HP XP Array Manager Software - Manual (Page 5)

Required roles and resource groups by function ...................................................................... 78
Creating user groups .......................................................................................................... 92
Editing a user group ........................................................................................................... 93
Assigning resource groups and roles to a user group .............................................................. 93
Changing a user’s user group .............................................................................................. 94
5 Provisioning storage ......................................................................... 95
Creating a storage operating environment ................................................................................... 95
Allocating storage .................................................................................................................... 95
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 96
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 96
Notes on performing quick formats ....................................................................................... 97
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 97
Create Volumes dialog box ................................................................................................. 98
About shredding volume data ............................................................................................ 100
Shredding volume data ..................................................................................................... 101
About deleting unallocated volumes ................................................................................... 102
Deleting unallocated volumes ............................................................................................ 102
About creating a LUSE volume ........................................................................................... 102
Creating a LUSE volume .................................................................................................... 103
About releasing a LUSE volume .......................................................................................... 104
Releasing a LUSE volume ................................................................................................... 104
Virtualizing external storage ..................................................................................................... 105
About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes ....................................................................... 105
Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system ............................................................... 106
Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system ................................... 107
Unvirtualizing volumes ...................................................................................................... 108
Virtualize Volumes dialog box ............................................................................................ 109
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................. 113
About virtualizing storage capacity ..................................................................................... 114
Creating a THP/Smart pool ............................................................................................... 115
Create Pool dialog box ..................................................................................................... 117
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................. 121
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................. 122
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool .............................................................................................. 124
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings .................................................................................... 124
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................. 125
Expanding THP/Smart volumes .......................................................................................... 125
Reclaiming zero pages ...................................................................................................... 126
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ............................................................................................... 126
About virtualizing storage tiers ........................................................................................... 126
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................. 128
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools .............................................. 129
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ...................................................... 129
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes .............................................................................. 130
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes .......................................................................... 131
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes .................................................................... 131
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................. 132
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................ 133
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ........................................................... 134
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................... 135
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................ 135
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes .......................................................... 136
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool .......................................................... 137
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