HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions - Manual (Page 4)

Managing administrative groups..............................................................................................78
Using Active Directory for external authentication........................................................................80
7 Monitoring the SAN.................................................................................83
Monitoring SAN status............................................................................................................83
Alarms and events overview.....................................................................................................85
Working with alarms...............................................................................................................87
Configuring events..................................................................................................................88
Working with events...............................................................................................................89
Configuring email notification..................................................................................................91
Configuring SNMP.................................................................................................................92
Running diagnostic reports.......................................................................................................97
Generating a hardware information report.................................................................................98
Using log files......................................................................................................................100
Exporting the management group support bundle.....................................................................102
Exporting the storage system support bundle............................................................................102
Exporting the System Summary...............................................................................................102
8 Working with management groups...........................................................104
Functions of management groups............................................................................................104
Planning management groups................................................................................................104
Creating a management group..............................................................................................105
Configuration Summary overview...........................................................................................107
Best Practice summary overview..............................................................................................109
Management group maintenance tasks...................................................................................111
Shutting down a management group.......................................................................................114
Removing a storage system from a management group..............................................................116
Deleting a management group...............................................................................................116
9 Working with managers and quorum........................................................118
Managers overview..............................................................................................................118
Using the Failover Manager...................................................................................................121
Using a virtual manager........................................................................................................126
10 Working with clusters............................................................................132
Clusters and storage systems..................................................................................................132
Creating a cluster.................................................................................................................133
Monitoring cluster usage.......................................................................................................134
Editing a cluster....................................................................................................................134
Maintaining storage systems in clusters....................................................................................135
Troubleshooting a cluster.......................................................................................................137
Deleting a cluster..................................................................................................................140
11 Provisioning storage..............................................................................141
Understanding how the capacity of the SAN is used.................................................................141
Provisioning volumes.............................................................................................................141
Provisioning snapshots...........................................................................................................147
Ongoing capacity management.............................................................................................148
12 Using volumes......................................................................................155
Planning volumes..................................................................................................................155
Creating a volume ...............................................................................................................156
Viewing the volume map.......................................................................................................158
Editing a volume..................................................................................................................158
Deleting a volume.................................................................................................................161
13 Using snapshots....................................................................................162
Types of snapshots................................................................................................................162
Planning snapshots...............................................................................................................163
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