HP XP Array Manager Software - Manual (Page 4)

About removing hosts and releasing associated resources ........................................................ 44
Removing hosts and releasing associated resources ................................................................ 44
Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 45
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 46
Restarting a data collection task ........................................................................................... 46
3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment ............................. 49
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 49
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 49
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 49
Create volumes dialog box .................................................................................................. 50
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 52
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 52
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 52
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 53
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 53
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 53
Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 54
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 54
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 55
Virtualize Volumes dialog box .............................................................................................. 55
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 59
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 59
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 60
Create pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 61
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 64
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 64
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 65
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 66
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 66
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 67
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 67
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 67
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 68
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 69
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 70
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 70
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 71
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 71
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 72
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 72
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 73
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 74
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 75
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 76
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 77
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 78
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 78
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 78
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 79
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 80
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 81
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ...................................................................................... 81
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 82
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