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Managing qos rules – HP 3PAR Operating System Software User Manual

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Description

Field

Group

The total number of expired virtual volumes.

Expired Volumes

The total number of unexported virtual volumes.

Unexported Volumes

If exported, the name of the host the virtual volume set is exported
to.

Exported To

Any user-created comments.

Comments

Virtual Volumes

Health

The total number of new alerts.

New Alerts

The current state. See

“System and Component Status Icons”

(page 506)

.

State

Select the device type, Fast Class (FC), Near Line (NL), or Solid
State Device (SSD). The capacity and capacity usage of the
selected device type is displayed in graphical form.

Device Type

Capacity

Displays the allocation of user, copy, and admin space.

Virtual Volume
Allocation

Indicates whether a QoS rule is enabled for the selected virtual
volume set.

QoS Enabled

QoS Settings

The maximum number of IOs/sec the virtual volume set can
operate at.

I/O Limit

The maximum number of KBs/sec the virtual volume set can
operate at.

Bandwidth Limit

The information displayed on the Virtual Volumes, VLUNs, Hosts, and Alerts tabs is identical to
that displayed for virtual volumes. For more information, refer to the following sections:

“Viewing the Virtual Volumes Tab” (page 166)

“VLUNs Tab” (page 177)

“Hosts Tab” (page 179)

“Alerts Tab” (page 180)

Managing QoS Rules

Quality of Service (QoS) is a mechanism that ensures the highest level of performance by establishing
rules for limiting I/O bandwidth and the number of I/O operations per second. QoS is configured
on a virtual volume set basis. Existing virtual volume sets can be used, or a new set can be created
for the purpose of creating a QoS rule to specific volumes in an exported set. For example, suppose
you have four virtual volumes in the virtual volume set VVSet1, exported to the host HostSet1, but
you want to apply a QoS Rule to only two of the volumes in VVSet1. To accomplish this, create a
new virtual volume set, QoS_VVSet in this example, add the two virtual volumes to which you want
to apply the QoS rule, and do not export the new set.

The HP 3PAR Management Console allows you to perform the following QoS actions for virtual
volume sets:

Configure QoS settings

Clear QoS settings

Enable QoS

Disable QoS

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