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Pools tab – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Pools tab

Description

Item

Displays the pool name and pool ID. Clicking the pool name takes you to the
pool information window in the lower hierarchy.

Pool Name (ID)

Displays information about the pool status.

Status

Normal: Pool is in a normal status.

Warning: Pool-VOL in the pool is blocked, or the pool is being shrunk.

Exceeded Threshold: Used capacity of the pool exceeds the pool threshold.

Shrinking: Pool-VOL is being reduced.

Blocked: Pool is full, or an error occurred in the pool, indicating that the pool

is blocked. If the pool is in both Warning and Blocked status, only Blocked is
displayed.

Displays the number of pool-VOLs associated with the pool.

Number of Pool VOLs

Displays the number of V-VOLs associated with the pool.

Number of V-VOLs

For a Fast Snap or Snapshot pool, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Displays the number of primary volumes of the Fast Snap or Snapshot pairs. If
the pool is other than the Fast Snap or Snapshot pool, a hyphen (-) is displayed.

Number of Primary VOLs

Displays the RAID level. If multiple RAID levels exist in a pool, this field indicates
as Mixed.

RAID level

Displays information about the pool capacity.

Capacity

Total: Total capacity of pool.

Using Options, you can select unit of capacity.

- One block means 512 bytes and one page means 42 megabytes in a pool
capacity of Thin Provisioning, Smart Tiers, or Fast Snap,

- One slot means 58 kilobytes and one page means 38 megabytes in a pool
capacity of Thin Provisioning Z or Smart Tiers Z.

- One block means 512 bytes and one page means 256 kilobytes in a pool
capacity of Snapshot.

Used: Used pool capacity.

Used (%): Pool usage rates to pool capacity.

Used (%) displays the value which is truncated after the decimal point of the
actual value.

For the pool of Thin Provisioning, Smart Tiers, Fast Snap, and Snapshot, a hyphen
(-) is displayed if the unit of capacity is changed into Cylinder.

Displays information about the threshold of a pool.

User-Defined Threshold (%)

Warning: Warning threshold.

Depletion: Depletion threshold.

For a Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers pool, as for the pool with only one
user-defined threshold setting, the system threshold (fixed at 80%) is enabled. If
the user-defined threshold is 80% or less, the value is displayed in the Warning
column. If the user-defined threshold is 81% or more, the value is displayed in
the Depletion column. In this case, the other column displays a hyphen (-).

For a Fast Snap or Snapshot pool, a hyphen (-) is displayed for Depletion.

Caution: For a pool with only one user-defined threshold setting, the system
threshold (fixed at 80%) is enabled. If the used capacity of the pool exceeds the
user-defined threshold, the SIM code 620XXX is reported. In the current version,

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