HP Command View EVA Software User Manual
Hp p6000 command view software suite user guide
HP P6000 Command View Software Suite
User Guide
Abstract
This document describes how to use HP P6000 Command View (formerly HP Command View EVA) to manage HP Enterprise
Virtual Array storage systems. It also describes how to use HP P6000 Performance Data Collector (formerly HP Command View
EVAPerf) to monitor array performance. This document is intended for HP P6000 Command View software and HP P6000
Performance Data Collector users and administrators.
HP Part Number: T5494-96592
Published: September 2013
Edition: 17
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP P6000 Command View Software Suite User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Managing security and passwords
- Server-based HP P6000 Command View security groups
- Array-based HP P6000 Command View security groups
- Password protection for storage systems
- Enabling management of a password-protected storage system
- Disabling management of a password-protected storage system
- Setting a password for HP EVA storage systems
- Reestablishing communication with a password-protected storage system
- Single sign-on from HP Systems Insight Manager
- 3 Licensing HP P6000 EVA storage systems
- 4 Provisioning storage
- 5 Replicating storage
- HP P6000 Business Copy software
- Optimizing replication performance
- Planning for host I/O workloads
- Optimizing snap creation
- Using containers (preallocation)
- Minimizing snapclone workloads
- Minimizing the number of snapshots
- Setting virtual disk cache to write-through before a snapshot or snapclone
- Suspending a DR group before a making a snapshot of a virtual disk
- Minimizing simultaneous replication operations
- HP P6000 Continuous Access software
- 6 Maintaining and managing HP P6000 EVA storage systems
- Initializing storage systems
- Uninitializing storage systems
- Starting the storage system
- Shutting down the storage system
- Resynchronizing controllers
- Hardware
- Verifying hardware status
- Storage system identity information
- Remote service test
- Updating HP controller software
- Using multiple management servers to manage storage systems
- Configuring iSCSI devices
- 7 Monitoring storage system events
- 8 Configuring HP P6000 Command View (advanced tasks)
- 9 Troubleshooting HP P6000 Command View
- Optimizing performance
- Restarting the HP P6000 Command View service
- Using the right-click menu
- No security component could be found error
- Changing system time causes your session to end
- Navigation pane lists duplicate storage systems
- Failed communication path between management server and array
- Error messages in the user interface
- Failed communication link to iSCSI devices
- Failed connection warning for empty controller host ports
- Failed entities reported on the disk enclosure
- Troubleshooting access to array-based HP P6000 Command View
- Virtual disk sizes displayed incorrectly
- IP_Filter page incorrectly displays IPv6 address
- Unexpected behavior when using older Windows HBA driver
- Storage system connection down error message
- Version numbers differ
- DR group, host port data replication settings page help not displayed
- WEBES 5.5 receiving events inconsistently
- Client applications not notified when disks are grouped using Add disks
- 10 Monitoring array performance using HP P6000 Performance Data Collector
- Components
- HP P6000 Performance Data Collector server side logging of performance and state data
- Configuration file for performance and state data logging
- Configuring HP P6000 Performance Data Collector
- Events and logs
- Logging configuration file
- Configuration recommendations
- Connecting to HP P6000 Performance Data Collector remotely
- Using friendly names
- Using the command line interface
- Using the graphical user interface
- 11 Support and other resources
- 12 Documentation feedback
- A HP array event code formats and descriptions
- Glossary
- Index