HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage - Manual (Page 7)

Creating a management group..............................................................................................108
Name the management group and add storage systems.......................................................108
Add administrative user....................................................................................................109
Set management group time..............................................................................................109
Set DNS server................................................................................................................109
Set up email for notification...............................................................................................109
Create cluster and assign a VIP.........................................................................................109
Create a volume and finish creating management group.......................................................110
Logging in to a management group ...................................................................................110
Management group map view tab.....................................................................................110
Configuration Summary overview...........................................................................................110
Reading the configuration summary....................................................................................111
Optimal configurations................................................................................................111
Configuration warnings................................................................................................111
Configuration errors.....................................................................................................112
Configuration guidance....................................................................................................112
Best Practice summary overview..............................................................................................113
Disk level data protection..................................................................................................114
Disk protection using RAID...........................................................................................114
Large single-system SATA cluster....................................................................................114
Disk RAID Consistency.................................................................................................114
Cluster-level data protection...............................................................................................114
Volume-level data protection..............................................................................................115
Volume access.................................................................................................................115
Systems running managers................................................................................................115
Network bonding............................................................................................................115
Network bond consistency................................................................................................115
Network flow control consistency.......................................................................................115
Network frame size consistency.........................................................................................115
Management group maintenance tasks...................................................................................115
Logging in to a management group....................................................................................115
Choosing which storage system to log in to.....................................................................116
Logging out of a management group..................................................................................116
Adding a storage system to an existing management group...................................................116
Starting and stopping managers........................................................................................116
Starting additional managers........................................................................................116
Stopping managers.....................................................................................................117
Implications of stopping managers............................................................................117
Editing a management group............................................................................................117
Setting or changing the local bandwidth priority.............................................................117
Saving the management group configuration information......................................................118
Shutting down a management group.......................................................................................118
If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts...................................................................118
Restarting the management group......................................................................................119
Restarted management group in maintenance mode........................................................119
Manually changing the management group to normal mode.............................................119
Removing a storage system from a management group..............................................................120
Deleting a management group...............................................................................................120
9 Working with managers and quorum........................................................122
Managers overview..............................................................................................................122
Best practice for managers in a management group.............................................................122
Managers and quorum.....................................................................................................123
Regular managers and specialized managers......................................................................123
Failover Managers......................................................................................................124
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