HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 4)

Reviewing data collection tasks ................................................................................................... 39
About data collection tasks .................................................................................................. 39
3 Managing storage resources in a SAN environment ............................. 41
Creating and deleting volumes ................................................................................................... 41
About creating volumes ....................................................................................................... 41
Creating volumes ............................................................................................................... 41
Create volumes dialog box .................................................................................................. 42
About deleting unallocated volumes ..................................................................................... 43
Deleting unallocated volumes .............................................................................................. 43
About creating a LUSE volume ............................................................................................. 44
Creating a LUSE volume ...................................................................................................... 44
About releasing a LUSE volume ............................................................................................ 44
Releasing a LUSE volume ..................................................................................................... 44
Virtualizing external storage ....................................................................................................... 45
About virtualizing volumes ................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing volumes ........................................................................................................... 45
Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart) .................................................................................... 46
About virtualizing storage capacity ....................................................................................... 46
Creating a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................. 47
Create pool dialog box ....................................................................................................... 48
Verifying THP/Smart pool information ................................................................................... 50
Expanding THP/Smart pools ............................................................................................... 50
Shrinking a THP/Smart pool ................................................................................................ 51
Modifying THP/Smart pool settings ...................................................................................... 51
Deleting THP/Smart pools ................................................................................................... 52
Expanding THP/Smart volumes ............................................................................................ 52
Reclaiming zero pages ........................................................................................................ 52
Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart) ................................................................................................. 52
About virtualizing storage tiers ............................................................................................. 53
Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools .................................................... 54
Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools ................................................ 54
Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools ........................................................ 54
Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes ................................................................................ 55
Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes ............................................................................ 55
Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes ...................................................................... 56
Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................... 56
Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 57
Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes ............................................................. 58
Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes ................................................................. 59
Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes .............................................................. 59
Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes ............................................................ 60
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool ............................................................ 60
Allocating and unallocating volumes ........................................................................................... 61
About allocating volumes .................................................................................................... 61
Volume allocation methods .................................................................................................. 62
Prerequisites for allocating volumes ....................................................................................... 63
Allocating volumes from general tasks ................................................................................... 63
Allocating volumes to selected hosts ...................................................................................... 63
Allocating selected volumes to hosts ...................................................................................... 64
Allocating volumes to clustered hosts ..................................................................................... 64
Allocating volumes by using a keyword search ....................................................................... 65
Allocating volumes by using a criteria search ......................................................................... 65
Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings ............................................................... 66
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