HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 6)

Smart Tiers Z tasks and parameters....................................................................................100
Task and parameter settings.........................................................................................101
Display items: Setting parameters..................................................................................102
Display items: Capacity usage for each tier....................................................................103
Display items: Performance monitor statistics...................................................................103
Display items: Operation status of performance monitor/relocation....................................103
Managing Smart Tiers Z...................................................................................................103
Changing pool for Thin Provisioning Z to pool for Smart Tiers Z........................................103
Changing monitoring and tier relocation settings.............................................................105
Changing monitoring mode setting................................................................................105
Changing buffer space for new page assignment setting..................................................106
Changing buffer space for tier relocation setting.............................................................106
Changing a pool for Smart Tiers Z to a pool for Thin Provisioning Z............................................107
Working with pools..............................................................................................................107
About pools....................................................................................................................107
About pool-VOLs..............................................................................................................108
Pool status.......................................................................................................................108
Creating a pool...............................................................................................................108
Working with THP V-VOLs......................................................................................................113
About THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................................113
Relationship between a pool and THP V-VOLs......................................................................113
Creating V-VOLs..............................................................................................................113
Editing a THP V-VOL's SSID...............................................................................................116
Changing THP V-VOL settings............................................................................................117
Removing the THP V-VOL to be registered............................................................................117
Thresholds...........................................................................................................................117
Pool utilization thresholds..................................................................................................117
Pool subscription limit.......................................................................................................118
Changing pool thresholds.................................................................................................119
Changing the pool subscription limit...................................................................................119
Working with SIMs...............................................................................................................120
About SIMs.....................................................................................................................120
SIM reference codes.........................................................................................................120
Automatic completion of a SIM .........................................................................................120
Manually completing a SIM..............................................................................................121
Managing pools and THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................121
Viewing pool information..................................................................................................121
Viewing formatted pool capacity........................................................................................122
Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among pool-VOLs ..................................123
Increasing pool capacity...................................................................................................123
Changing a pool name....................................................................................................124
Recovering a blocked pool................................................................................................124
Decrease pool capacity....................................................................................................125
About decreasing pool capacity....................................................................................125
Decreasing pool capacity.............................................................................................127
Stopping the decrease of pool capacity.........................................................................127
Deleting a tier in a pool....................................................................................................127
Deleting a pool...............................................................................................................128
Changing external LDEV tier rank......................................................................................129
Increasing THP V-VOL capacity..........................................................................................129
Changing the name of a THP V-VOL...................................................................................130
About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...............................................................................130
Releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...................................................................................131
Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL................................................................132
Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL...............................................................133
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