HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 4)

Thin Provisioning................................................................................................................34
DKA Encryption.................................................................................................................35
External Storage Access Manager........................................................................................35
LUN Expansion..................................................................................................................35
LUN Manager...................................................................................................................36
Performance Monitor..........................................................................................................37
Business Copy...................................................................................................................37
Fast Snap.........................................................................................................................37
Continuous Access Synchronous...........................................................................................38
Continuous Access Journal..................................................................................................39
External Storage................................................................................................................40
Open Volume Management................................................................................................41
Cache Partition..................................................................................................................41
Auto LUN..........................................................................................................................41
Volume Shredder...............................................................................................................42
Configuration File Loader....................................................................................................42
CLI Spreadsheet for LUN Expansion.....................................................................................42
Performance Control...........................................................................................................43
3 Configuring custom-sized provisioning.........................................................44
Virtual LVI/Virtual LUN functions...............................................................................................44
VLL requirements.....................................................................................................................44
VLL specifications....................................................................................................................44
Virtual LUN specifications for open systems...........................................................................44
CV capacity by emulation type for open systems....................................................................45
SSID requirements ..................................................................................................................45
VLL size calculations................................................................................................................45
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB).......................................................46
Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)...................................................46
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)..................................47
Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)..............................47
Calculating the size of a CV using Enhanced mode on SATA drives..........................................48
Management area capacity of an open-systems volume.....................................................49
Boundary values for RAID levels (Enhanced mode on SATA drives)......................................50
Boundary values for RAID levels (other than Enhanced mode on SATA drives).......................50
Capacity of a slot..........................................................................................................50
Calculated management area capacities (SATA-E drive).....................................................50
Configuring volumes in a parity group .................................................................................51
Create LDEV function..............................................................................................................51
Creating an LDEV..............................................................................................................51
Finding an LDEV ID............................................................................................................54
Finding an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................54
Editing an LDEV SSID ........................................................................................................54
Changing LDEV settings......................................................................................................55
Removing an LDEV to be registered......................................................................................55
Blocking an LDEV...................................................................................................................55
Restoring a blocked LDEV........................................................................................................56
Editing an LDEV name.............................................................................................................56
Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)...............................................................................57
Formatting LDEVs....................................................................................................................57
About formatting LDEVs......................................................................................................58
Storage system operation when LDEVs are formatted..............................................................58
Quick Format function.........................................................................................................58
Quick Format specifications............................................................................................59
Formatting a specific LDEV..................................................................................................60
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