4 grouping resources – HP XP Racks User Manual
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Editing LUN paths ............................................................................................................. 63
About unallocating volumes ................................................................................................ 63
Prerequisites for unallocating volumes from hosts ................................................................... 64
Unallocating volumes from hosts .......................................................................................... 64
Replicating volumes .................................................................................................................. 64
About replicating volumes (pair management) ....................................................................... 64
Copy pair management operations ..................................................................................... 65
Adding command devices .................................................................................................. 65
Editing command devices ................................................................................................... 65
Defining copy pairs ........................................................................................................... 66
Changing the status of a copy pair ...................................................................................... 66
Data mobility ........................................................................................................................... 67
About data mobility ........................................................................................................... 67
Reading the reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab ........................................ 68
Reading the reports for THP/Smart pools that are displayed in the Mobility tab ......................... 69
Optimizing data placement in a logical group ...................................................................... 70
Optimizing data placement in a THP/Smart pool .................................................................. 70
Data migration ......................................................................................................................... 70
About data migration ........................................................................................................ 70
Notes on migrating data .................................................................................................... 71
Values for ensuring the operation of Tiered Storage Manager and recommended values ............ 72
Conditions of volumes that can be migrated ......................................................................... 72
Conditions of volumes that cannot be migrated ..................................................................... 72
Conditions of volumes that cannot be used as migration sources .............................................. 73
Conditions of volumes that cannot be used as migration targets ............................................... 74
Conditions for migration target volumes when a migration source volume is a LUSE ................... 75
Conditions when a migration target is a THP/Smart pool ....................................................... 75
Migrating data for volume performance ............................................................................... 75
Migrating data to a different storage system ......................................................................... 76
Prerequisites for migrating data from an SMI-S Enabled storage system to another storage system
........................................................................................................................................ 77
Migrating data from an SMI-S Enabled storage system to another storage system ....................... 78
Managing tasks ....................................................................................................................... 80
About tasks ...................................................................................................................... 80
Viewing task status ............................................................................................................ 80
Rescheduling tasks waiting to be executed ............................................................................ 80
Stopping running data migration or data placement profile tasks ............................................. 81
Canceling scheduled tasks ................................................................................................. 81
Moving tasks to the History tab ........................................................................................... 81
4 Grouping resources .......................................................................... 83
Managing logical groups .......................................................................................................... 83
About logical groups ......................................................................................................... 83
Prerequisites for creating a logical group .............................................................................. 83
Creating logical groups ..................................................................................................... 84
Viewing logical group reports ............................................................................................. 84
Editing logical groups ........................................................................................................ 84
Performing operations from a logical group .......................................................................... 84
Managing storage tiers ............................................................................................................. 85
About tier-based storage management ................................................................................. 85
Creating tiers .................................................................................................................... 85
Expanding a tier ............................................................................................................... 85
Labeling volumes ...................................................................................................................... 86
About volume labels .......................................................................................................... 86
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