HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software - Manual (Page 589)

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide 551
7. When you are asked if you want to delete the volume, click OK.
8. To delete several storage volumes at once, select the storage volumes you want to delete and
then click Delete Selected Volumes.
NOTE: To select all volumes, select the check box next to the Volume heading
Changing the Cache Block Size for a Storage System (LSI and Sun 6130)
LSI and Sun 6130 storage systems let you change the cache block size.
To change the cache block size of a storage system:
1. Do one of the following:
• Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Provisioning Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager,
then click the link for the storage system.
• Click Tools > Storage Essentials > System Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager, then
double-click the storage system displayed in the right pane.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the Navigation page.
3. Click Change.
4. Select the cache block size from the menu. Set a higher cache size for applications that require
a lot of input and output, such as multimedia.
5. Click OK.
Modifying the Cache Settings (LSI and Sun 6130 Only)
To modify the cache settings:
1. Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Provisioning Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager.
2. In the right pane, click the Storage Systems tab.
3. Click the Provision button for the storage system in which you want to access information about
volumes.
4. Click Step 2 Volume.
5. Click the Edit ( ) button for the volume you want to modify.
6. Enter the cache read ahead multiplier (0 to 65535 bytes) in the Cache read-ahead multiplier
box. To disable this option, enter 0.
7. Optional: Select Read Caching.
When this option is enabled, the host's operations are stored in controller cache memory.
8. Optional: Select Write Caching.
When this option is selected, data is written to the cache memory of a controller
9. Optional: Select Write Caching with Mirroring.
Use this option to preserve data if a controller or the cache fails. When this option is enabled,
the data is written to two controllers of the same cache size, providing redundancy, so that if one
controller fails, the other controller performs the uncompleted write operations.
10. To change the current owner, select a new owner from the Current Owner menu.