relocation
No Yes Cycle time
No Yes Monitoring period
92 Configuring thin provisioning