HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software - Manual (Page 8)

Ongoing capacity management.............................................................................................148
Number of volumes and snapshots.....................................................................................148
Reviewing SAN capacity and usage...................................................................................148
Measuring disk capacity and volume size...........................................................................152
Changing the volume size on the server..............................................................................153
Changing configuration characteristics to manage space......................................................154
12 Using volumes......................................................................................155
Volumes and server access....................................................................................................155
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................155
Planning volumes..................................................................................................................155
Planning how many volumes.............................................................................................155
Planning volume types......................................................................................................155
Guide for volumes................................................................................................................155
Creating a volume................................................................................................................157
Creating a basic volume...................................................................................................157
Configuring advanced volume settings [optional].................................................................158
Volumes map view................................................................................................................158
Editing a volume..................................................................................................................158
To edit a volume..............................................................................................................159
Deleting a volume.................................................................................................................161
Restrictions on deleting volumes.........................................................................................161
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................161
To delete the volume........................................................................................................161
13 Using snapshots....................................................................................162
Types of snapshots................................................................................................................162
Uses and best practices for snapshots.................................................................................162
Planning snapshots...............................................................................................................163
Prerequisites for application-managed snapshots..................................................................164
Creating snapshots...............................................................................................................164
Editing a snapshot...........................................................................................................166
Scheduling snapshots............................................................................................................166
Best practices for scheduling snapshots of volumes...............................................................166
Requirements for snapshot schedules..................................................................................167
Scheduling snapshots for volume sets..................................................................................167
Creating a schedule to snapshot a volume..........................................................................168
Mounting a snapshot............................................................................................................170
Mounting the snapshot on a host.......................................................................................170
Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available...............................................171
Managing snapshot temporary space.................................................................................173
Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point...................................................................173
Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point..............................................................174
Deleting a snapshot..............................................................................................................176
14 SmartClone volumes..............................................................................178
What are SmartClone volumes?.............................................................................................178
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................178
SmartClone volume terminology.........................................................................................178
Example scenarios for using SmartClone volumes.................................................................179
Planning SmartClone volumes................................................................................................180
Space requirements..........................................................................................................180
Naming convention for SmartClone volumes........................................................................181
Server access..................................................................................................................181
Defining SmartClone volume characteristics..............................................................................181
Naming SmartClone volumes.................................................................................................182
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