HP Command View EVA Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................7
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................7
HP P6000 Command View Suite software...................................................................................7
HP P6000 Command View features............................................................................................8
Server-based and array-based management.................................................................................8
HP Management Integration Framework....................................................................................10
User interface.........................................................................................................................11
Storage systems point of view..............................................................................................12
Settings point of view.........................................................................................................13
Accessing HP P6000 Command View.......................................................................................14
Internet Protocol support..........................................................................................................15
2 Managing security and passwords.............................................................16
Server-based HP P6000 Command View security groups.............................................................16
Array-based HP P6000 Command View security groups..............................................................16
Password protection for storage systems.....................................................................................16
Enabling management of a password-protected storage system.....................................................17
Disabling management of a password-protected storage system....................................................17
Setting a password for HP EVA storage systems..........................................................................18
Reestablishing communication with a password-protected storage system.......................................18
Single sign-on from HP Systems Insight Manager........................................................................19
3 Licensing HP P6000 EVA storage systems....................................................20
Licenses to use and license keys................................................................................................20
Activating an instant-on license.................................................................................................22
Retrieving licenses...................................................................................................................23
Entering license keys...............................................................................................................23
Importing licenses...................................................................................................................24
Deleting incorrectly entered license keys....................................................................................24
Displaying temporary license expiration date.............................................................................25
4 Provisioning storage..................................................................................26
Disk groups...........................................................................................................................26
Disk group capacity................................................................................................................28
Redundancy (Vraid) levels........................................................................................................29
Virtual disks...........................................................................................................................30
Hosts....................................................................................................................................32
Presentation...........................................................................................................................33
Online virtual disk migration....................................................................................................33
Mirrorclone migration..............................................................................................................34
Thin provisioning....................................................................................................................34
5 Replicating storage...................................................................................36
HP P6000 Business Copy software...........................................................................................36
Snapclones.......................................................................................................................36
Snapshots.........................................................................................................................37
Mirrorclones .....................................................................................................................38
Containers........................................................................................................................40
Optimizing replication performance..........................................................................................41
Planning for host I/O workloads..........................................................................................41
Optimizing snap creation....................................................................................................41
Using containers (preallocation)...........................................................................................41
Minimizing snapclone workloads.........................................................................................42
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