HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software User Manual

Hp p4000 san solution user guide

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P4000 SAN Solution User Guide
1 Getting started
- Using the CMC
- Configuring systems to add to management groups
- Using the Map View
  - Using the display tools
  - Using views and layouts
- Setting preferences
  - Setting the font size and locale
  - Setting naming conventions
    - Changing naming conventions
- Creating storage by using the Getting Started Launch Pad
- Finding storage systems after the first time
  - Controlling which storage systems appear in the CMC
  - Troubleshooting—Storage systems not found
    - Possible reasons for not finding storage systems
- Setting up the CMC for remote support
2 Working with storage systems
- Storage system configuration categories
  - Storage system configuration category definitions
- Storage system tasks
- Powering off or rebooting the storage system
- Upgrading the SAN/iQ software on the storage system
- Registering advanced features for a storage system
- Determining volume and snapshot availability
- Checking status of dedicated boot devices
  - Checking boot device status
    - Getting there
  - Replacing a dedicated boot device
3 Configuring RAID and Managing Disks
- Getting there
- Configuring and managing RAID
- RAID Levels
- Explaining RAID devices in the RAID setup report
  - RAID devices by RAID type
    - Virtual RAID devices
- Planning the RAID configuration
- Setting RAID rebuild rate
  - General guidelines for setting the RAID rebuild rate
  - Setting the RAID rebuild rate
- Reconfiguring RAID
  - To reconfigure RAID
  - Configuring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives
- Monitoring RAID status
  - Data reads and writes and RAID status
  - Data redundancy and RAID status
- Managing disks
- Replacing a disk
4 Managing the network
- Network best practices
- Changing network configurations
- Managing settings on network interfaces
- The TCP/IP tab
  - Identifying the network interfaces
  - Pinging an IP address
    - To ping an IP address
- Configuring the IP address manually
- Using DHCP
- Configuring network interface bonds
- Disabling a network interface
  - Configuring a disabled interface
- Using a DNS server
- Setting up routing
- Configuring storage system communication
  - Selecting the interface used by the SAN/iQ software
  - Updating the list of manager IP addresses
5 Setting the date and time
- Management group time
- Getting there
- Refreshing the management group time
- Using NTP
- Editing the date and time
- Editing the time zone only
6 Administrative users and groups
- Getting there
- Managing administrative users
  - Default administrative user
    - Adding a new administrative user
  - Editing administrative users
- Managing administrative groups
  - Default administrative groups
    - Adding administrative groups
      - What the permission levels mean
  - Editing administrative groups
7 Monitoring the SAN
- Monitoring SAN status
  - Configuring the SAN Status Page
  - Using the SAN Status Page
- Alarms and events overview
- Working with alarms
- Configuring events
- Working with events
- Setting up email notification
  - Setting up the email server
  - Setting up email recipients
- Setting up SNMP
- Running diagnostic reports
  - List of diagnostic tests
- Generating a hardware information report
  - Saving a hardware information report
  - Hardware information report details
- Using log files
8 Working with management groups
- Functions of management groups
- Guide for management groups
- Creating a management group
  - Creating a new management group
  - Best practice for managers in a management group
- Managers overview
- Configuration Summary overview
  - Summary roll-up
  - Configuration guidance
    - Best practices
    - Reading the configuration summary
- Best Practice summary overview
- Management group maintenance tasks
- Safely shutting down a management group
  - Prerequisites
    - Shut down the management group
    - If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts
  - Start the management group back up
    - Restarted management group in maintenance mode
    - Manually change management group to normal mode
- Removing a storage system from a management group
  - Prerequisites
    - Remove the storage system
- Deleting a management group
  - Prerequisites
    - Delete the management group
  - Setting the management group version
9 Using specialized managers
- Failover Manager
  - Planning the virtual network configuration
  - Failover Manager requirements
- Using the Failover Manager on Microsoft Hyper-V Server
  - Installing the Failover Manager for Hyper-V Server
- Using the Failover Manager for VMware
- Virtual manager
10 Working with clusters
- Clusters and storage systems
- Creating a cluster
  - Cluster Map View
- Monitoring cluster usage
- Editing a cluster
- Maintaining storage systems in clusters
- Troubleshooting a cluster
  - Auto Performance Protection
    - Auto Performance Protection and the VSA
    - Auto Performance Protection and other clusters
  - Repairing a storage system
    - Prerequisites
- Deleting a cluster
11 Provisioning storage
- Understanding how the capacity of the SAN is used
- Provisioning storage
- Provisioning volumes
- Provisioning snapshots
- Ongoing capacity management
12 Using volumes
- Volumes and server access
  - Prerequisites
- Planning volumes
  - Planning how many volumes
  - Planning volume types
- Guide for volumes
- Creating a volume
  - Creating a basic volume
  - Configuring advanced volume settings [optional]
    - Configuring advanced volume settings
- Volumes map view
- Editing a volume
  - To edit a volume
- Deleting a volume
13 Using snapshots
- Types of snapshots
  - Uses and best practices for snapshots
- Planning snapshots
  - Prerequisites for application-managed snapshots
- Creating snapshots
  - Editing a snapshot
- Scheduling snapshots
- Mounting a snapshot
- Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
  - Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
- Deleting a snapshot
14 SmartClone volumes
- What are SmartClone volumes?
- Planning SmartClone volumes
- Defining SmartClone volume characteristics
- Naming SmartClone volumes
- Shared versus individual characteristics
- Clone point
- Shared snapshot
- Creating SmartClone volumes
- To create a SmartClone volume
- Viewing SmartClone volumes
  - Map view
    - Using views
    - Viewing clone points, volumes, and snapshots
- Editing SmartClone volumes
  - To edit the SmartClone volumes
- Deleting SmartClone volumes
  - Deleting the clone point
  - Deleting multiple SmartClone volumes
15 Working with scripting
- Scripting documentation
16 Controlling server access to volumes
- Change in server access control from version 7.0 and earlier
- Adding server connections to management groups
- Managing server connections
  - Editing server connections
  - Deleting server connections
- Clustering server connections
- Assigning server connections access to volumes
- Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup
17 Monitoring performance
- Prerequisites
- Introduction to using performance information
  - What can I learn about my SAN?
    - Current SAN activities example
    - Workload characterization example
  - Fault isolation example
- What can I learn about my volumes?
  - Most active volumes examples
  - Activity generated by a specific server example
- Planning for SAN improvements
- Accessing and understanding the Performance Monitor window
- Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters
- Performance monitoring and analysis concepts
- Changing the sample interval and time zone
- Adding statistics
  - Viewing statistic details
- Removing and clearing statistics
- Pausing and restarting monitoring
- Changing the graph
- Exporting data
  - Exporting statistics to a CSV file
  - Saving the graph to an image file
18 Registering advanced features
- Evaluation period for using advanced features
  - Starting the evaluation period
  - Backing out of Remote Copy evaluation
- Scripting evaluation
  - Turn on scripting evaluation
  - Turn off scripting evaluation
- Registering advanced features
- Saving and editing your customer information
19 iSCSI and the HP P4000 SAN Solution
- Number of iSCSI sessions
- Virtual IP addresses
  - Requirements for using a virtual IP address
- iSNS server
- iSCSI load balancing
  - Requirements
    - Compliant iSCSI initiators
- Authentication (CHAP)
  - Requirements for configuring CHAP
- iSCSI and CHAP terminology
  - Sample iSCSI configurations
  - Best practice
- About HP DSM for MPIO
20 Using the Configuration Interface
- Connecting to the Configuration Interface
- Logging in to the Configuration Interface
- Configuring administrative users
- Configuring a network connection
- Deleting a NIC bond
- Setting the TCP speed, duplex, and frame size
- Removing a storage system from a management group
- Resetting the storage system to factory defaults
21 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
  - Subscription service
- HP Insight Remote Support Software
- New and changed information in this edition
- Related information
  - HP websites
- Customer self repair
A Replacing hardware
- Replacing disks and rebuilding data
- Replacing the RAID controller
B Third-party licenses
C SANiQ TCP and UDP Port Usage
Glossary
Index