Document Outline

• HP NonStop Storage Management Foundation User's Guide
• Legal Notices
• Contents
• What's New in This Manual
  • Manual Information
  • New and Changed Information
    • Changes to the 523562-008 manual:
    • Changes to the 523562-007 manual:
    • Changes to the 523562-006 manual:
    • Changes to the 523562-004 Manual
• About This Manual
  • Who Should Read This Guide
  • What’s in This Manual
  • Related Manuals
  • Notation Conventions
    • General Syntax Notation
    • Notation for Messages
    • Change Bar Notation
  • HP Encourages Your Comments
• 1 Introduction to Storage Management
  • Storage Administrators
    • System Administrators and Planners
    • System Operators
    • Application Developers
  • Storage Management Solutions
  • SMF Architectural Concepts
    • Location-Independent Naming
    • Storage Pools
    • Virtual Disks and Physical Volumes
  • Overview of SMF Processes
    • Master Process
    • Pool Processes
    • Virtual Disk Processes
  • SMF Catalogs
    • $ZSMS Process Catalog
    • Pool Process Catalogs
    • Virtual Disk Process Catalogs
    • Pending Operations Catalogs
  • Configuration Interfaces for SMF
    • DSC/COUP
    • PUP
    • SCF
  • Other SMF Processes and Components
    • File System
    • RELOCSRV
    • SMFIXUP
    • SMCONVRT
    • SMREVERT
  • Software Support for SMF
• 2 Preparing to Use SMF
  • TMF Usage
    • TMF Audit Records
    • TMF Fallback Considerations
    • Using Multiple TMF Audit Trails With SMF
    • TMF Shutdown and Initialization
  • SMF Installation Considerations
    • Performance Impact
    • Memory Resource Impact
    • Operational Impact of Using SMF
    • Using Physical Names for Logical Files
  • Application Compatibility Issues
    • Placing Existing Volumes in Storage Pools
    • Converting to Virtual Volumes
    • Volume Selection
    • Temporary Files
    • Physical Disk Information Requests
    • Identifying Virtual Disks
    • NonStop SQL Temporary Table Placement
    • SMF and FastSort
    • SQL Catalog Availability
  • BACKUP/RESTORE Usage
  • OSS Usage
  • Safeguard Usage
    • Safeguard Security and Availability
    • Physical Device Access and Control
  • Optical Disk Usage
  • Nomadic Disk Usage
  • SMF Network Coexistence Issues
    • Remote Access for Logically Named Files
    • Remote Direct File Behavior
    • Remote Duplicate Database Facility (RDF) Protection
    • SQL PDR Operations
• 3 Configuring and Managing SMF Processes
  • Configuration and Management Overview
    • Considerations for Pooling
    • Considerations for Virtual Disk Processes
    • Considerations for Data
    • Managing SMF
    • Starting SMF Processes
    • Process Parameters
    • Catalog Files
    • Stopping SMF Processes
    • Stopping the SMF Subsystem
    • Deleting the SMF Configuration
    • Configuration Example
  • Error Management and Reporting
    • VDP Error Handling
    • Pending Operations
    • Indeterminate Outcomes
• 4 Migration Guidelines
  • Migrating to SMF on an Existing System
    • Converting Existing Direct Volumes to Virtual Disks
    • Reverting to Physical Disks When SQL Catalog Files Are Present
  • The SMCONVRT Utility
    • SMCONVRT Utility Syntax
    • SMCONVRT Utility Startup Conditions
    • Handling Files With Reserved Names
    • Troubleshooting Migration Problems
    • File Listing and Prompt for Continue
    • Virtual Disk Process Startup
    • File Mode Backup
  • The SMREVERT Utility
    • SMREVERT Fallback Sequence
    • SMREVERT Utility Syntax
    • Troubleshooting Problems in Reverting
  • Moving Data From Physical Volumes to Virtual Disks
  • Migrating to a New System
    • Using Physical Disk Moves
    • Migrating to a New System by Using Volume Mode Backup
  • Pool Consolidation
• 5 File Relocation Facility
  • User Interfaces
    • FUP Command for File Relocation
    • File Relocation Through an Application Process
  • General File Relocation Considerations
  • Aborting Relocation Operations
  • Special Considerations for SQL Files
    • User Interfaces
    • Protection Views
    • Query Recompilation
    • Relocating SQL Catalog Files
• 6 Pool Management
  • Pool Consolidation
  • Removing Disks From a Pool
    • Example
  • Renaming a Physical Disk in a Pool Containing VDP Catalog
    • Example
• 7 File Protection and Recovery for Virtual Disks
  • Protecting SMF Data
  • Recovering Individual Files
    • Recovering Files Using TMF
    • Recovering Files by Using RESTORE
    • Other File Recovery Methods
  • Recovering an Entire Disk
  • SMF Catalog File Recovery
    • Recovering $ZSMS Catalog Files
    • Recovering VDP Catalog Files
    • Recovering Pool Process Catalog Files
    • Using RESTORE to Recover SMF Catalog Files
• 8 Guardian Procedures
  • Error Ranges and Error Handling
  • Guardian Procedures Unique to SMF
  • Extended Guardian Procedures
  • Discovery Operations
  • Format of Information Returned
    • Pool Configuration Buffer
    • Virtual Disk Configuration Buffer
    • Volume Configuration Buffer
    • Volume Status Buffer
  • Guardian Procedure Syntax
    • SMS_GETPHYSVOLINFOFROMPOOL_
    • SMS_GETPHYSVOLSINPOOLEND_
    • SMS_GETPHYSVOLSINPOOLNEXT_
    • SMS_GETPHYSVOLSINPOOLSTART_
    • SMS_GETPOOLOFVOLUME_
    • SMS_GETPOOLSEND_
    • SMS_GETPOOLSNEXT_
    • SMS_GETPOOLSSTART_
    • SMS_GETSTGPOOLHDR_
    • SMS_GETVIRTDISKSEND_
    • SMS_GETVIRTDISKSNEXT_
    • SMS_GETVIRTDISKSSTART_
    • SMS_GETVIRTUALDISKHDR_
    • SMS_RELOCATEFILE_
• 9 SMFIXUP Utility
  • Starting SMFIXUP
  • Stopping SMFIXUP
  • Catalog Maintenance Commands
    • FILECODE Command
    • FINDFILES Command
    • PURGE Command
    • RESETAUDITTRAILINDEX Command
    • SETAUDITTRAILINDEX Command
    • USECATALOG Command
    • ZOT Command
  • SMF Process Maintenance Commands
    • ABANDONPENDOPS Command
    • CHANGEMODE Command
    • COMPLETEPENDOPS Command
    • DISABLEPMCREATES Command
    • ENABLEPMCREATES Command
    • RESUMEPENDOPS Command
    • SUSPENDPENDOPS Command
  • Miscellaneous Commands
    • ALLOWERRORS Command
    • EXIT Command
    • FC Command
    • HELP Command
    • HISTORY Command
• A EMS Support
  • Summary of SMF Events
  • Subsystem ID
  • Tokens in ZSMF and USMF Event Messages
    • SMF (ZSMF) Tokens
    • SMF (ASMF) Tokens
    • Standard Tokens
  • SMF Event Descriptions
    • Conditional Information
    • Contacting Your Service Provider
    • SMF Events
• B COUP and PUP Interfaces
  • Defining Processes in the OSCONFIG File
  • Execution States
  • Defining Storage Pools and Virtual Disks
    • Storage Pool Configuration
    • Virtual Disk Configuration
  • Managing Storage Pools
  • Obtaining Information
    • Process Information
    • Storage Pool Information
  • DSC/COUP Commands
    • PROCESS Attribute Set
    • ADD Command
    • ALTER Command
    • ASSUME Command
    • DELETE Command
    • INFO Command
    • SET Command
    • START Command
    • STATUS Command
    • STOP Command
  • PUP Commands
    • Controlling Process States
    • Storage Pool Attribute Set
    • Virtual Disk Attribute Set
    • ALLOWOPENS Command
    • DEFINEPOOL Command
    • DEFINEVIRTDISK Command
    • DEISOLATE Command
    • DELETEPOOL Command
    • DELETEVIRTDISK Command
    • DEQUARANTINE Command
    • DOWN Command
    • EXCLUDE Command
    • INCLUDE Command
    • ISOLATE Command
    • LISTDEV Commands
    • LISTDEV DISK Command
    • LISTDEV disk-or-volume-name Command
    • LISTDEV POOL Command
    • LISTDEV process-name Command
    • LISTDEV VIRTDISK Command
    • PRIMARY Command
    • QUARANTINE Command
    • REDEFINEPOOL Command
    • REDEFINEVIRTDISK Command
    • SHOWPOOL Command
    • SHOWVIRTDISK Command
    • STOPOPENS Command
    • UP Command
  • COUP and PUP Command Summary
  • COUP and PUP Prerequisite Summary
  • Comparing SCF With PUP
    • PUP Commands and Equivalent SCF Commands
    • PUP Object States and SCF Object States and Substates
• Glossary
• Index