HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 7)

Managing pools and THP V-VOLs...........................................................................................143
Viewing pool information..................................................................................................143
Viewing formatted pool capacity........................................................................................143
Viewing the progress of rebalancing the usage level among parity groups ..............................144
Increasing pool capacity...................................................................................................144
Changing a pool name....................................................................................................145
Recovering a blocked pool................................................................................................146
Decrease pool capacity....................................................................................................146
About decreasing pool capacity....................................................................................146
Decreasing pool capacity.............................................................................................148
Stopping the decrease of pool capacity.........................................................................148
Deleting a tier in a pool....................................................................................................149
Deleting a pool...............................................................................................................150
Changing external LDEV tier rank......................................................................................150
Increasing THP V-VOL capacity..........................................................................................151
Changing the name of a THP V-VOL...................................................................................151
About releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...............................................................................152
Releasing pages in a THP V-VOL...................................................................................153
Stopping the release of pages in a THP V-VOL................................................................153
Enabling/disabling tier relocation of a THP V-VOL...............................................................154
Deleting a THP V-VOL.......................................................................................................154
Starting pool monitoring manually..........................................................................................155
Stopping pool monitoring manually.........................................................................................155
Starting tier relocation manually.............................................................................................155
Stopping tier relocation manually............................................................................................156
6 Configuring access attributes...................................................................157
About access attributes..........................................................................................................157
Access attribute requirements.................................................................................................157
Access attributes and permitted operations...............................................................................158
Access attribute restrictions.....................................................................................................158
Access attributes work flow....................................................................................................158
Assigning an access attribute to a volume................................................................................159
Changing an access attribute to read-only or protect.................................................................159
Changing an access attribute to read/write.............................................................................161
Enabling or disabling the expiration lock.................................................................................161
Disabling an S-VOL...............................................................................................................162
Reserving volumes................................................................................................................162
7 Managing logical volumes......................................................................164
LUN Manager overview........................................................................................................164
LUN Manager operations.................................................................................................164
Fibre channel operations...................................................................................................164
LUN Manager license requirements....................................................................................165
LUN Manager rules, restrictions, and guidelines...................................................................165
Managing logical units workflow............................................................................................166
Configuring hosts and fibre channel ports................................................................................166
Configuring fibre channel ports..............................................................................................167
Setting the data transfer speed on a fibre channel port.........................................................167
Setting the fibre channel port address.................................................................................167
Addresses for fibre channel ports.......................................................................................168
Setting the fabric switch....................................................................................................169
Fibre channel topology.....................................................................................................169
Example of FC-AL and point-to-point topology.................................................................169
Configuring hosts..................................................................................................................169
Configure hosts workflow..................................................................................................170
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