Document Outline

• User Guide
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 Overview of HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
  • About HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
  • Features
  • What's new
  • System configuration
  • Process flow
  • Navigating the interface
  • Navigating help
• 2 Setting up HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
  • Configuring HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
  • Configuring your browser and Java for HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
    • About configuring browser settings
    • Checking management server name resolution
    • Disabling pop-up blocking for IE
    • Setting security options for using Internet Explorer
    • Setting security options for Firefox
    • Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 1.4.2 to link with other products
    • Setting the Java™ Web Start proxy Version 5.0 and 6.0 to link with other products
    • Configuring log output settings
    • Configuring JRE versions from JWS
    • Clearing the cache when upgrading HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
  • Logging in
  • Setting up security
    • About configuring security options
    • Setting a password policy
    • Setting automatic account locking
    • Setting a warning banner message
  • Downloading components
    • About downloading components
    • Downloading agents, CLI, and Host Data Collector files
  • Managing XP7 Command View AE licenses
    • About XP7 Command View AE license management
    • Registering an XP7 Command View AE license
    • Checking XP7 Command View AE license information
    • Information for checking the input history of license keys
  • Managing Remote Web Console licenses
    • About license key types
    • Installing a software application
    • Enabling a license
    • Disabling a license
    • Removing a software application
    • Updating license status
    • Viewing license information
    • License information on the License Keys window
• 3 Discovering, registering, and adding management targets
  • Setting up storage resources
  • Registering storage systems
    • About registering and removing a storage system
    • Prerequisites for registering a storage system
    • Registering a storage system
    • Changing storage system information
    • About acquiring the most recent storage system information
    • Acquiring the most recent storage system information
    • Operations available to SMI-S enabled storage systems
  • Registering hosts
    • About registering a host
    • Methods for registering hosts
    • Priority for acquiring the WWN
    • Registering hosts by using Host Data Collector
    • Registering hosts manually by specifying the WWN target
    • Registering hosts using host scan
    • Registering hosts using merge hosts
    • About changing host settings and information
    • Workflow for detecting hosts
    • Updating host information registered by using Host Data Collector
    • Changing settings for a manually registered host
    • Changing settings for a host registered by using Device Manager agent
    • About removing hosts and releasing associated resources
    • Removing hosts and releasing associated resources
• 4 Setting up users and access control
  • Setting up users and access control
  • About user accounts and controlling access to resources
  • Creating and managing user accounts
    • Creating a user account
    • User ID and password policies
    • Editing the profile for a user account
    • Editing your own user profile
    • Changing the password for a user account
    • Changing your own password
    • Changing permissions for a user account
    • Changing the lock status of user accounts
    • Configuring external authentication for users
    • Configuring external authentication for groups
  • Controlling access to resources
    • About access control
    • Access control examples
    • About resource groups
    • Prerequisites for creating resource groups
    • Creating resource groups
    • Editing a resource group
    • About user groups
    • User group roles
    • Custom roles
    • Required roles and resource groups by function
    • Creating user groups
    • Editing a user group
    • Assigning resource groups and roles to a user group
    • Changing a user’s user group
• 5 Provisioning storage
  • Creating a storage operating environment
  • Allocating storage
  • Creating and deleting volumes
    • About creating volumes
    • Notes on performing quick formats
    • Creating volumes
    • Create Volumes dialog box
    • About shredding volume data
    • Shredding volume data
    • About deleting unallocated volumes
    • Deleting unallocated volumes
    • About creating a LUSE volume
    • Creating a LUSE volume
    • About releasing a LUSE volume
    • Releasing a LUSE volume
  • Virtualizing external storage
    • About virtualizing and unvirtualizing volumes
    • Virtualizing volumes of a registered storage system
    • Discovering and virtualizing volumes of an unregistered storage system
    • Unvirtualizing volumes
    • Virtualize Volumes dialog box
  • Virtualizing storage capacity (THP/Smart)
    • About virtualizing storage capacity
    • Creating a THP/Smart pool
    • Create Pool dialog box
    • Verifying THP/Smart pool information
    • Expanding THP/Smart pools
    • Shrinking a THP/Smart pool
    • Modifying THP/Smart pool settings
    • Deleting THP/Smart pools
    • Expanding THP/Smart volumes
    • Reclaiming zero pages
  • Virtualizing storage tiers (Smart)
    • About virtualizing storage tiers
    • Manually starting or stopping the monitoring of Smart pools
    • Manually starting or stopping the tier relocation of Smart pools
    • Scheduling monitoring and tier relocation of Smart pools
    • Editing tier relocation for Smart volumes
    • Applying a tiering policy to Smart volumes
    • Customizing a tiering policy for Smart volumes
    • Notes on data placement profiles for Smart volumes
    • Creating a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Updating a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Editing a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Applying a data placement profile for Smart volumes
    • Scheduling data placement profiles for Smart volumes
    • Editing an external LDEV tiering rank for a Smart pool
  • Allocating and unallocating volumes
    • About allocating volumes
    • Volume allocation methods
    • Prerequisites for allocating volumes
    • Allocating volumes from general tasks
    • Allocating volumes to selected hosts
    • Allocating selected volumes to hosts
    • Allocating volumes to clustered hosts
    • Allocating volumes by using a keyword search
    • Allocating volumes by using a criteria search
    • Allocating volumes by using existing volume settings
    • Allocate Volumes dialog box
    • About clustered-host storage
    • Creating clustered-host storage
    • About unallocating volumes
    • Unallocating volumes from hosts
    • Unallocate volumes dialog box
  • Configuring Fibre Channel ports
    • Enabling LUN security on a port
    • Disabling LUN security on a port
    • Setting the data transfer speed on a Fibre Channel port
    • Setting the Fibre Channel port address
    • Setting the fabric switch
  • Managing LUN Paths
    • About LUN path management
    • Editing LUN paths
    • Editing the host mode and host mode options
    • Editing LUN paths when exchanging a failed HBA
    • Editing LUN paths when adding or exchanging an HBA
    • Removing LUN paths after adding an HBA
  • Replicating volumes
    • About replicating volumes (pair management)
    • Copy pair management operations
    • Adding command devices
    • Editing command devices
    • Defining copy pairs
    • Changing the status of a copy pair
• 6 Optimizing storage performance
  • About optimizing storage
  • About optimizing HBA configurations
    • Adding an HBA
  • Managing cache logical partitions
    • Creating a CLPR
    • Migrating resources to and from a CLPR
    • Editing the settings of an existing CLPR
    • Adjusting the cache capacity of a CLPR
    • Deleting a CLPR
  • Data mobility
    • About data mobility
    • Reports for logical groups displayed in the Mobility tab
    • Reports for THP/Smart pools displayed in the Mobility tab
    • Optimizing data placement in a logical group
    • Optimizing data placement in a THP/Smart pool
  • Data migration
    • About data migration
    • Notes on performing data migration
    • Conditions for data migration
    • Migrating data for volume performance
    • Migrating data to a different storage system
    • Migrate data dialog box
    • Prerequisites for migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system
    • Migrating data from an SMI-S enabled storage system to another storage system
• 7 Grouping resources
  • Managing logical groups
    • About logical groups
    • Creating logical groups
    • Viewing logical group reports
    • Editing logical groups
    • Performing operations from a logical group
    • Deleting logical groups
  • Managing storage tiers
    • About tier-based storage management
    • Values to ensure acceptable tier performance
    • Creating tiers
    • Expanding a tier
• 8 Managing storage system information
  • Managing resource labels
    • About managing resource labels
    • Editing resource labels
    • Searching resource labels
    • Importing storage system resource labels
  • Managing WWNs by using nicknames
    • About managing WWNs by using nicknames
    • Editing a WWN nickname
  • Searching XP7 Command View AE resources
    • About searching XP7 Command View AE resources
    • Keyword search
    • Criteria search
    • Criteria search dialog box
  • Generating resource reports
    • About generating reports
    • Exporting host information to a CSV file
    • Exporting logical group information to a CSV file
    • Exporting search results to a CSV file
    • Exporting access control information for resources to a CSV file
  • Using reports to verify system changes
    • Viewing a Remote Web Console report
    • Downloading and viewing a system configuration report
    • Displaying a report in the Reports window
    • Creating a configuration report
    • Deleting a configuration report
• 9 Managing tasks
  • About tasks
  • Customizing which tasks display in the global monitoring bar
  • Viewing CVAE task status
  • Rescheduling CVAE tasks waiting to be executed
  • Stopping running data migration or data placement profile tasks
  • Canceling scheduled CVAE tasks
  • Moving CVAE tasks to the CVAE Task History tab
  • Restarting a failed or stopped CVAE task
  • Viewing system task status
  • Managing system tasks
  • Troubleshooting system tasks
  • Viewing data collection task status
  • Restarting a data collection task
• 10 Monitoring managed resources and resolving alerts
  • Monitoring storage resources
  • Viewing information summaries
    • About checking system status in the dashboard
    • Accessing the dashboard
    • Customizing the dashboard
    • About the Storage Systems tree
    • Viewing current storage system information
    • Viewing MP Blade information
    • About the Hosts tree
    • Viewing current host information
  • Analyzing Continuous Access Journal performance
    • About analyzing Continuous Access Journal performance
    • Prerequisites for analyzing Continuous Access Journal performance
    • Monitoring Continuous Access Journal performance
    • Configuring network bandwidth for analysis
    • Metrics for Continuous Access Journal performance analysis
    • Analyzing Continuous Access Journal performance in wizard mode
    • Analyzing Continuous Access Journal performance in advanced mode
    • Exporting Continuous Access Journal performance reports
    • About refreshing Replication tab data
  • Managing alerts
    • About alerts
    • Confirming an alert
• 11 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • HP technical support
    • Subscription service
    • Documentation feedback
  • Related information
  • Conventions
• A Managing virtual storage machines
  • About managing resources by using virtual storage machines
  • Creating virtual storage machines
  • Allocating volumes to hosts by using virtual storage machine resources
  • Editing virtual storage machines
  • Deleting virtual storage machines
• B Managing storage resources that have virtual IDs
  • About managing storage resources that have virtual IDs
  • Displaying virtual ID information
  • Allocating volumes to hosts with virtual IDs
• C Linking related products
  • Launching other HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition products
    • About launching other HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition products
    • Starting related products
    • Starting Element Manager
• Glossary
• Index