HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 58)

Tasks to complete beforehand:
• Register a Tiered Storage Manager license.
• Create a data placement profile.
• Determine the name of the target logical group.
1. From the Mobility tab, select General Task, then select Manage Data Placement Profiles.
2. Click the Overall Profile View button, or Logical Group View button, then click the Schedule Profiles
button.
3. To create a plan, specify the necessary items by following the instructions in the window.
4. If there is no problem with the plan, execute it.
5. View the list of tasks to make sure that the operation for which a schedule is set is registered as
a task.
TIP:
If multiple operation schedules are registered for a single logical group, the task list displays the
operation that will be executed first. For example, if a schedule to apply a profile is set followed
by a schedule to release the profile, then the application task is displayed until the profile is
applied. After the profile is applied, the task to release the profile is displayed.
Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool
Users can configure external LDEV tiering rank.
Perform the following tasks beforehand:
• Connect the external storage system.
• Define hardware tiers that consist of external volumes.
1. From the Resources tab, select Storage Systems. Expand the tree and select the target THP Pools
of the storage system.
2. Select the target Smart pools, and click the THP Pool Vols tab.
3. Select the target Smart pool volume, and click the Edit External LDEV Tier Rank button.
4. Specify the necessary items, and execute the plan.
When you select the target Smart pool from the tree view in the Resources tab, check that the external
LDEV tiering rank for the Smart pool volume has been changed.
Allocating and unallocating volumes
This module reviews volume allocation requirements, methods, and related procedures for allocating,
or provisioning, volumes.
About allocating volumes
Volume allocation makes storage capacity available to host applications or clustered hosts and
applications. Hosts must be registered before volume allocation.
Depending on your registered storage systems, volumes can be allocated using basic volumes, pool
volumes, or volumes from a tier. Basic volumes are volumes from a parity group. Any storage system
can provide basic volumes. Allocating THP/Smart pool volumes involves grouping resources on
storage systems that support this feature. THP/Smart pools must exist prior to volume allocation from
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