HP P6000 - Manual (Page 26)

4 Provisioning storage
Provisioning is the industry-standard term for providing networked storage to application servers.
With HP P6000/EVA storage systems, provisioning includes the following general steps:
1.
Creating one or more disk groups on a storage system.
2. Creating virtual disks within disk groups and assigning attributes, such as size and redundancy
level.
3. Adding hosts as consumers of the storage on a storage system.
4. Allowing specific hosts access to specific virtual disks on a storage system. This is called
presentation.
See the online help for detailed procedures on each of these steps.
Disk groups
A disk group is a named pool of disk space on a storage system in which individual virtual disks
can be created.
Working with disk groups
The disk group folder for an HP P6000/EVA storage system includes the default disk group, other
disk groups that have been created, plus a folder of ungrouped physical disks that are not members
of any disk group.
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In the various disk group pages you can view component information, operational status, and
perform actions. For example, from the General tab, you can view general information, including
attributes, condition, and capacity. You can also perform actions such as adding physical disks
to the disk group and locating disks.
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