HP XP Racks User Manual
Hp xp7 provisioning for open systems user guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- XP7 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction to provisioning
- About provisioning
- Basic provisioning
- Fixed-sized provisioning
- Disadvantages
- When to use fixed-sized provisioning
- Custom-sized provisioning
- When to use custom-sized provisioning
- Basic provisioning workflow
- Thin Provisioning Overview
- Thin Provisioning
- Thin Provisioning concepts
- When to use Thin Provisioning
- Thin Provisioning advantages
- Thin Provisioning advantage example
- Thin Provisioning work flow
- Smart Tiers
- Tiers concept
- When to use Smart Tiers
- Data retention strategies
- Resource groups strategies
- Complimentary strategies
- Key terms
- Before you begin
- About cache management devices
- 2 Managing Virtual Storage Machine Resources
- About virtual storage machines and virtualized resources
- Provisioning operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
- Maintenance operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
- Pair operations with virtual storage machine pairs
- Program product operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
- 3 Configuring resource groups
- System configuration using resource groups
- Resource groups examples
- Meta_resource
- Resource lock
- User groups
- Resource group assignments
- Resource group license requirements
- Resource group rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- Creating a resource group
- Adding resources to a resource group
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Managing Resource Groups
- Using Resource Partition and other HP XP7 Storage products
- 4 Configuring custom-sized provisioning
- Virtual LUN functions
- Virtual LUN requirements
- Virtual LUN specifications
- SSID requirements
- Virtual LUN size calculations
- Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
- Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
- Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
- Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
- Management area capacity of an open-systems volume
- Boundary values for RAID levels
- Capacity of a slot
- Configuring volumes in a parity group
- Create LDEV function
- Blocking LDEVs
- Blocking LDEVs in a parity group
- Restoring blocked LDEVs
- Restoring blocked LDEVs in a parity group
- Editing an LDEV name
- Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)
- Formatting LDEVs
- Assigning an MP blade
- 5 Configuring thin provisioning
- Thin Provisioning overview
- Smart Tiers overview
- Thin provisioning requirements
- Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers with other HP XP7 Storage products
- Thin Provisioning workflow
- Smart Tiers
- About tiered storage
- Tier monitoring and data relocation
- Smart Pool
- Tier monitoring and relocation cycles
- Tier relocation flow
- Tier relocation rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- Buffer area of a tier
- Smart Tiers cache specifications and requirements
- Execution modes for tier relocation
- Relocation speed
- Monitoring modes
- Notes on performing monitoring
- Downloading the tier relocation log file
- Tiering policy
- Tiering policy expansion
- Tiering policy examples
- Setting tiering policy on a THP V-VOL
- Tiering policy levels
- Viewing the tiering policy in the performance graph
- Reserving tier capacity when setting a tiering policy
- Example of reserving tier capacity
- Notes on tiering policy settings
- New page assignment tier
- Relocation priority
- Assignment tier when pool-VOLs are deleted
- Formatted pool capacity
- Rebalancing the usage level among parity groups
- Execution mode settings and tiering policy
- Changing the tiering policy level on a THP V-VOL
- Changing new page assignment tier of a V-VOL
- Opening the Edit Tiering Policies window
- Changing a tiering policy
- Changing relocation priority setting of a V-VOL
- Smart Tiers workflow
- Smart Tiers tasks and parameters
- Managing Smart Tiers
- Viewing pool tier information
- Viewing THP V-VOL tier information
- Changing a pool for Smart Tiers to a pool for Thin Provisioning
- Working with pools
- Working with THP V-VOLs
- Monitoring capacity and performance
- Thresholds
- Working with SIMs
- Manually completing a SIM
- Managing pools and THP V-VOLs
- Viewing pool information
- Viewing formatted pool capacity
- Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among parity groups
- Increasing pool capacity
- Changing a pool name
- Recovering a blocked pool
- Decrease pool capacity
- Deleting a tier in a pool
- Deleting a pool
- Changing external LDEV tier rank
- Increasing THP V-VOL capacity
- Changing the name of a THP V-VOL
- About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL
- Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL
- Deleting a THP V-VOL
- Starting pool monitoring manually
- Stopping pool monitoring manually
- Starting tier relocation manually
- Stopping tier relocation manually
- 6 Configuring access attributes
- About access attributes
- Access attribute requirements
- Access attributes and permitted operations
- Access attribute restrictions
- Access attributes work flow
- Assigning an access attribute to a volume
- Changing an access attribute to read-only or protect
- Changing an access attribute to read/write
- Enabling or disabling the expiration lock
- Disabling an S-VOL
- Reserving volumes
- 7 Managing logical volumes
- LUN Manager overview
- Managing logical units workflow
- Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports
- Configuring fibre channel ports
- Configuring hosts
- Configuring LU paths
- Releasing LUN reservation by host
- LUN security on ports
- Setting fibre channel authentication
- User authentication
- Host and host group authentication
- fabric switch authentication
- fabric switch settings and connection results
- Mutual authentication of ports
- Fibre channel authentication
- Fibre channel port authentication
- Registering user information on a fibre channel port
- Registering user information on a fabric switch
- Clearing fabric switch user information
- Setting the fabric switch authentication mode
- Enabling or disabling fabric switch authentication
- Managing hosts
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 9 Support and other resources
- A RAID Manager command reference
- B Resource Partition GUI reference
- C LDEV GUI reference
- Parity Groups window
- Parity Groups tab: Internal or external volume
- LDEVs tab: Internal or external volumes
- Logical Devices window
- Create LDEVs wizard
- Edit LDEVs wizard
- Change LDEV Settings window
- View SSIDs window
- Select Free Spaces window
- Select Pool window
- View LDEV IDs window
- View Physical Location window
- Edit SSIDs window
- Change SSIDs window
- Format LDEVs wizard
- Restore LDEVs window
- Block LDEVs window
- Delete LDEVs window
- LDEV Properties window
- Components window
- DKC: MP Blades tab
- Edit MP Blades wizard
- Assign MP Blade wizard
- View Management Resource Usage window
- D Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers GUI reference
- Pools window
- Pools: Volume tabs
- Create Pools wizard
- Expand Pool wizard
- Edit Pools wizard
- Delete Pools wizard
- Expand V-VOLs wizard
- Restore Pools window
- Shrink Pool window
- Stop Shrinking Pools window
- Complete SIMs window
- Select Pool VOLs window
- Reclaim Zero Pages window
- Stop Reclaiming Zero Pages window
- Pool Property window
- View Tier Properties window
- Monitor Pools window
- Stop Monitoring Pools window
- Start Tier Relocation window
- Stop Tier Relocation window
- View Pool Management Status window
- Edit External LDEV Tier Rank wizard
- Edit Tiering Policies wizard
- Change Tiering Policy Window
- Change Pool Configuration Pattern Window
- E Data Retention GUI reference
- F LUN Manager GUI reference
- Port/Host Groups window
- Port/Host Groups: Host Groups and Hosts tabs
- Port/Hosts Groups: Hosts, LUNs, and Host Mode Options tabs
- Add LUN Paths wizard
- Create Host Groups wizard
- Edit Host Groups wizard
- Add to Host Groups wizard (when specific host is selected)
- Add Hosts wizard (when specific hosts group is selected)
- Delete LUN Paths wizard
- Edit Host wizard
- Edit Ports wizard
- Create Alternative LUN Paths wizard
- Copy LUN Paths wizard
- Remove Hosts wizard
- Edit UUIDs wizard
- Add New Host window
- Change LUN IDs window
- Delete Host Groups window
- Delete Login WWNs window
- Delete UUIDs window
- Host Group Properties window
- LUN Properties window
- Authentication window
- Edit Command Devices wizard
- Host-Reserved LUNs window
- Release Host-Reserved LUNs wizard
- View Login WWN Statuses window
- Glossary
- Index