HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 7)

Pool utilization thresholds..................................................................................................126
Pool subscription limit.......................................................................................................126
Changing pool thresholds.................................................................................................127
Changing the pool subscription limit...................................................................................128
Working with SIMs...............................................................................................................128
About SIMs.....................................................................................................................128
SIM reference codes.........................................................................................................129
Automatic completion of a SIM .........................................................................................129
Manually completing a SIM..............................................................................................130
Managing pools and THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................130
Viewing pool information..................................................................................................130
Viewing formatted pool capacity........................................................................................131
Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among pool-VOLs ..................................132
Increasing pool capacity...................................................................................................132
Changing a pool name....................................................................................................133
Recovering a blocked pool................................................................................................134
Decrease pool capacity....................................................................................................134
About decreasing pool capacity....................................................................................134
Decreasing pool capacity.............................................................................................136
Stopping the decrease of pool capacity.........................................................................136
Deleting a tier in a pool....................................................................................................136
Deleting a pool...............................................................................................................137
Increasing THP V-VOL capacity..........................................................................................138
Changing the name of a THP V-VOL...................................................................................138
About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...............................................................................139
Releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...................................................................................140
Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL................................................................140
Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL...............................................................141
Deleting a THP V-VOL.......................................................................................................141
6 Configuring access attributes...................................................................143
About access attributes..........................................................................................................143
Access attribute requirements.................................................................................................143
Access attributes and permitted operations...............................................................................144
Access attribute restrictions.....................................................................................................144
Access attributes work flow....................................................................................................144
Assigning an access attribute to a volume................................................................................145
Changing an access attribute to read-only or protect.................................................................145
Changing an access attribute to read/write.............................................................................147
Enabling or disabling the expiration lock.................................................................................147
Disabling an S-VOL...............................................................................................................148
Reserving volumes................................................................................................................148
7 Managing logical volumes......................................................................150
LUN Manager overview........................................................................................................150
LUN Manager operations.................................................................................................150
Fibre channel operations...................................................................................................150
LUN Manager license requirements....................................................................................151
LUN Manager rules, restrictions, and guidelines...................................................................151
Managing logical units workflow............................................................................................152
Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports................................................................................152
Configuring fibre channel ports..............................................................................................153
Setting the data transfer speed on a fibre channel port.........................................................153
Setting the fibre channel port address.................................................................................153
Addresses for fibre channel ports.......................................................................................154
Setting the fabric switch....................................................................................................155
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