HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual
Hp xp p9000 raid manager user guide
HP XP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide
Abstract
This guide provides information on using HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Software on HP XP P9000 disk arrays. Included is
information on: command usage, configuration file examples, and information on High Availability failover and failback, Fibre
Channel addressing, and Standard input (STDIN) file formats.
HP Part Number: T1610-96059
Published: January 2014
Edition: Twelfth
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP XP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- About RAID Manager
- RAID Manager functions
- RAID Manager functions matrix
- Provisioning function
- Asynchronous command processing
- Command execution modes
- Precheck function
- Command execution by the out-of-band method
- User authentication
- LDEV nickname function
- LDEV grouping function
- Resource group function
- Resource locking function
- In-system replication
- Remote replication
- Data protection
- 2 RAID Manager software environment
- Overview of the RAID Manager software environment
- RAID Manager components on the RAID storage system
- RAID Manager instance components on the host server
- RAID Manager software files
- RAID Manager log and trace files
- User-created files
- User environment variable
- 3 RAID Manager functions on the P9500
- Command execution using in-band and out-of-band methods
- Connecting to RAID Manager server already connected by In-Band method using Out-of-Band method
- User authentication
- Command operation authority and user authentication
- Relation between resource groups and command operations
- Resource lock function
- Command execution modes
- Resource location and parameter
- LDEV grouping function
- Pair operations with mainframe volumes
- 4 Starting up RAID Manager
- 5 Provisioning operations with RAID Manager
- About provisioning operations
- Available provisioning operations
- Available provisioning operation (specifying device group)
- Common operations when executing provisioning operations
- Resource group operations
- Internal volume operations
- Virtual volume (Thin Provisioning) operations
- Virtual volume (Thin Provisioning for Mainframe) operations
- Virtual volume (Smart Tiers) operations
- External volume operations
- Cache Partition operations
- Performance Control operations
- State transitions of Performance Control
- Controlling server performance
- Checking WWN of host bus adapters
- Setting the priority on host bus adapter
- Checking the status of the prioritized WWN and the non-prioritized WWN settings
- Setting PFC name for host bus adapter
- Grouping multiple host bus adapters into one group
- Checking the traffic of the prioritized WWN and the non-prioritized WWN
- Stopping performance control of server by using PFC function
- Caution about exclusive access control with Remote Web Console
- Deleting WWN from the PFC targets with PFC name or PFC group name
- Resource group function and restrictions when running Performance Control
- 6 Data replication operations with RAID Manager
- About data replication operations
- Features of paired volumes
- Using RAID Manager with Business Copy and Continuous Access Synchronous
- Business Copy operations
- Continuous Access Synchronous operations
- Continuous Access Synchronous, Business Copy, and Continuous Access Journal operations
- Continuous Access Synchronous/Business Copy volumes
- Continuous Access Synchronous/Business Copy/Continuous Access Journal pair status
- Continuous Access Asynchronous, Continuous Access Synchronous, and Continuous Access Journal volumes
- Continuous Access Synchronous/Continuous Access Asynchronous and Continuous Access Journal fence level settings
- Snapshot operations
- Controlling Auto LUN
- Continuous Access Journal MxN configuration and control
- Remote volume discovery
- 7 Data protection operations with RAID Manager
- Data protection operations
- Protection parameters and operations
- Data Protection facility
- Data Protection Facility specifications
- Examples for configuration and protected volumes
- The operation authority with CMD security enabled
- Target commands for protection
- permission command
- New options for security
- Permitting protected volumes
- Environment variables
- Determining the protection mode command device
- 8 Examples of using RAID Manager commands
- 9 Support and other resources
- 10 Support and other resources
- Glossary
- Index