HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Provisioning Manager

352

Modifying the Cache Settings (Engenio and Sun 6130)

IMPORTANT:

Depending on your license, Provisioning Manager may not be available. See the

“List of Features” to determine if you have access to Provisioning Manager. The “List of Features” is

accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

To modify the cache settings:

2

Create a volume.
A volume is a virtual disk. Volumes are created

in sizes that are desirable for being shown as a

LUN.
On CLARiiON storage systems, a volume is

owned by one of the storage processors.

Creating a volume also creates a LUN for this

volume and each port of the storage processor

that owns this volume. A volume can be

associated with more than one fibre channel

port, creating multiple LUNs corresponding to

the same volume. The defining characteristics of

a LUN are the volume, port, and LUN number.

On CLARiiON storage systems, a LUN mapped

to a port is visible to all the ports on that

controller. Mapping a volume to a port on a

CLARiiON storage system also maps that volume

to all ports that reside on the same storage

processor as the selected port. It also causes the

volume to be unmapped from all the ports of the

other storage processor.
Some storage systems have their volumes fully

configured during install. For these storage

systems, Users can concatenate multiple volumes

together to create a new volume.

Creating a Storage Volume

” on

page 358

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Create a Host Security Group. Host Security

Groups define which initiators (HBA ports) have

access to specified storage volumes. They are

associated with a fibre-channel port and contain

a list of HBA port initiators and the volumes they

can see.

Creating Host Security Groups

” on

page 368 and

Rules for Creating Host

Security Groups

” on page 363

Table 53

Setting Up Storage Partitioning (continued)

Step

Description

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