Document Outline

• XP7 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Introduction to provisioning
  • About provisioning
  • Basic provisioning
  • Fixed-sized provisioning
  • Disadvantages
  • When to use fixed-sized provisioning
  • Custom-sized provisioning
  • When to use custom-sized provisioning
  • Basic provisioning workflow
  • Thin Provisioning Overview
  • Thin Provisioning
  • Thin Provisioning concepts
  • When to use Thin Provisioning
  • Thin Provisioning advantages
  • Thin Provisioning advantage example
  • Thin Provisioning work flow
  • Smart Tiers
  • Tiers concept
  • When to use Smart Tiers
  • Data retention strategies
  • Resource groups strategies
  • Complimentary strategies
  • Key terms
  • Before you begin
  • About cache management devices
    • Calculating the number of cache management devices required by a THP V-VOL
      • Maximum capacity of cache management device
    • Calculating the number of cache management devices required by a volume that is not a THP V-VOL
    • Viewing the number of cache management devices
• 2 Managing Virtual Storage Machine Resources
  • About virtual storage machines and virtualized resources
  • Provisioning operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
  • Maintenance operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
  • Pair operations with virtual storage machine pairs
  • Program product operations for resources in a virtual storage machine
• 3 Configuring resource groups
  • System configuration using resource groups
  • Resource groups examples
    • Example of resource groups sharing a port
    • Example of resource groups not sharing ports
  • Meta_resource
  • Resource lock
  • User groups
  • Resource group assignments
  • Resource group license requirements
  • Resource group rules, restrictions, and guidelines
  • Creating a resource group
  • Adding resources to a resource group
  • Removing resources from a resource group
  • Managing Resource Groups
    • Changing the name of a resource group
    • Deleting a resource group
  • Using Resource Partition and other HP XP7 Storage products
    • Thin Provisioning
    • DKA Encryption
    • LUN Manager
    • Performance Monitor
    • Business Copy
    • Fast Snap
    • Continuous Access Synchronous
    • Continuous Access Journal
    • External Storage
    • Open Volume Management
    • Cache Partition
    • Auto LUN
    • Volume Shredder
    • Performance Control
• 4 Configuring custom-sized provisioning
  • Virtual LUN functions
  • Virtual LUN requirements
  • Virtual LUN specifications
    • Virtual LUN specifications for open systems
    • CV capacity by emulation type for open systems
  • SSID requirements
  • Virtual LUN size calculations
    • Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
    • Calculating OPEN-V volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
    • Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is MB)
    • Calculating fixed-size open-systems volume size (CV capacity unit is blocks)
    • Management area capacity of an open-systems volume
    • Boundary values for RAID levels
    • Capacity of a slot
    • Configuring volumes in a parity group
  • Create LDEV function
    • Creating an LDEV
    • Finding an LDEV ID
    • Finding an LDEV SSID
    • Editing an LDEV SSID
    • Changing LDEV settings
    • Removing an LDEV to be registered
  • Blocking LDEVs
  • Blocking LDEVs in a parity group
  • Restoring blocked LDEVs
  • Restoring blocked LDEVs in a parity group
  • Editing an LDEV name
  • Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)
  • Formatting LDEVs
    • About formatting LDEVs
    • Storage system operation when LDEVs are formatted
    • Quick Format function
      • Quick Format specifications
    • Formatting a specific LDEV
    • Formatting all LDEVs in a parity group
  • Assigning an MP blade
    • Assigning an MP blade to a resource
    • Changing the MP blade assigned to an LDEV
• 5 Configuring thin provisioning
  • Thin Provisioning overview
  • Smart Tiers overview
  • Thin provisioning requirements
    • License requirements
    • Pool requirements
    • Pool-VOL requirements
    • THP V-VOL requirements
    • Requirements for increasing THP V-VOL capacity
    • Operating system and file system capacity
  • Using Thin Provisioning or Smart Tiers with other HP XP7 Storage products
    • Interoperability of THP V-VOLs and pool-VOLs
    • Business Copy pair status for reclaiming zero pages
    • Continuous Access Synchronous
    • Continuous Access Journal
    • Business Copy
    • Auto LUN
    • Fast Snap
    • Cache Partition CLPR setting
    • Resource Partition
  • Thin Provisioning workflow
  • Smart Tiers
    • About tiered storage
    • Tier monitoring and data relocation
    • Smart Pool
    • Tier monitoring and relocation cycles
    • Tier relocation flow
    • Tier relocation rules, restrictions, and guidelines
    • Buffer area of a tier
      • Setting external volumes for each tier
    • Smart Tiers cache specifications and requirements
    • Execution modes for tier relocation
      • Execution modes when using Remote Web Console
      • Execution modes when using RAID Manager
    • Relocation speed
    • Monitoring modes
      • Cautions when using monitoring modes
    • Notes on performing monitoring
    • Downloading the tier relocation log file
      • Tier relocation log file contents
    • Tiering policy
      • Tiering policy expansion
      • Tiering policy examples
      • Setting tiering policy on a THP V-VOL
      • Tiering policy levels
      • Viewing the tiering policy in the performance graph
      • Reserving tier capacity when setting a tiering policy
      • Example of reserving tier capacity
      • Notes on tiering policy settings
      • New page assignment tier
      • Relocation priority
      • Assignment tier when pool-VOLs are deleted
      • Formatted pool capacity
      • Rebalancing the usage level among parity groups
      • Execution mode settings and tiering policy
      • Changing the tiering policy level on a THP V-VOL
    • Changing new page assignment tier of a V-VOL
    • Opening the Edit Tiering Policies window
    • Changing a tiering policy
      • To change the tiering policy
    • Changing relocation priority setting of a V-VOL
    • Smart Tiers workflow
    • Smart Tiers tasks and parameters
      • Task and parameter settings
      • Display items: Setting parameters
      • Display items: Capacity usage for each tier
      • Display items: Performance monitor statistics
      • Display items: Operation status of performance monitor/relocation
    • Managing Smart Tiers
      • Changing pool for Thin Provisioning to pool for Smart Tiers
      • Changing monitoring and tier relocation settings
      • Changing monitoring mode setting
      • Changing relocation speed
      • Changing buffer space for tier relocation setting
    • Viewing pool tier information
    • Viewing THP V-VOL tier information
  • Changing a pool for Smart Tiers to a pool for Thin Provisioning
  • Working with pools
    • About pools
    • About pool-VOLs
      • Pool status
      • Creating a pool
  • Working with THP V-VOLs
    • About THP V-VOLs
    • Relationship between a pool and THP V-VOLs
    • Creating V-VOLs
    • Editing a THP V-VOL's SSID
    • Changing THP V-VOL settings
    • Removing the THP V-VOL to be registered
    • Formatting LDEVs in a Windows environment
  • Monitoring capacity and performance
    • Monitoring pool capacity
    • Monitoring pool usage levels
    • Monitoring performance
      • Managing I/O usage rates example
    • Tuning with Smart Tiers
  • Thresholds
    • Pool utilization thresholds
    • Pool subscription limit
    • Changing pool thresholds
    • Changing the pool subscription limit
  • Working with SIMs
    • About SIMs
    • SIM reference codes
    • Automatic completion of a SIM
  • Manually completing a SIM
  • Managing pools and THP V-VOLs
    • Viewing pool information
    • Viewing formatted pool capacity
    • Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among parity groups
    • Increasing pool capacity
    • Changing a pool name
    • Recovering a blocked pool
    • Decrease pool capacity
      • About decreasing pool capacity
      • Decreasing pool capacity
      • Stopping the decrease of pool capacity
    • Deleting a tier in a pool
    • Deleting a pool
    • Changing external LDEV tier rank
    • Increasing THP V-VOL capacity
    • Changing the name of a THP V-VOL
    • About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL
      • Releasing pages in a THP V-VOL
      • Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL
    • Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL
    • Deleting a THP V-VOL
  • Starting pool monitoring manually
  • Stopping pool monitoring manually
  • Starting tier relocation manually
  • Stopping tier relocation manually
• 6 Configuring access attributes
  • About access attributes
  • Access attribute requirements
  • Access attributes and permitted operations
  • Access attribute restrictions
  • Access attributes work flow
  • Assigning an access attribute to a volume
  • Changing an access attribute to read-only or protect
  • Changing an access attribute to read/write
  • Enabling or disabling the expiration lock
  • Disabling an S-VOL
  • Reserving volumes
• 7 Managing logical volumes
  • LUN Manager overview
    • LUN Manager operations
    • Fibre channel operations
    • LUN Manager license requirements
    • LUN Manager rules, restrictions, and guidelines
  • Managing logical units workflow
  • Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports
  • Configuring fibre channel ports
    • Setting the data transfer speed on a fibre channel port
    • Setting the fibre channel port address
    • Addresses for fibre channel ports
    • Setting the fabric switch
    • Fibre channel topology
      • Example of FC-AL and point-to-point topology
  • Configuring hosts
    • Configure hosts workflow
    • Host modes for host groups
    • Host mode options
      • Find WWN of the host bus adapter
      • Finding a WWN on Windows
      • Finding a WWN on Oracle® Solaris
      • Finding a WWN on AIX, IRIX, or Sequent
      • Finding WWN for HP-UX
    • Creating a host group and registering hosts in the host group (in a Fibre Channel environment)
  • Configuring LU paths
    • Configure LU paths workflow
    • Defining LU paths
    • Setting a UUID
    • Correspondence table for defining devices
    • Defining alternate LU paths
    • Managing LU paths
      • Deleting LU paths
      • Clearing a UUID setting
      • Viewing LU path settings
  • Releasing LUN reservation by host
  • LUN security on ports
    • Examples of enabling and disabling LUN security on ports
    • Enabling LUN security on a port
    • Disabling LUN security on a port
  • Setting fibre channel authentication
    • User authentication
      • Settings for authentication of hosts
      • Settings for authentication of ports (required if performing mutual authentication)
    • Host and host group authentication
      • Example of authenticating hosts in a fibre channel environment
      • Port settings and connection results
    • fabric switch authentication
    • fabric switch settings and connection results
    • Mutual authentication of ports
    • Fibre channel authentication
      • Enabling or disabling host authentication on a host group
      • Registering host user information
      • Changing host user information registered on a host group
      • Deleting host user information
      • Registering user information for a host group (for mutual authentication)
      • Clearing user information from a host group
    • Fibre channel port authentication
      • Setting fibre channel port authentication
    • Registering user information on a fibre channel port
    • Registering user information on a fabric switch
    • Clearing fabric switch user information
    • Setting the fabric switch authentication mode
    • Enabling or disabling fabric switch authentication
  • Managing hosts
    • Changing WWN or nickname of a host bus adapter
    • Changing the name or host mode of a host group
    • Initializing host group 0
    • Deleting a host bus adapter from a host group
    • Deleting old WWNs from the WWN table
    • Deleting a host group
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Virtual LUN
  • Troubleshooting Thin Provisioning
  • Troubleshooting Data Retention
    • Data Retention troubleshooting instructions
  • Troubleshooting provisioning while using RAID Manager
    • Errors when operating RAID Manager (Thin Provisioning, SSB1: 0x2e31/0xb96d)
    • Errors when operating RAID Manager (Data Retention, SSB1:2E31/B9BF/B9BD)
  • Calling the HP Technical Support
• 9 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Conventions for storage capacity values
  • Typographic conventions
• A RAID Manager command reference
  • Remote Web Console tasks and RAID Manager command list
• B Resource Partition GUI reference
  • Resource Group window
  • Selected resource group window
  • Create Resource Groups wizard
    • Create Resource Groups window
    • Select Parity Groups window
    • Select LDEVs window
    • Select Ports window
    • Select Host Groups window
    • Create Resource Groups Confirm window
  • Edit Resource Group wizard
    • Edit Resource Group window
    • Edit Resource Group Confirm window
  • Add Resources wizard
    • Add Resources window
    • Add Resources Confirm window
  • Remove Resources window
  • Delete Resource Groups window
  • Resource Group Properties window
• C LDEV GUI reference
  • Parity Groups window
  • Parity Groups tab: Internal or external volume
  • LDEVs tab: Internal or external volumes
  • Logical Devices window
  • Create LDEVs wizard
    • Create LDEVs window
    • Create LDEVs Confirm window
  • Edit LDEVs wizard
    • Edit LDEVs window
    • Edit LDEVs Confirm window
  • Change LDEV Settings window
  • View SSIDs window
  • Select Free Spaces window
  • Select Pool window
  • View LDEV IDs window
    • Emulation groups and types
  • View Physical Location window
  • Edit SSIDs window
  • Change SSIDs window
  • Format LDEVs wizard
    • Format LDEVs window
    • Format LDEVs Confirm window
  • Restore LDEVs window
  • Block LDEVs window
  • Delete LDEVs window
  • LDEV Properties window
  • Components window
  • DKC: MP Blades tab
  • Edit MP Blades wizard
    • Edit MP Blades window
    • Edit MP Blades Confirm window
  • Assign MP Blade wizard
    • Assign MP Blade window
    • Assign MP Blade Confirm window
  • View Management Resource Usage window
• D Thin Provisioning and Smart Tiers GUI reference
  • Pools window
  • Pools: Volume tabs
  • Create Pools wizard
    • Create Pools window
    • Create Pools Confirm window
  • Expand Pool wizard
    • Expand Pool window
    • Expand Pool Confirm window
  • Edit Pools wizard
    • Edit Pools window
    • Edit Pools Confirm window
  • Delete Pools wizard
    • Delete Pools window
    • Delete Pools Confirm window
  • Expand V-VOLs wizard
    • Expand V-VOLs window
    • Expand V-VOLs Confirm window
  • Restore Pools window
  • Shrink Pool window
  • Stop Shrinking Pools window
  • Complete SIMs window
  • Select Pool VOLs window
  • Reclaim Zero Pages window
  • Stop Reclaiming Zero Pages window
  • Pool Property window
  • View Tier Properties window
  • Monitor Pools window
  • Stop Monitoring Pools window
  • Start Tier Relocation window
  • Stop Tier Relocation window
  • View Pool Management Status window
  • Edit External LDEV Tier Rank wizard
    • Edit External LDEV Tier Rank window
    • Edit External LDEV Tier Rank Confirm window
  • Edit Tiering Policies wizard
    • Edit Tiering Policies window
    • Edit Tiering Policies Confirm window
  • Change Tiering Policy Window
  • Change Pool Configuration Pattern Window
• E Data Retention GUI reference
  • Data Retention window
  • Error Detail Dialog Box
• F LUN Manager GUI reference
  • Port/Host Groups window
  • Port/Host Groups: Host Groups and Hosts tabs
  • Port/Hosts Groups: Hosts, LUNs, and Host Mode Options tabs
  • Add LUN Paths wizard
    • Select LDEVs window
    • Select Host Groups window
    • Add LUN Paths window
    • Add LUN Paths Confirm window
  • Create Host Groups wizard
    • Create Host Groups window
    • Create Host Groups Confirm window
  • Edit Host Groups wizard
    • Edit Host Groups window
    • Edit Host Groups Confirm window
  • Add to Host Groups wizard (when specific host is selected)
    • Add to Host Groups window
    • Add to Host Groups Confirm window
  • Add Hosts wizard (when specific hosts group is selected)
    • Add Hosts window
    • Add Hosts Confirm window
  • Delete LUN Paths wizard
    • Delete LUN Paths window
    • Delete LUN Paths Confirm window
  • Edit Host wizard
    • Edit Host window
    • Edit Host Confirm window
  • Edit Ports wizard
    • Edit Ports window
    • Edit Ports Confirm window
  • Create Alternative LUN Paths wizard
    • Create Alternative LUN Paths window
    • Create Alternative LUN Paths Confirm window
  • Copy LUN Paths wizard
    • Copy LUN Paths window
    • Copy LUN Paths Confirm window
  • Remove Hosts wizard
    • Remove Hosts window
    • Remove Hosts Confirm window
  • Edit UUIDs wizard
    • Edit UUIDs window
    • Edit UUIDs Confirm window
  • Add New Host window
  • Change LUN IDs window
  • Delete Host Groups window
  • Delete Login WWNs window
  • Delete UUIDs window
  • Host Group Properties window
  • LUN Properties window
  • Authentication window
    • Authentication window (fibre folder selected)
      • Port tree
      • Port information list
      • Fabric Switch information list
    • Authentication window (fibre port selected)
      • Port tree
      • Authentication information (target) list
      • Authentication information (host) list
    • Add New User Information (Host) window
    • Change User Information (Host) window
    • Clear Authentication information window
    • Specify Authentication Information window
  • Edit Command Devices wizard
    • Edit Command Devices window
    • Edit Command Devices Confirm window
  • Host-Reserved LUNs window
  • Release Host-Reserved LUNs wizard
    • Release Host-Reserved LUNs window
  • View Login WWN Statuses window
• Glossary
• Index