3 managing storage resources in a san environment – HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Licenses User Manual
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About removing hosts and releasing associated resources ........................................................ 44
Removing hosts and releasing associated resources ................................................................ 45
Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 46
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 46
Restarting a data collection task ........................................................................................... 47
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 shredding volume data .............................................................................................. 52
Shredding volume data ....................................................................................................... 52
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 53
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 53
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 54
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 54
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 55
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 55
Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 55
About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes ......................................................................... 56
Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system ................................................................. 57
Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system ..................................... 58
Unvirtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................ 59
Virtualize Volumes dialog box .............................................................................................. 60
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 64
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 65
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 66
Create Pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 68
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 72
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 73
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 75
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 75
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 75
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 76
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 77
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 77
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 77
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 79
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 79
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 80
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 80
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 81
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 82
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 82
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 83
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 84
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 85
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 86
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 87
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 87
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 88
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 88
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 89
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