HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 4)

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 36
About data collection tasks ................................................................................................. 36
3 Setting up and operating a SAN environment ...................................... 39
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 39
About creating volumes ...................................................................................................... 39
Prerequisites for creating volumes ........................................................................................ 39
Creating volumes .............................................................................................................. 39
About deleting unallocated volumes .................................................................................... 40
Deleting unallocated volumes ............................................................................................. 40
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 40
Creating a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 41
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 41
Releasing a LUSE volume .................................................................................................... 41
Virtualizing storage ................................................................................................................... 41
About virtualizing volumes .................................................................................................. 41
Prerequisites for virtualizing volumes .................................................................................... 42
Virtualizing volumes .......................................................................................................... 42
Virtualizing storage capacity ...................................................................................................... 43
About virtualizing storage capacity ...................................................................................... 43
THP/Smart pools management functions .............................................................................. 43
Prerequisites for creating THP/Smart pools ........................................................................... 45
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 45
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 45
Prerequisites for expanding THP/Smart pools ........................................................................ 46
Expanding THP/Smart pools .............................................................................................. 46
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ............................................................................................... 46
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ..................................................................................... 47
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ........................................................................................... 47
Reclaiming zero pages ....................................................................................................... 47
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools ................................................... 47
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ............................................... 48
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 48
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ............................................................................... 48
Editing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ............................................................................. 49
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 49
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................ 50
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................ 51
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 51
Implementing periodic operations on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ........................ 53
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ........................................................... 53
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 54
About allocating volumes ................................................................................................... 54
Volume allocation methods ................................................................................................. 54
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ...................................................................................... 55
Allocating volumes from general tasks .................................................................................. 56
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ..................................................................................... 56
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ..................................................................................... 56
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts .................................................................................... 57
Allocating volumes by using a keyword search ...................................................................... 57
Allocating volumes by using a criteria search ........................................................................ 58
Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings .............................................................. 58
Allocate Volumes dialog box .............................................................................................. 59
About LUN path management ............................................................................................. 63
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