HP XP Array Manager Software - Manual (Page 4)

3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment ...................................... 25
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 25
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 25
Prerequisites for creating volumes ......................................................................................... 25
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 25
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 26
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 26
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 26
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 27
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 27
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 27
Virtualizing storage ................................................................................................................... 27
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 28
Prerequisites for virtualizing volumes ..................................................................................... 28
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 28
Virtualizing storage capacity ...................................................................................................... 29
About virtualizing storage capacity by creating THP pools ....................................................... 29
THP pool management functions .......................................................................................... 29
Prerequisites for creating THP pools ...................................................................................... 30
Creating a THP pool ........................................................................................................... 30
Verifying THP pools ............................................................................................................ 30
Prerequisites for expanding THP pools .................................................................................. 31
Expanding THP pools ......................................................................................................... 31
Shrinking a THP pool .......................................................................................................... 31
Modifying THP pool settings ................................................................................................ 32
Expanding THP volumes ...................................................................................................... 32
Reclaiming zero page ......................................................................................................... 32
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart Tiers Software pools ............................... 33
Manually starting or stopping the relocation of Smart Tiers pools .............................................. 33
Editing a tiering policy ........................................................................................................ 33
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 34
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 34
Allocate Volumes dialog box .............................................................................................. 34
Prerequisites for allocating volumes to specified hosts ............................................................. 35
Allocating volumes to a specified host ................................................................................... 35
Allocating specified volumes to a host ................................................................................... 35
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts ..................................................................................... 36
Allocating volumes to a searched resource (Keyword Search) ................................................... 37
Allocating volumes to a host by searching (Search) ................................................................. 37
Allocating volumes by using the existing settings .................................................................... 38
About path management ..................................................................................................... 38
Editing paths ..................................................................................................................... 38
About unallocating volumes ................................................................................................. 39
Prerequisites for unallocating volumes from hosts .................................................................... 39
Unallocating volumes from hosts ........................................................................................... 39
Replicating volumes .................................................................................................................. 40
About replicating volumes (pair management) ........................................................................ 40
Copy pair management operations ...................................................................................... 40
Adding command devices ................................................................................................... 41
Editing command devices .................................................................................................... 41
Defining copy pairs ............................................................................................................ 41
Changing the status of a copy pair ....................................................................................... 42
Data mobility ..................................................................................................................... 43
About data mobility ..................................................................................................... 43
Reading the reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab ................................... 44
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