HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 128)

TIP: Perform the following steps if necessary:
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Click Filter to open the menu, specify the filtering, and then Apply.
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Click Select All Pages to select all pool-VOLs in the table. To cancel the selection,
click Select All Pages again.
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Click Options to specify the volumes or the number of rows to be displayed.
5. Click OK.
The information in the Selected Pool Volumes table is applied to Total Selected Pool
Volumes and Total Selected Capacity.
8. In the Pool Name text box, enter the prefix and initial number of the pool. The pool name may
consist of up to 32 characters.
Prefix: Case-sensitive, alphanumeric characters that begin the pool name.
Initial Number: 1 to 9 digits that follow the prefix.
9. Click Options.
10. In the Initial Pool ID text box, type the number of the initial pool ID, from 0 to 127.
When you specify a pool ID that was previously registered, the smallest available ID is
displayed by default instead of the value you entered. If a pool ID unavailable, no number is
displayed.
11. In the Subscription Limit text box, enter an integer value from 0 to 65534 as the subscription
rate (%) for the pool.
If no number is entered, the subscription rate is set to unlimited.
12. In the Warning Threshold text box, enter an integer value from 1 to 100 as the rate (%) for
the pool. The default value is 70%.
13. In the Depletion Threshold text box, enter an integer value from 1 to 100 as the rate (%) for
the pool. The default value is 80%.
Enter a value that is greater than the value of the Warning Threshold.
14. Configure Smart Tiers with the following steps.
From the Tier Management option, select Auto or Manual.
1. The selection is usually Auto which allows performance monitoring and tier relocation to
be performed automatically.
If you select Manual, you can use the RAID Manager or Remote Web Console to manually
perform performance monitoring and tier relocation.
2. From the Cycle Time option, select the cycle for performance monitoring and tier relocation.
When you select 24 Hours (default value):
Performance monitoring and tier relocation is performed once a day
In the Monitoring Period field, set the time to start and end performance monitoring. The
default value is 00:00 to 23:59.
Set one or more hours between the starting and ending times. If you specify a starting
time that is later than the ending time, the performance monitoring continues until the
ending time on the next day.
You can view the information gathered by performance monitoring with Remote Web
Console or the RAID Manager.
When you select 0.5 Hours, 1 Hour, 2 Hours, 4 Hours, 8 Hours:
Performance monitoring is performed every hour that is selected, starting at 00:00.
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