Document Outline

• P4000 SAN Solution User Guide
• 1 Getting started
  • Using the CMC
    • Layout of the CMC
      • Navigation window
      • Tab window
      • Alarms window
    • Auto discover systems in the CMC
    • Logging in
    • Performing tasks in the CMC using the menu bar
  • Configuring systems to add to management groups
  • Using the Map View
    • Using the display tools
    • Using views and layouts
  • Setting preferences
    • Setting the font size and locale
    • Setting naming conventions
      • Changing naming conventions
  • Creating storage by using the Getting Started Launch Pad
    • Prerequisites
      • Finding storage systems
    • Configuring storage systems
    • Creating a volume using the wizard
    • Enabling server access to volumes
  • Finding storage systems after the first time
    • Controlling which storage systems appear in the CMC
    • Troubleshooting—Storage systems not found
      • Possible reasons for not finding storage systems
  • Setting up the CMC for remote support
• 2 Working with storage systems
  • Storage system configuration categories
    • Storage system configuration category definitions
  • Storage system tasks
    • Working with the storage system
    • Logging in to and out of storage systems
      • Automatic login
      • Logging out of a storage system
    • Changing the storage system hostname
    • Locating the storage system in a rack
  • Powering off or rebooting the storage system
    • Powering on or off, or rebooting storage systems with modular components
    • Rebooting the storage system
    • Powering off the storage system
  • Upgrading the SAN/iQ software on the storage system
    • Upgrading the CMC and storage systems
    • Setting upgrade preferences
    • Checking for available upgrades
    • Upgrading the CMC
      • Install upgrades and patch sets using the latest CMC on an earlier version of SAN/iQ software
      • Install upgrades and patch sets using earlier versions of the CMC
    • Upgrading storage systems in a management group or available storage systems
      • Monitoring upgrade progress
      • Reviewing the upgrade summary
  • Registering advanced features for a storage system
  • Determining volume and snapshot availability
  • Checking status of dedicated boot devices
    • Checking boot device status
      • Getting there
    • Replacing a dedicated boot device
• 3 Configuring RAID and Managing Disks
  • Getting there
  • Configuring and managing RAID
  • RAID Levels
  • Explaining RAID devices in the RAID setup report
    • RAID devices by RAID type
      • Virtual RAID devices
  • Planning the RAID configuration
    • Data protection
      • Using RAID for data redundancy
      • Using Network RAID in a cluster
    • Using disk RAID with Network RAID in a cluster
    • Mixing RAID configurations
  • Setting RAID rebuild rate
    • General guidelines for setting the RAID rebuild rate
    • Setting the RAID rebuild rate
  • Reconfiguring RAID
    • To reconfigure RAID
    • Configuring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives
  • Monitoring RAID status
    • Data reads and writes and RAID status
    • Data redundancy and RAID status
  • Managing disks
    • Getting there
    • Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab
    • Verifying disk status
      • Viewing disk status for the DL320s (NSM 2120)
      • Viewing disk status for the VSA
      • Viewing disk status for the HP LeftHand P4500 and HP P4500 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the HP LeftHand P4300 and HP P4300 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the HP P4800 and HP P4800 G2
      • Viewing disk status for the HP P4900 G2
  • Replacing a disk
    • Using Repair Storage System
    • Replacing disks in hot-swap storage systems
    • Preparing for a disk replacement
      • To prepare for disk replacement
      • Identify physical location of storage system and disk
      • Best practice checklist for single disk replacement in RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and RAID 6
    • Replacing a disk in a hot-swap storage system
      • Replace the disk
      • Physically replace the disk drive in the storage system
      • RAID rebuilding
• 4 Managing the network
  • Network best practices
  • Changing network configurations
  • Managing settings on network interfaces
    • TCP status tab
    • Changing speed and duplex settings
    • Changing NIC frame size
      • Jumbo frames
      • Editing the NIC frame size
    • Changing NIC flow control
  • The TCP/IP tab
    • Identifying the network interfaces
    • Pinging an IP address
      • To ping an IP address
  • Configuring the IP address manually
  • Using DHCP
  • Configuring network interface bonds
    • Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces
      • Supported bonds with 10 GbE
      • Unsupported bonds with 10 GbE
    • IP address for NIC bonds
    • NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings
    • How Active-Passive bonding works
      • Physical and logical interfaces
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Summary of NIC status during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive
    • How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Which physical interface is active
      • Summary of NIC states during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with link aggregation dynamic mode
    • How Adaptive Load Balancing works
      • Which physical interface is preferred
      • Which physical interface is active
      • Summary of NIC states during failover
      • Example network cabling topologies with Adaptive Load Balancing
    • Creating a NIC bond
      • Creating the bond
      • Verify communication setting for new bond
    • Viewing the status of a NIC bond
    • Deleting a NIC bond
  • Disabling a network interface
    • Configuring a disabled interface
  • Using a DNS server
    • DNS and DHCP
    • DNS and static IP addresses
    • Adding the DNS domain name
    • Adding the DNS server
    • Adding domain names to the DNS suffixes
    • Editing a DNS server
    • Editing a domain name in the DNS suffixes list
    • Removing a DNS server
    • Removing a domain suffix from the DNS suffixes list
  • Setting up routing
    • Adding routing information
    • Editing routing information
    • Deleting routing information
  • Configuring storage system communication
    • Selecting the interface used by the SAN/iQ software
    • Updating the list of manager IP addresses
• 5 Setting the date and time
  • Management group time
  • Getting there
  • Refreshing the management group time
  • Using NTP
    • Editing NTP servers
    • Deleting an NTP server
      • Delete an NTP server
    • Changing the order of NTP servers
  • Editing the date and time
  • Editing the time zone only
• 6 Administrative users and groups
  • Getting there
  • Managing administrative users
    • Default administrative user
      • Adding a new administrative user
    • Editing administrative users
      • Changing a user’s description
      • Changing a user’s password
      • Adding group membership to a user
      • Removing group membership from a user
      • Deleting an administrative user
  • Managing administrative groups
    • Default administrative groups
      • Adding administrative groups
        • What the permission levels mean
    • Editing administrative groups
      • Change the description of a group
      • Changing administrative group permissions
      • Adding users to an existing group
      • Removing users from a group
      • Deleting administrative groups
• 7 Monitoring the SAN
  • Monitoring SAN status
    • Configuring the SAN Status Page
    • Using the SAN Status Page
  • Alarms and events overview
  • Working with alarms
    • Filtering the alarms list
    • Viewing and copying alarm details
    • Viewing alarms in a separate window
    • Exporting alarm data to a .csv file
  • Configuring events
    • Changing the event retention period
    • Setting up remote log destinations
    • Viewing events in a separate window
  • Working with events
    • Viewing new events
    • Filtering the events list
      • Saving filter views
      • Deleting custom filters
    • Viewing event details
    • Copying events to the clipboard
    • Exporting event data to a .csv or .txt file
  • Setting up email notification
    • Setting up the email server
    • Setting up email recipients
  • Setting up SNMP
    • Enabling SNMP agents
      • Enabling the SNMP agent
      • Configuring access control for SNMP clients
        • Adding an SNMP client
        • Editing access control entries
        • Deleting access control entries
      • Disabling the SNMP agent
        • Disabling SNMP
    • Adding SNMP traps
      • Editing trap recipients
      • Removing trap recipients
      • Sending a test trap
      • Disabling SNMP traps
    • Using the SNMP MIBs
      • Installing the LeftHand Networks MIB
      • The supported MIBs
  • Running diagnostic reports
    • List of diagnostic tests
  • Generating a hardware information report
    • Saving a hardware information report
    • Hardware information report details
  • Using log files
    • Saving log files locally
    • Exporting the System Summary
    • Configuring a remote log and remote log destination
    • Editing remote log targets
    • Deleting remote logs
    • Exporting support logs
• 8 Working with management groups
  • Functions of management groups
  • Guide for management groups
  • Creating a management group
    • Creating a new management group
      • Create management group and add storage systems
      • Add administrative user
      • Set management group time
      • Set DNS server
      • Set up email for notification
      • Create cluster and assign a VIP
      • Create a volume and finish creating management group
      • Management group map view tab
    • Best practice for managers in a management group
  • Managers overview
    • Functions of managers
    • Managers and quorum
    • Regular managers and specialized managers
      • Failover Managers
      • Virtual Managers
  • Configuration Summary overview
    • Summary roll-up
    • Configuration guidance
      • Best practices
        • Volumes and snapshots
        • iSCSI sessions
        • Storage systems in the management group
        • Storage systems in the cluster
      • Reading the configuration summary
        • Optimal configurations
        • Configuration warnings
        • Configuration errors
  • Best Practice summary overview
    • Disk level data protection
      • Disk protection using RAID
      • Large single-system SATA cluster
      • Disk RAID Consistency
    • Cluster-level data protection
    • Volume-level data protection
    • Volume access
    • Systems running managers
    • Network bonding
    • Network bond consistency
    • Network flow control consistency
    • Network frame size consistency
  • Management group maintenance tasks
    • Logging in to a management group
      • Choosing which storage system to log in to
    • Logging out of a management group
    • Adding a storage system to an existing management group
    • Starting and stopping managers
      • Starting additional managers
      • Stopping managers
        • Implications of stopping managers
    • Editing a management group
      • Setting or changing the local bandwidth priority
        • Local bandwidth priority settings
      • Set or change local bandwidth priority
    • Saving management group configuration information
  • Safely shutting down a management group
    • Prerequisites
      • Shut down the management group
      • If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts
    • Start the management group back up
      • Restarted management group in maintenance mode
      • Manually change management group to normal mode
  • Removing a storage system from a management group
    • Prerequisites
      • Remove the storage system
  • Deleting a management group
    • Prerequisites
      • Delete the management group
    • Setting the management group version
• 9 Using specialized managers
  • Failover Manager
    • Planning the virtual network configuration
    • Failover Manager requirements
  • Using the Failover Manager on Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Installing the Failover Manager for Hyper-V Server
  • Using the Failover Manager for VMware
    • Installing the Failover Manager for ESX Server
    • Installing the Failover Manager using the OVF files with the VI Client
      • Configure the IP address and host name
      • Finishing up with VI Client
    • Installing the Failover Manager for VMware Server or VMware Workstation
      • Configuring the IP address and host name
    • Troubleshooting the Failover Manager on ESX Server
    • Uninstalling the Failover Manager from VMware ESX Server
  • Virtual manager
    • When to use a virtual manager
    • Disaster recovery using a virtual manager
      • Management group across two sites with shared data
      • Management group in a single location with two storage systems
    • Storage system maintenance using a virtual manager
    • Requirements for using a virtual manager
    • Configuring a cluster for disaster recovery
      • Configuration steps
    • Adding a virtual manager
    • Starting a virtual manager to regain quorum
    • Verifying virtual manager status
    • Stopping a virtual manager
    • Removing a virtual manager from a management group
• 10 Working with clusters
  • Clusters and storage systems
  • Creating a cluster
    • Cluster Map View
  • Monitoring cluster usage
  • Editing a cluster
    • Editing cluster properties
    • Editing iSNS servers
      • Preparing clients
    • Editing cluster VIP addresses
      • Preparing servers
      • Editing cluster VIPs from the Cluster Tasks menu
      • Editing cluster VIP addresses from the iSCSI Tasks menu
      • Removing the virtual IP address
    • Reconnecting volumes and applications after changing VIPs or iSNS servers
  • Maintaining storage systems in clusters
    • Adding a new storage system to a cluster
      • To add a storage system
    • Upgrading the storage systems in a cluster using cluster swap
      • To swap storage systems
    • Reordering storage systems in a cluster
    • Exchange a storage system in a cluster
    • Removing a storage system from a cluster
  • Troubleshooting a cluster
    • Auto Performance Protection
      • Auto Performance Protection and the VSA
      • Auto Performance Protection and other clusters
        • Checking storage system status
        • If status is Storage System Overloaded
        • If status is Storage System Inoperable
        • If these statuses recur
    • Repairing a storage system
      • Prerequisites
        • How repair storage system works
        • Using the repair storage system command
        • To return the repaired storage system to the cluster
  • Deleting a cluster
• 11 Provisioning storage
  • Understanding how the capacity of the SAN is used
  • Provisioning storage
  • Provisioning volumes
    • Full provisioning
    • Thin provisioning
      • Best practice for setting volume size
    • Planning data protection
      • Former terminology in release 8.1 and earlier
      • Data protection level
      • How data protection levels work
        • Network RAID-10 (2–Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-10+1 (3-Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-10+2 (4-Way Mirror)
        • Network RAID-5 (Single Parity)
        • Network RAID-6 (Dual Parity)
  • Provisioning snapshots
    • Snapshots versus backups
    • The effect of snapshots on cluster space
    • Managing capacity using volume size and snapshots
      • Volume size and snapshots
      • Schedules to snapshot a volume and capacity
      • Deleting snapshots
  • Ongoing capacity management
    • Number of volumes and snapshots
    • Reviewing SAN capacity and usage
      • Cluster use summary
      • Volume use summary
      • System Use summary
    • Measuring disk capacity and volume size
      • Block systems and file systems
      • Storing file system data on a block system
    • Changing the volume size on the server
      • Increasing the volume size in Microsoft Windows
      • Increasing the volume size in other environments
    • Changing configuration characteristics to manage space
• 12 Using volumes
  • Volumes and server access
    • Prerequisites
  • Planning volumes
    • Planning how many volumes
    • Planning volume types
  • Guide for volumes
  • Creating a volume
    • Creating a basic volume
    • Configuring advanced volume settings [optional]
      • Configuring advanced volume settings
  • Volumes map view
  • Editing a volume
    • To edit a volume
      • Changing the volume description
      • Changing the cluster—migrating a volume to a different cluster
      • Changing the data protection level
      • Changing the size
  • Deleting a volume
    • Restrictions on deleting volumes
    • Prerequisites
    • To delete the volume
      • To delete multiple volumes
• 13 Using snapshots
  • Types of snapshots
    • Uses and best practices for snapshots
  • Planning snapshots
    • Prerequisites for application-managed snapshots
  • Creating snapshots
    • Editing a snapshot
  • Scheduling snapshots
    • Best practices for scheduling snapshots of volumes
    • Requirements for snapshot schedules
    • Scheduling snapshots for volume sets
    • Creating a schedule to snapshot a volume
      • Editing scheduled snapshots
      • Pausing and resuming scheduled snapshots
      • Deleting schedules to snapshot a volume
      • Scripting snapshots
  • Mounting a snapshot
    • Mounting the snapshot on a host
    • Making a Windows application-managed snapshot available
    • Managing snapshot temporary space
      • Convert the temporary space to access data
      • Delete the temporary space
  • Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
    • Rolling back a volume to a snapshot or clone point
      • Continue with standard roll back
      • Create a new SmartClone volume from the snapshot
      • Roll back all associated volumes
      • Cancel the rollback operation
  • Deleting a snapshot
• 14 SmartClone volumes
  • What are SmartClone volumes?
    • Prerequisites
    • SmartClone volume terminology
    • Example scenarios for using SmartClone volumes
      • Deploy multiple virtual or boot-from-SAN servers
        • Scenario: Computer training lab
      • Safely use production data for test, development, and data mining
        • Test and development
        • Data mining
      • Clone a volume
  • Planning SmartClone volumes
    • Space requirements
    • Naming convention for SmartClone volumes
      • Naming and multiple identical disks in a server
    • Server access
  • Defining SmartClone volume characteristics
  • Naming SmartClone volumes
  • Shared versus individual characteristics
  • Clone point
  • Shared snapshot
  • Creating SmartClone volumes
  • To create a SmartClone volume
  • Viewing SmartClone volumes
    • Map view
      • Using views
      • Viewing clone points, volumes, and snapshots
  • Editing SmartClone volumes
    • To edit the SmartClone volumes
  • Deleting SmartClone volumes
    • Deleting the clone point
    • Deleting multiple SmartClone volumes
• 15 Working with scripting
  • Scripting documentation
• 16 Controlling server access to volumes
  • Change in server access control from version 7.0 and earlier
  • Adding server connections to management groups
    • Prerequisites
    • Guide for servers
    • Adding a server connection
  • Managing server connections
    • Editing server connections
    • Deleting server connections
  • Clustering server connections
    • Requirements for clustering servers
    • Creating a server cluster
    • Server cluster map view
    • Working with a server cluster
      • Editing a server cluster
    • Deleting a server cluster
  • Assigning server connections access to volumes
    • Assigning server connections from a volume
    • Assigning volumes from a server connection
    • Editing server connection and volume assignments
  • Completing the iSCSI Initiator and disk setup
    • Persistent targets or favorite targets
    • HP P4000 DSM for MPIO settings
    • Disk management
• 17 Monitoring performance
  • Prerequisites
  • Introduction to using performance information
    • What can I learn about my SAN?
      • Current SAN activities example
      • Workload characterization example
    • Fault isolation example
  • What can I learn about my volumes?
    • Most active volumes examples
    • Activity generated by a specific server example
  • Planning for SAN improvements
    • Network utilization to determine if NIC bonding could improve performance example
    • Load comparison of two clusters example
    • Load comparison of two volumes example
  • Accessing and understanding the Performance Monitor window
    • Performance Monitor toolbar
    • Performance monitor graph
    • Performance monitor table
    • Understanding the performance statistics
  • Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters
  • Performance monitoring and analysis concepts
    • Workloads
    • Access type
    • Access size
    • Access pattern
    • Queue depth
  • Changing the sample interval and time zone
  • Adding statistics
    • Viewing statistic details
  • Removing and clearing statistics
    • Removing a statistic
    • Clearing the sample data
    • Clearing the display
    • Resetting defaults
  • Pausing and restarting monitoring
  • Changing the graph
    • Hiding and showing the graph
    • Displaying or hiding a line
    • Changing the color or style of a line
    • Highlighting a line
    • Changing the scaling factor
  • Exporting data
    • Exporting statistics to a CSV file
    • Saving the graph to an image file
• 18 Registering advanced features
  • Evaluation period for using advanced features
    • Starting the evaluation period
    • Backing out of Remote Copy evaluation
  • Scripting evaluation
    • Turn on scripting evaluation
    • Turn off scripting evaluation
  • Registering advanced features
    • Using license keys
    • Registering available storage systems for license keys
    • Registering storage systems in a management group
  • Saving and editing your customer information
• 19 iSCSI and the HP P4000 SAN Solution
  • Number of iSCSI sessions
  • Virtual IP addresses
    • Requirements for using a virtual IP address
  • iSNS server
  • iSCSI load balancing
    • Requirements
      • Compliant iSCSI initiators
  • Authentication (CHAP)
    • Requirements for configuring CHAP
  • iSCSI and CHAP terminology
    • Sample iSCSI configurations
    • Best practice
  • About HP DSM for MPIO
• 20 Using the Configuration Interface
  • Connecting to the Configuration Interface
    • Establishing a terminal emulation session on a Windows system
    • Establishing a terminal emulation session on a Linux/UNIX system
    • Opening the Configuration Interface from the terminal emulation session
  • Logging in to the Configuration Interface
  • Configuring administrative users
  • Configuring a network connection
  • Deleting a NIC bond
  • Setting the TCP speed, duplex, and frame size
  • Removing a storage system from a management group
  • Resetting the storage system to factory defaults
• 21 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
  • HP Insight Remote Support Software
  • New and changed information in this edition
  • Related information
    • HP websites
  • Customer self repair
• A Replacing hardware
  • Replacing disks and rebuilding data
    • Replacing disks
      • Verify the storage system is not running a manager
      • Repair the storage system
    • Rebuilding data
      • Reconfigure RAID
    • Returning the storage system to the cluster
      • Restarting a manager
      • Adding the repaired storage system to cluster
    • Rebuilding volume data
      • Controlling server access
    • Removing the ghost storage system
      • Returning the failed disk
  • Replacing the RAID controller
    • Verifying component failure
    • Removing the RAID controller
    • Installing the RAID controller
    • Verifying proper operation
• B Third-party licenses
• C SANiQ TCP and UDP Port Usage
• Glossary
• Index